The present working paper includes a literature review of deforestation drivers both at the international level and especific to Mexico as well as a preliminary econometric analysis. The main objective is contibute to the understanding of the dynamics of land use change as well as to the...

Monitoring land degradation processes is crucial for progressing towards the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems. In this study, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 15.3.1, "proportion of degraded land over total land area," was estimated for 339...

This study measures the impact of consumption Ozone-Depleting Substances (ODS) on the Gross Domestic Agricultural Product (GDAP) of the Central American Countries. The methodology used is a non-parametric program under Data Envelopment Analyze (DEA) with the Malmquist indices methods. Both...

The Payment schemes for Environmental Services (PES) support positive environmental externalities by transferring financial resources from the beneficiaries of such environmental services to those who supply or manage them. The objective is to analyze the economical and financial profitability...

In this paper we calibrate the distortions associated to the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in the European Union. This policy fixes the fishing shares (quotas) for the European fleets in accordance with the Relative Stability Principle. In order to do this we build up a model of fisheries...

This paper analyses the Spanish residential demand of a bundle of goods conforming the basic services of the households (i.e. electricity, natural gas and drinking water) in 2012. The analysis is made using a QUAIDS model modified in order to consider the censoring in the consumption of natural...

This paper analyzes entry deterrence strategies at sequential multi-unit Englishtype repeated auctions, motivated by entry deterrence observed at a series of yearly auctions of fishing rights occurring since the early 1990s in the Chilean Sea Bass industrial fishery. It analyzes parametric...

El objetivo de la presente investigación es estudiar la geografía económica de la región de la Orinoquia, así como su patrón espacial de asentamiento poblacional y uso del suelo. La Orinoquia es una extensa región al sureste de Colombia, que se extiende entre las estribaciones de la...

A pesar de que las técnicas de planificación y manejo de cuencas nacionales han ido evolucionando, Venezuela cuenta con una base institucional y legal insuficientemente desarrollada acerca de la conservación y el manejo de las cuencas hidrográficas. Se hace necesario, pues, establecer los...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the main methodologies put forward for the determination of the social rate of discount in order to describe the central elements that allow to link environmental concerns to existing alternatives for the determination of this rate. Through the...