Breve estudio sobre la Ley holandesa del matrimonio homosexual en contraste con otras legislaciones. Ya en esta misma publicación la Revista crítica de Historia de las Relaciones Laborales y de la Política Social se ha publicado en su número 6 (mayo 2013) la ley belga del matrimonio...

The study identifies the existence of a bequest motive, or intergenerational value, closely related with the conservation of forests in poor rural communities with communal forests under logging. A survey with the contingent-valuation question type was applied to the households of two...

Mexico faces both high deforestation and severe water scarcity. The Payment for Hydrological Environmental Services (PSAH) Program was designed to complement other policy responses to the crisis at the interface of these problems. Through the PSAH, the Mexican federal government pays...

The study confirms the existence of a bequest motive, or intergenerational value, closely related to the conservation of forests in poor rural communities with communal forests under logging. A survey with contingent valuation type of questions was applied to the households of two populations...

A long term forest fire danger index is described. Such an index is based on the principle that forest fires follow a self organized critical behavior. This behavior implies that under a wide variety of circumstances, forest fires exhibit a power-law dependence of occurrence frequency on burn...

This paper describes a long term risk index for agricultural disasters. The index is built upon the principle that agricultural disasters follow a self organized critical behavior, which implies that under a wide variety of circumstances, agricultural disasters exhibit a power-law dependence of...

This paper describes the evolution of the systems used to predict land use cover/change. Based on cartographic information built by INEGI the dynamics of change of different types of land use during the period 1993-2000 is estimated; such information is used to compute transition probabilities...

A methodology to estimate relative productivity in forest sites with several species throughout an efficiency index derived from radial and directional distance functions is described. The paper introduces the distance function as a measure of relative efficiency in the use of resources by mixed...

Several studies around the globe show that Community Forest Management throughout an improved institutional design inside communities can help to reduce deforestation rate, improve forest management practices and produce a greater flow of goods and services for both communities and society. This...

We model a situation in which the voters are or not fooled by the local or/and the federal government, and their capability of accounting the behavior of the governments, when they are not fully informed about which are services/goods that each level have to provide, and hence they are not able...