Protected areas represent a powerful policy tool for the preservation of ecosystems and their services. The rapid … poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … area occupied by a protected area established between 1992 and 2000 exhibited differentially greater levels of poverty …

and labour market outcomes are also analysed, including how these relate to changes in the economy and migration policy …

activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …

share of migrants’ income whose payment is deferred. The maximization also takes into account the impact of the policy on … solves for the policy measures, the overstaying probability, and the level of illegal migration. The paper concludes that the … optimal policy is a combination of Mode IV-type and permanent migration. …

been influential in formulating a strict drug policy in many western countries. Individual differences in proneness and … different policy implications. We propose a Bayesian estimation and predictive framework to analyze the effects and relative … importance of previous cannabis use, proneness and accessibility factors on hard drug initiation and to explore potential policy …

Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and … malleable at later ages. This has important implications for the design of policy. The gaps in skills and abilities open up …