Francisco Alpízar
Dr. Francisco Alpízar
Director and Senior Research Fellow
falpizar@catie.ac.cr
tel.+506-2558 2215 / 2624
EfD-Central America
Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Research Program in Governance and Socioeconomics of Environmental Goods and Services (GSEBSA), CATIE Headquarters, CATIE 7170,
Cartago, Turrialba 30501,
Costa Rica
tel.+506 2558 2624
fax.+506 2558 2625
Francisco Alpízar is Director and senior research fellow of the Environment and Development initiative Center for Central America. He is also Deputy Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (www.laceep.org). His fields of specialization include environmental policy making and economic valuation of the environment. He has also done some work on experimental economics applied to policy design. Recently, his work has been focused on sustainable management and funding of protected areas, including both entrance fees and donations, as well as the interaction of communities and economies that interact with a given conservation effort. He has also been involved in the design of Coasian schemes to internalize the external effects (negative and positive) of watershed management for the provision of ecosystem services. Francisco has been a consultant to the GEF-World Bank, the IDB, UNDP, WWF, IUCN and The Nature Conservancy, among others. He has been invited as a lecturer to universities in Sweden, the US, Costa Rica and Colombia.
Expertise/Research area:
Design and application of economic policy instruments to environmental problems in developing countries.
Environmental valuation methods (Contingent Valuation Method and Choice experiments): applications and performance evaluations
Design, financing and evaluation of mechanisms for Payment for Ecosystem Services
Management and funding of natural protected areas
Applications of experimental and behavioral economics
Researchers
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