This paper proposes that transboundary water governance needs to become an essential input to sustainable governance of protected natural reserves. The paper reviews the challenges and opportunities for such governance mechanisms, and identifies the factors behind successful practices....

Introduction: This research proposes the development of the confluence of river Niger and river Benue in Nigeria as a viable international tourist center. Case description: The confluence of river Niger and river Benue in Lokoja Nigeria, is the site proposed for intervention. The study...

Desvousges, Mathews and Train (2015) find that their contingent valuation method (CVM) survey data does not pass the adding up test using a nonparametric estimate of mean willingness-to-pay. Their data suffers from non-monotocity, flat bid curve and fat tails problems, each of which can cause...

This study addresses factors influencing the adoption of specialty rice variety among smallholder farmers in Vietnam. We used a sample of 336 farmers from the Red River Delta who were interviewed between October and December 2014. We follow the adoption behavior model based on the utility...

Prior to 2009, there was no direct road connection between the southern regions of Mozambique - where the capital city is located - and the more agriculturally-productive central and northern regions. In this paper, we leverage the opening of a major road bridge to identify the impact of...