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Shade-Grown Coffee: Simulation and Policy Analysis for Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico

Blackman, Allen; Albers, Heidi; Batz, Michael; … - 2005

Shade-grown coffee provides a livelihood to many farmers, protects biodiversity, and creates environmental services. Many shade-coffee farmers have abandoned production in recent years, however, in response to declines in international coffee prices. This paper builds a farmer decision model...

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Shade-Grown Coffee : Simulation and Policy Analysis for Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico

Batz, Michael B. - 2014

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Clean Technological Change in Developing-Country Industrial Clusters: Mexican Leather Tanning

Blackman, Allen; Kildegaard, Arne - 2003

-enhancing technological change. We also find that private-sector trade associations and input suppliers are important sources of technical …

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Does Tourism Eco-Certification Pay? Costa Rica’s Blue Flag Program

Blackman, Allen; Naranjo, María Angélica; Robalino, Juan - 2012

defined environmental standards—promise to help address this problem by creating a private-sector system of inducements … private benefits, and fixed effects and propensity score matching to control for self-selection bias. We find that past Blue … regression samples. These findings provide some of the first evidence that eco-certification can generate private benefits for …

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Does Tourism Eco-Certification Pay? Costa Rica's Blue Flag Program

Blackman, Allen - 2012

meet defined environmental standards — promise to help address this problem by creating a private-sector system of … proxy for private benefits, and fixed effects and propensity score matching to control for self-selection bias. We find that … private benefits for tourism operators in developing countries and therefore has the potential to improve their environmental …

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User Financing in a National Payments for Environmental Services Program: Costa Rican Hydropower

Blackman, Allen; Woodward, Richard T. - 2009

largest private sector contributors. Large hydroelectric plants tend to contribute while small ones do not. The weight of …

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User Financing in a National Payments for Environmental Services Program: Costa Rican Hydropower

Blackman, Allen; Woodward, Richard T. - 2009

largest private sector contributors. Large hydroelectric plants tend to contribute while small ones do not. The weight of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005442505

User Financing in a National Payments for Environmental Services Program : Costa Rican Hydropower

Blackman, Allen; Woodward, Richard T. - 2010

largest private sector contributors. Large hydroelectric plants tend to contribute while small ones do not. The weight of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210386

Maquiladoras, Air Pollution, and Human Health in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso

Blackman, Allen; Batz, Michael; Evans, David - 2003

Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, is home to the U.S.–Mexico border’s largest maquiladora labor force, and also its worst air pollution. We marshal two types of evidence to examine the link between maquiladoras and air pollution in Ciudad Juárez, and in its sister city, El Paso, Texas. First, we...

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Does Eco-Certification Have Environmental Benefits? Organic Coffee in Costa Rica

Blackman, Allen; Naranjo, Maria A. - 2010

Eco-certification of coffee, timber and other high-value agricultural commodities is increasingly widespread. In principle, it can improve commodity producers’ environmental performance, even in countries where state regulation is weak. However, evidence needed to evaluate this hypothesis is...

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