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A "Delphi Exercise" as a Tool in Amazon Rainforest Valuation
Carson, Richard T.; Navrud, Stale; Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel; … - 2014
The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest and most biodiverse, represents a global public good of which 15 percent has already been lost. The worldwide value of preserving the remaining forest is today unknown. A "Delphi" exercise was conducted involving more than 200 environmental valuation...
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Conserving Wildlife through Demand Reduction and Supply Alternatives
Cisse, Abdoulaye; Englander, Gabriel; Ingram, Daniel J. - 2025
study explores the impacts of demand and supply-side interventions on wild meat consumption through two randomized control … view either a treatment video discouraging wild meat consumption or a control video unrelated to wild meat. Treatment group … subjects are 31% less likely to order wild meat than control group subjects, though this difference is not statistically …
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How the Location of Roads and Protected Areas Affects Deforestation in North Thailand
Cropper, Maureen L.; Griffiths, Charles; Puri, Jyotsna - 2001
Using plot-level data, the authors estimate a bi-variate probit model to explain land clearing, and the siting of protected areas in North Thailand in 1986. Their model suggests that protected areas (national parks, together with wildlife sanctuaries) did not reduce the likelihood of forest...
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Vy??ghranomics in Space and Time : Estimating Habitat Threats for Bengal, Indochinese, Malayan and Sumatran Tigers
Dasgupta, Susmita; Hammer, Dan; Kraft, Robin - 2013
As the wild tiger population in tropical Asia dropped from about 100,000 to 3,500 in the last century, the need to conserve tiger habitats poses a challenge for the Global Tiger Recovery Program. This paper develops and uses a high-resolution monthly forest clearing database for 74 tiger habitat...
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A Resource Allocation Model for Tiger Habitat Protection
Dasgupta, Susmita; Hammer, Dan; Kraft, Robin - 2013
Habitat conservation is critical to the survival of endangered tigers. This paper develops a resource-allocation model for the protection of tiger habitats, using information on threats to particular tiger subspecies, the quality of remaining habitat areas, the observed effectiveness of habitat...
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Revealed Preference and Self-Insurance : Can We Learn from the Self-Employed in Chile?
Barr, Abigail; Packard, Truman - 2013
Financial sector development is a critical area of effective social protection policy. A well-regulated financial sector can complement government efforts to keep households from falling into poverty - by supplying the instruments needed to pool risks, or to self-insure against losses because of...
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On the Utility Consistency of Poverty Lines
Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin - 2003
Although poverty lines are widely used as deflators for inter-group welfare comparisons, their internal consistency is rarely given close scrutiny. A priori considerations suggest that commonly used methods cannot be relied on to yield poverty lines that are consistent in terms of utility, or...
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Valuing Global Public Goods : A European Delphi Stated Preference Survey of Population Willingness to Pay for Amazon Rainforest Preservation
Navrud, St??le; Strand, Jon - 2014
The Amazon Rainforest is a global public good. As such, and given that 15 percent of the original Amazon forest area has already been lost, households worldwide might be willing to pay to reduce or avoid additional losses. A full elicitation of global preferences for valuing preservation of the...
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The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development : Evidence from Nepal
Acharya, Gayatri; Bharadwaj, Prashant; Levere, Michael - 2016
Although substantial progress has been made in combating malnutrition at the global level, chronic maternal and child malnutrition remains a serious problem in many parts of the developing world. This paper, using a randomized control trial design in Nepal, evaluates a program that provided...
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Small Cash Rewards for Big Losers : Experimental Insights into the Fight against the Obesity Epidemic
Augurzky, Boris; Bauer, Thomas K.; Reichert, Arndt R.; … - 2015
This paper examines the sustainability of weight loss achieved through cash rewards and, for the first time, the potential of monetary incentives to prevent weight cycling. In a three period randomized controlled trial, about 700 obese persons were assigned to two treatment groups, which were...
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