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Updates from Environment for Development, a global network of researchers solving the world’s most urgent environmental and development challenges.
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Newsletter from EfD
February 2024
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Dear friends of EfD,
In this month’s newsletter, you will first reconnect to one of the most influential research themes that EfD has had – the evaluation of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Costa Rica. This strand of research was started by Francisco Alpizar two decades ago and has since involved many domestic and international researchers in a series of peer-reviewed publications. It has also been very influential internationally in the design of similar programs. It’s an excellent example of how EfD works on long-term, insightful, high-quality research with broad policy impact. But the EfD universe is rich and diverse. You also find news on gender in India, carbon pricing in West Africa, climate adaptation in fish farming, and much more.
Enjoy!
Gunnar Köhlin, Director
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Costa Rica's Payment for Ecosystem Services scheme has been evaluated
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The protection of forests allows the protection of other ecosystem services. Photo: Bárbara Viguera.
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EfD Central America researchers have worked with the National Forestry Financing Fund (Fonafifo) to analyze if the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs implemented since the 90s have improved the quality and quantity of water because of the protection of forests. Read about their interesting findings!
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The equal inheritance reform for women in India is breaking barriers
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Women in village in the state of Gujarat. Photo: Tanu Gupta.
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In India, where traditional norms often limit women's participation in the labor market, the conversation around equal inheritance reform takes center stage. A study by Tanu Gupta, explores the transformative effects of legal equal inheritance reforms on women's time allocation decisions, aiming to illuminate the nuanced ways in which such changes can enhance women's autonomy and influence their roles in both domestic and market spheres. Read about these interesting findings!
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Researchers explore the potential of carbon taxation in Ghana and Nigeria
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Photo: Marek Piwnicki, Unsplash.
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Researchers from EfD Ghana and EfD Nigeria are embarking on a project aiming to tackle climate change while fostering economic growth. Titled Understanding the Incentives and Obstacles to effective Carbon Tax Regimes in West African Countries, the project seeks to shed light on the incentives and hurdles surrounding carbon taxation in West Africa, with a specific focus on Ghana and Nigeria. It is led by EfD Ghana’s Monica Lambon-Quayefio. Read more about this!
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Study will provide knowledge on how fish farmers perceive climate-related risks and their adaptation
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Fish Farming in Uganda. Photo: Mohsen Taha. Wikimedia Commons.
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Researchers from EfD Vietnam and Uganda will analyze how fish farmers in those countries perceive risks, in particular climate-related risks, and how they adapt to those risks since they are significant for fish farming in both countries. Learn more about this interesting project!
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How economic growth, population, and renewable energy use affect CO2 emissions
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In the ongoing struggle against climate change, a recent study has underscored the need for policymakers to understand the determinants of CO2 emissions. The study, conducted across 103 countries reveals how renewable energy use, financial market progress, per capita income growth, and population size affect both consumption and production-based carbon emissions. Some results may be a bit surprising - check this out!
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Urban authorities called to harness human waste for biogas and fertilizers
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Environmental economists from Makerere University have called on urban authorities to harness the abundant human and organic waste in the cities to produce biogas and organic fertilizers. They argue that while urbanization is a key driver of growth, unplanned, rapid urbanization and urban sprawl threaten to increase greenhouse emissions and vulnerability to climate change and other shocks. Read more about their arguments and suggested solutions!
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EfD Ethiopia initiates collaboration with Addis Ababa City Environmental Protection Authority
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The signing of the agreement. Photo: EfD Ethiopia.
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Beyene Petros, Executive General Director of PSI, the host institution of EfD Ethiopia, and Dida Diriba, Manager of Addis Ababa City Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), signed a contract on February 15, to study Household energy consumption and main environmental impacts in Addis Ababa city. The study will help to understand the energy consumption pattern of households, driving factors, and its environmental implications in the city. Read more about this collaboration!
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Context, welfare sensitivity, and positional preferences among fisherfolks in a developing country
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This study, by EfD researchers Wisdom Akpalu, Håkan Eggert, and Kwami Adanu, published in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, investigates positional concerns of individuals in artisanal fishing communities where the men go on fishing expeditions and the women process and sell the catch.
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A theoretical model of utility bill payment
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Customer not paying their water bills is an issue in many cities in the Global South, jeopardizing the utilities’ ability to recover operations and maintenance costs through tariffs. EfD researchers David Fuente and Joseph Cook with co-authors have used game theory in an EfD Discussion paper to study the option of disconnecting non-paying households.
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Gender differences in adaptation strategies to salinity intrusion in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
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This EfD Discussion paper by EfD researchers Hoa Le Dang and Nam Khanh Pham and co-authors investigates the opinions of wives and husbands in farm households concerning adaptive responses to salinity intrusion in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. The researchers find that wives and husbands act differently when it comes to the number of and their choices of adaptive measures they consider.
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Unconditional cash transfers and safe transitions to adulthood in Malawi
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As national social safety nets are expanding in Africa and globally, evidence of the impact of programs on youth transitions can help guide future investment and program design decisions. This paper by EfD researcher Monica Lambon-Quayefio and co-authors published in World Development, examines the effects of Malawi’s flagship cash transfer program on safe transitions to adulthood among youth living in households experiencing ultra-poverty.
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The 18th Annual Meeting will take place in Nairobi, Kenya on October 3-6, 2024. A Policy Day will be held on October 2.
Stay tuned for more information!
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Challenges in African governance, leadership & democracy – KAPTalk with Dr Mo Ibrahim
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Meet Dr Mo Ibrahim, star entrepreneur and founder of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, who will provide an overview of the causes and effects of military coups and increasing internal conflicts in the Sahel region, Africa.
Location: University of Gothenburg or online!
Date: March 19, 2024.
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EAERE Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics on: Data science in environmental economics research
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The University of Graz, Austria and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) organize the 2021-2025 EAERE Summer School series in Resource and Environmental Economics for postgraduate students.
Date: June 22-28, 2024.
Application deadline: March 14, 2024.
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EfD Webinar series: WinEED (Women in Environmental Economics for Development)
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Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more information!
Date: March 20, 2024.
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ISS2024 is the 20th Annual conference of The International Joseph A. Schumpeter society.
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“Transformation: Creative Accumulation and Creative Destruction in the Economy” is this year’s conference theme. Transformation as the theme focuses our attention upon change, which is a classical aspect of Schumpeter’s analysis of the economy and society.
Date: June 9-11, 2024.
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RFF Summer Research Internship Program
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Do you want to begin a career in academic or policy research? Are you interested in contributing to impactful, balanced research that is aimed at improving environmental, energy and natural resource decisions? A summer research internship with Resources for the Future (RFF) might be right for you.
Date: June 10 - August 16, 2024.
Application deadline: March 22, 2024.
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Senior Program Specialist - IDRC, Montevideo
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Our employment opportunity of the moment: Senior Program Specialist in our Sustainable Inclusive Economies programs (SIE), which builds evidence to support sustainable development that reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and enhances climate resiliency, fosters shared prosperity, and expands economic opportunities for women and youth in developing countries. Location: Montevideo, Uruguay (Hybrid Mode).
Application deadline: March 6, 2024.
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PhD Scholarship in Sustainable Climate Policy - Carbon Pricing Instruments
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A full-time PhD studentship to start in September 2024 at the Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. Studentships include a tuition fee waiver and an annual stipend. The School also offers a research support allowance to cover conferences, courses, fieldwork, or other academic activities. upport each academic year.
Application deadline: April 2, 2024.
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment (IonE)
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They are looking for Ph.D. or Ph.D. candidates who are interested in interdisciplinary academic research and community-engaged scholarship with a focus on solutions-oriented research in sustainability to support an equitable and just transition for all.
Application deadline: March 11, 2024.
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Project funding opportunity
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Climate Impacts Awards: Unlocking urgent climate action by making the health effects of climate change visible
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The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale. We will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects that maximize policy outcomes by combining evidence generation, policy analysis, engaged research approaches, and communication strategies.
Deadline for application: April 3, 2024
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2024 Nordic Conference in Development Economics
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The conference takes place on 17-18 June 2024, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
They welcome submissions of individual papers in any field of development economics from researchers based in the Nordic countries and elsewhere.
Submission deadline: March 17, 2024.
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Special Issue on “Challenges for the development of Latin America in the Anthropocene: current research in environmental economics”
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Environment and Development Economics seeks to publish a special issue on challenges for the development of Latin America in the Anthropocene: current research in environmental economics.
Submission deadline: March 31, 2024..
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