Working paper by Andrea Mannberg, Eyerusalem Siba on 16 Sep 2014
Land tenure security has long been touted as key to increased performance of the agricultural sector in developing countries. This paper utilizes household level panel data to analyse the impact … read more »
Working paper by Simon Dietz, Bruno Lanz, Tim Swanson on 15 Sep 2014
Modern agriculture relies on a small number of highly productive crops and the continued expansion of agricultural land area has led to a significant loss of biodiversity. In this paper … read more »
Working paper by Caterina Gennaioli, Stefania Lovo, Alberto Alesina on 11 Sep 2014
We show that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively correlated with the degree of ethnic fractionalization of the communities. We explore several channels that may link the two … read more »
Working paper by Lykke Andersen, Ugur Bilge, Ben Groom, David Gutierrez, Evan Killick, Juan Carlos Ledezma, Charles Palmer on 9 Sep 2014
Policy interventions designed to simultaneously stem deforestation and reduce poverty in tropical countries entail complex socio-environmental trade-offs. A hybrid model, comprising an optimising, agricultural household model integrated into the ‘shell’ … read more »
Working paper by Stefania Lovo, Michael Gasiorek, Richard Tol on 11 Aug 2014
This paper investigates the relationship between investment in new and second-hand capital goods and energy intensity. read more »
Working paper by Swenja Surminski, Jeroen Aerts, Wouter Botzen, Paul Hudson, Jaroslav Mysiak, Carlos Dionisio Pérez-Blanco on 4 Aug 2014
Reflection on the current debate on how to link flood insurance and disaster risk reduction in the European Union read more »
Working paper by Simon Dietz, Bruno Lanz, Tim Swanson on 29 Jul 2014
Global population growth, technology, and Malthusian constraints: a quantitative growth theoretic perspective read more »
Working paper by Emanuele Campiglio on 15 Jul 2014
It is widely acknowledged that introducing a price on carbon represents a crucial precondition for filling the current gap in low-carbon investment. However, as this paper argues, carbon pricing in … read more »
Working paper by Lindsay Stringer, Andy Dougill on 6 Jul 2014
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Zimbabwe has a long and varied history within a complex and dynamic governance system. Significant amounts of research have critiqued the successes and failures of Zimbabwe’s CBNRM programme – the Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resource Use (CAMPFIRE) – across its three decades of implementation. Past research has […]
Working paper by Claire Quinn, Peter Minang, Lalisa Duguma on 1 Jul 2014
There are diverse lessons that subnational projects designed to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) should learn from previous or existing integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs). An empirical understanding of how ICDP lessons on community engagement could inform REDD+ implementation is necessary especially if REDD+ policies/projects are to achieve effective forest resource […]
