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Seminario agroquímicos : memoria de los trabajos presentados en el seminario - taller de aplicación aérea de agroquímicos
(CATIE, Panamá (Panamá), 1988)Recopila los trabajos presentados en el Seminario-Taller sobre Aplicación Aérea de Agroquímicos, realizado en la Ciudad de Panamá, República de Panamá, entre el 24 y 26 de febrero de 1988. El evento se dirigió principalmente ... -
Impactos del cambio climático sobre los recursos hídricos
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2008)El cambio climático es una realidad que continuará en forma más extrema y el ser humano solo tiene dos opciones: reducir las causas que lo originan y desarrollar acciones que le permitan adaptarse a tales cambios. La ... -
Don't tell me what to do, tell me who to follow!: field experiment evidence on voluntary donations
(Environment for Development, 2010-06)We conducted a field experiment in a protected area to explore the effects of conformity to a social reference versus a comparable, but imposed, suggested donation. As observed before, we see visitors conforming to the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Conservation policies and labor markets: unraveling the effects of national parks on local wages in Costa Rica
(Environment for Development, 2010)Despite the global environmental benefits of increasing the amount of protected areas, how these conservation policies affect the well-being of nearby individuals is still under debate. Using household surveys with highly ...
