The worsening degradation of natural resources urgently requires the adoption ofmore sustainable management practices. This need has led to growing interest andinvestment in monitoring systems for tracking the condition of natural resources.Although grounded in concepts of sustainability, the...

The calorie-income demand elasticity is an important parameter in thedevelopment literature and in the policy arena. Yet, there is very little evidence on theextent to which it can be considered as an unchanging parameter or a time-shiftingparameter that, for example, changes with the economic...

This paper synthesizes the results of five studies using household panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico and Russia, which examine the extent to which households are able through formal and/or informal arrangements to insure their consumption from specific economic shocks and...