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The evidence base for environmental and socioeconomic impacts of "sustainable" certification
(Environment for Development, 2010-03)
Initiatives certifying that farms and firms adhere to predefined environmental and social welfare production standards are increasingly popular. According to proponents, they create financial incentives for farms and firms ...
Determinants of Performance of Drinking-Water Community Organizations
(Environment for Development, 2010-02)
This paper presents an institutional analysis of the underlying factors affecting the performance of drinking-water community organizations in rural areas of Costa Rica. These organizations provide water to more than 60 ...
Papaya ringspot virus and cucumber mosaic virus associated with a severe mosaic in melon
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), San José (Costa Rica), 1991-07)
Los virus mancha anular de la papaya o "papaya ringspot virus" (PRSV)y mosaico del pepino o "cucumber mosaic virus" (CMV) fueron asociados con un mosaico severo en el caso de infecciones simples y mixtas en plantas de melón ...
Paying the price of sweetening your donation: evidence from a natural field experiment
(Environment for Development, 2010-02)
Using a natural field experiment in a recreational site, a public good almost fully dependent on voluntary donations, we explored the crowding-out effect of gift rewards. First, we investigated whether receiving a map in ...
Siting Marine Protected Areas with Area Targets Protecting Rural Incomes, Fish Stocks, and Turtles in Costa Rica
(2020-04)
With many countries seeking to increase the area conserved in marine protected areas (MPAs) to achieve the Convention on Biodiversity’s protected area targets by 2020, we employ a bioeconomic model to determine which ...
Anonymity, reciprocity,and conformity: evidence from voluntary contributions to a national park in Costa Rica
(Environment for Development, 2008)
We investigate the role of anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity for voluntary contributions, based on a natural fieldexperiment conducted at a national park in Costa Rica. Contributions made in public in front of the ...
Forecast models of coffee leaf rust symptoms and signs based on identified microclimatic combinations in coffee-based agroforestry systems in Costa Rica
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2019)
Coffee leaf rust is a polycyclic disease that causes severe epidemics impacting yield over several years. For this reason, since the 1960s, more than 20 models have been developed to predict different indicators of the ...
A common framework to model recovery in disturbed tropical forests
(Elsevier, 2023-06-11)
Despite their exceptional biodiversity and carbon stocks, more than 80% of tropical forests are disturbed. However, a lot of interrogations remain around the ability of vegetation attributes in tropical forests to recover ...