Browsing by Subject "BIENES PUBLICOS"
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Context Matters: Exploring the Cost-effectiveness of Fixed Payments and Procurement Auctions for PES
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2018-04)Successfully implemented payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs can provide both conservation of nature and financial support to rural communities. In this paper, we explore how PES programs can be designed so as ... -
Do entrance fees crowd out donations for public goods? Evidence from a protected area in Costa Rica
(Cambridge University, Cambridge (Reino Unido), 2014-06-30)In this paper, we investigate how different levels of entrance fees affect donations for a public good, a natural park. To explore this issue, we conducted a stated preference study focusing on visitors’ preferences for ... -
Economic valuation of the ecosystem services provided by the mangroves of the Gulf of Nicoya using a hybrid methodology.
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2021)Due to the public good nature of many of mangrove’s ecosystem services, markets for them do not exist and there is limited potential to manage them with conventional markets. Moreover, because of the difficulties in ... -
Reputation and Household Recycling Practices: Field Experiments in Costa Rica.
(2013-12)Pro-environmental behavior is the willingness to cooperate and contribute to environmental public goods. A good understanding of why individuals undertake pro-environmental actions is important in order to construct policies ... -
Unintended Effects of Targeting an Environmental Rebate
(Springer, Berlín (Alemania), 2015)When designing schemes such as conditional cash transfers or payments for ecosystem services, the choice of whom to select and whom to exclude is critical.We incentivize and measure actual contributions to an environmental ...