The Environment for Development initiative
The overall objective of the EfD initiative is to support poverty alleviation and sustainable development through the increased use of environmental economics in the policy making process. The EfD initiative is a capacity building program in environmental economics, focusing on research, policy advice, and teaching in Central America, China, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania.
Most recent publications
- eeu sweden | Climate change Policy design Taxes, permits and costly policy response to technological change In this paper, we analyze the effects of the choice of price (taxes) versus quantity (tradable permits) instruments on the policy response to technological change. We show that if policy responses incur transactional and political adjustment costs, environmental targets are less likely to be adjusted under tradable permits than under emission taxes. This implies that the total level of abatement over time might remain unchanged under tradable permits while it will increase under emission taxes. Coria, J. and M. Hennlock. 2012. Taxes, permits and costly policy response to technological change, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 14:(1):35-60.
- eeu sweden | Policy design Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management This book by Thomas Sterner and Jessica Coria is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it discusses the design of instruments that can be employed in any country in a wide range of contexts, including transportation, industrial pollution, water pricing, waste, fisheries, forests, and agriculture. Sterner, Thomas, Jessica Coria, Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management(2011). Routledge. Published by RFF Press.
- china Getting their voices heard: Three cases of public participation in environmental protection in China By comparing three cases of environmental activism in China, our paper answers the following three questions about public participation in environment protection in China: (1) what are the drivers for public participation, (2) who are the agents leading the participation, and (3) do existing laws facilitate public participation? Wanxin Li, Jieyan Liu, and Duoduo Li. 2012. Getting their voices heard: Three cases of organizing for environmental protection. Journal of Environmental Management (doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2011.12.019).
- kenya | Policy design Environmental goods collection and children’s schooling: evidence from Kenya This paper presents an empirical study of schooling attendance and collection of environmental resources using cross-sectional data from Kiambu District of Kenya. Ndiritu Simon Wagura and Wilfred Nyangena, 2011, "Environmental goods collection and children's schooling: evidence from Kenya" Regional Environmental Change, 2011, vol. 11, No. 3, pp 531-42.
News
2012-01-24
RFF Activities in Human Cooperation to Manage Natural Resources (COMMONS) program 2011
This is a brief report on Resources for the Future’s use of the Swedish Research Council, Formas, [...]
2012-01-20
New edition:Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management
This book by Thomas Sterner and Jessica Coria is an attempt to encourage more widespread and [...]
2012-01-13
Sterner on CNBC Africa/ABN tv show: "Fuel Taxes on the Poor"
Thomas Sterner was interviewed in a tv-show on CNBC Africa/ABN yesterday at 17.30. The show, [...]
Calendar
2012-02-23
Collaborative Research Workshop on Energy and Household Welfare
This is a closed meeting. Only selected delegates will be able to participate.
2012-04-25
Call for session speakers on First world congress of Biodiversity 2012
BIT Congress will be launching the First Annual World Congress of Biodiversity- 2012 (BioD-2012) [...]
2012-06-19
International Energy Workshop
Call for papers: Deadline for submission: February 1st, 2012. The 31st edition of the International [...]
