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Fortaleciendo las capacidades de los productores del café ambientalmente amigable
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Departamento de Agricultura y Agroforestería, 2021)
Los objetivos de este son: 1) Apoyar a familias y empresas cafetaleras a buscar opciones de producción integral que sean amigables con el ambiente y viables económicamente 2) Impulsar vínculos interinstitucionales entre ...
Strategic Research Agenda on Environment for Development
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2016-02)
Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
(2018)
To reduce SDG tradeoffs in infrastructure provision, and to inform searches for SDG synergies, the authors show that roads’ impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests varied significantly across fron-tiers. Impacts varied predictably ...
The Effect of Hydro-Meteorological Emergencies on Internal Migration
(Elsevier, Amsterdam (Paises Bajos), 2015-03)
We estimate the effect of hydro-meteorological emergencies on internal migration in Costa Rica during 1995–2000. We find that, on average, emergencies significantly increase average migration. However, we also find that ...
Local Community Characteristics and Cooperation for Shared Green Reputation
(2016-01)
This article examines how basic socioeconomic and political factors are associated with higher levels of cooperation to garner a local community’s shared green reputation. We analyze panel data on participation efforts 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 ...
Trade, Domestic Frictions, and Scale Effects
(2016-10)
Because of scale effects, idea-based growth models imply that larger countries should be much richer than smaller ones. New trade models share the same counterfactual feature. In fact, new trade models exhibit other ...
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 ...
Marine protected areas in Costa Rica: How do artisanal fishers respond?
(2017)
Costa Rica is considering expanding their marine protected areas (MPAs) to conserve marine resources. Due to the importance of households’ responses to an MPA in defining the MPA’s ecological and economic outcomes, this ...