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Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
(2017-10-09)
To inform the search for SDG synergies in infrastructure provision, and to reduce SDG tradeoffs, the authors show that road impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests have varied significantly across settings. Forest loss varied ...
Costa Rica: National level assessment of the role of economic instruments in the conservation policymix
(2015-11-03)
POLICYMIX aims to contribute to achieving the EUs goals of reversing trends in biodiversity loss beyond 2010 through the use of cost-effective and incentive compatible economic instruments. POLICYMIX focuses on the role ...
Paper park performance: Mexico’s natural protected areas in the 1990s
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2015-01)
Although developing countries have established scores of new protected areas over the past three decades, they often amount to little more than ‘‘paper parks’’ that are chronically short of the financial, human, and technical ...
Are government incentives effective for avoided deforestation in the tropical Andean forest?
(Asim Zia, University of Vermont, (Estados Unidos), 2018)
In order to ensure the provision of goods and services from forests, many governments have promoted less-traditional conservation initiatives such as programs of payments for ecosystem services called, more broadly, direct ...
Spillovers from Conservation Programs
(Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, California (Estados Unidos), 2017-10)
Conservation programs have increased significantly, as has the evaluation of their impacts. However, the evaluation of their potential impacts beyond program borders has been scarce. Such spillovers can significantly reduce ...
Heterogeneous Local Spillovers from Protected Areas in Costa Rica
(2017)
Spillovers can significantly reduce or enhance the net effects of land-use policies, yet there exists little rigorous evidence concerning their magnitudes. We examine how Costa Rica’s national parks affect deforestation ...
Evaluating Interactions of Forest Conservation Policies on Avoided Deforestation
(2015)
We estimate the effects on deforestation that have resulted from policy interactions between parks and payments and between park buffers and payments in Costa Rica between 2000 and 2005. We show that the characteristics ...
Direct and Indirect Effects of Extreme Weather Events and Potential Estimation Biases
(2015-11)
The literature analyzing the effects of extreme weather events on social and economic outcomes has increased significantly in the last few years. Most of these analyses use either self-reported data about whether the storm ...
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 ...