Community-based natural resource management has become central to international conservation efforts in recent decades, as part of a pro-poor environmental agenda (Adams et al. 2004; Berkes 2007). The goal is to simultaneously improve local welfare and provide incentives for conservation through...

During the last three decades northern La Paz has experienced the arrival of migrants establishing settlements and clearing forest lands for agriculture. Increasing forest conversion for agricultural projects is the basis of several national and local government development schemes. Today, the...

2,The Patagonian Marine Ecosystem (PME) is one of the most productive ecosystems in the world, with important commercial straddling stocks such as the Argentine short-fin squid, the common squid, the Argentine hake, the southern blue whiting and the Patagonian toothfish. These resources are...

This paper proposes the use of stated preference techniques for analyzing regulation and negotiation schemes in a specific mangrove forest in northwest Mexico. This proposal will help people involved in environmental management simulate the welfare outcomes for society that may result under...

We analyze the use of forest products and services for income generation among indigenous households in the Colombian Amazon. We find that families rely on a wide portfolio of market and subsistence activities. These activities change when households have increased access to markets, and as...

a pesca recreativa es una de las actividades de turismo de intereses especiales más relevantes en la región de Aysén. Para la toma de decisiones vinculadas al uso, manejo y conservación de los ambientes naturales donde se pueden desarrollar actividades de turismo, es importante disponer de...

The general objective of this study is to empirically test the causal effect of the Costa Rican PES program on forest cover at various scales by combining secondary data on biophysical factors and socio-economic characteristics using program evaluation techniques, and by having access to...

The rapid increase in energy demand in Chile requires a choice for additional production between different kinds of energy sources currently available to the country. Current projects to develop large dams for hydropower in Chilean Patagonia impose an environmental price by damaging the natural...

This paper aims to assess the long-term effects of global climate change on Brazilian agriculture. In particular, it will address the following questions: (i) What are the long-term effects of global climate change in terms of land values in the distinct Brazilian biomes?; and (ii) do these...

This research is aimed at an empirical examination of the institutional developments that have occurred in Afro-Colombian communities after the change of a property right regime. We surveyed community leaders to understand whether these communities have succeeded in designing and implementing...