We estimate the impacts that alternative national and sub-national economic incentive structures for reducing emissions from deforestation (REDD+) in Indonesia would have had on greenhouse gas emissions and national and local revenue if they had been in place from 2000-2005. The impact of carbon...

The present paper attempts to examine the impact of nature based tourism in Meghalaya on the income and employment. Nature based tourism has important impact on the welfare of the local people of Meghalaya, especially women who have been engaged in various tourism related activities along with...

We evaluate the effect of information disclosure on players? behaviour in a multiperiod common pool resource game experiment run in an area of notably scarce social capital such as the Nairobi slum of Kibera. We document divergence of average withdrawal rates across time with an increasingly...

Se analiza la influencia de los diferentes modelos económicos sobre la utilización de los recursos naturales de Latinoamérica desde una perspectiva histórica, con un énfasis en los productos de exportación. En primer lugar, se aporta una breve mirada histórica al tema: cómo las...

Die Nachfrage nach Lebensmitteln, die gemäß ökologischen Richtlinien erzeugt werden, wächst kontinuierlich. Die heimische Erzeugung kann mit dieser Entwicklung nicht Schritt halten. Dafür stellen zu wenige Bauern auf eine ökologische Landwirtschaft um. Für die Marktversorgung in...

Quotas or permits are frequently used in the management of renewable resources and emissions. However, in many industries there is concern about the basic eectiveness of quotas due to non-compliance. We develop an enforcement model of a quota-regulated resource and focus on a situation with...

El presente artículo tuvo como objetivo comparar metodologías de análisis desde los sistemas complejos que involucraran elementos sociales y naturales en interacción entre sí y a diferentes escalas, para ser aplicadas en el estudio de proyectos forestales de captura de carbono. Este tipo de...

This article performs an analysis of the relationship that exists between economic growth and the environment in the 32 states of the Mexican Republic. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) suggests that there is indeed a relationship between economic growth and the environment. As economies...

Sustainable development remains high on the international agenda, even as policy makers are distracted by the political and fiscal fall-out of the global financial crisis. Its continued prominence is illustrated by various countries use of fiscal stimulus to fast-track the greening of the...