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IDRC supports several regional networks in Environmental Economics. Their goal is to strengthen local capacity for the economic analysis of environmental problems so that researchers can provide sound advice to policymakers. Each network provides not only research awards and training opportunities but workshops, advice from resource persons, access to literature, publication outlets and opportunities for comparative research across member countries.
Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA)
South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE)
Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP)
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Center for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA)
Le CRDI soutient plusieurs réseaux régionaux en économie de l’environnement. Ces réseaux visent à renforcer, à l’échelon local, les capacités d’analyse économique des problèmes environnementaux afin que les chercheurs puissent offrir des conseils judicieux aux responsables des politiques. En plus d'offrir des bourses de recherche et des possibilités de formation, chaque réseau organise des ateliers, donne accès à des conseils d’experts et à de la documentation, fournit des débouchés pour les publications et offre des possibilités d’effectuer des études comparatives dans les pays participants.
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Programme d'Ă©conomie environnementale de l'AmĂ©rique latine et des CaraĂ¯bes (LACEEP)
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Item Accounting for environmental services : contrasting the SEEA and the ENRAP approaches(EEPSEA, Singapore, SG, 1999) IDRC. Regional Office for Southeast and East Asia, Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia; Peskin, H.M.; de los Angeles, M.S.Item Adding pollution to the bill : the environmental costs of power generation in North Vietnam(EEPSEA, Singapore, SG, 2001) IDRC. Regional Office for Southeast and East Asia, Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia; Nguyen Van Song; Nguyen Van HanhItem Adoption of safe drinking practices : does awareness of health effects matter?(SANDEE, Kathmandu, NP, 2004) Somanathan, E.; Choudhuri, SaraswataIn this study, Jyotsna Jalan, E. Somanathan and Saraswata Choudhuri of the Indian Statistical Institute examine the determinants of clean drinking water practices by using a national data set for urban India. The authors also estimate willingness to pay for clean water for a subset of households from Delhi.Item Agro-chemicals, productivity and health in Vietnam(EEPSEA, Singapore, SG, 1999) IDRC. Regional Office for Southeast and East Asia, Economy and Environment Program for Southeast AsiaItem Air quality and cement production : examining the implications of point source pollution in Sri Lanka(SANDEE, Kathmandu, NP, 2008) Bogahawatte, Cyril; Herath, JanaranjanaSuspended particulate matter (SPM), dust, fumes and gases from cement production can result in a range of health effects to households living around factories. This study estimates the health costs associated with air pollution from a cement factory in the district of Puttalam in Sri Lanka. The study uses field data collected from 500 households living within a 3 km radius of the factory and measures seasonal air pollution to estimate dose-response functions and mitigation cost functions for different respiratory illnesses. The results indicate that the incidence of respiratory illness is about 14% amongst individuals who live in the vicinity of the cement factory. The study estimates that the expected annual welfare gain by reducing the SPM level by 50% is SLR 699 (US$ 7) per representative individual, while the annual welfare gain to all people living in the vicinity of the factory is SLR 2.96 million (US $ 29,600).Item Are forests always a "Good Thing"? : understanding the linkages among forests, watersheds and agriculture in the Western Ghats of India(SANDEE, Kathmandu, NP, 2008) Lele, Sharadchandra; Bellamy, RufusThe study underlines the complex relationship between habitat conservation and agriculture, and highlights the need for environmental policy that takes into account social and economic impacts of decisions. The research examined water availability and its affect on crop choice and productivity, which in turn affects the economic welfare of local people. The study site areas of natural forests have been transformed into monoculture tree plantations, grasslands, and coffee, tea and rubber plantations. For a certain type of irrigation system, an increase in forest cover can reduce the amount of water available for agriculture.Item Assessing different approaches to forest management in Viet Nam(IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2000) Bellamy, R.Item Assessing environmental values : the damage schedule approach(EEPSEA, Singapore, SG, 1999) IDRC. Regional Office for Southeast and East Asia, Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia; Chuenpagdee, R.Item Awareness and the demand for environmental quality : drinking water in urban India(SANDEE, Kathmandu, NP, 2003) Jalan, Jyotsna; Somanathan, E.; Choudhuri, Saraswata; Gunatilake, Herath; Shyamsundar, PriyaThe demand for environmental quality clean air, potable water, sanitation, safe food is often presumed to be low in developing countries due to poverty. However, individuals in developing countries often lack the necessary information to make good decisions about environmental hazards in their day-to-day lives. Even if households can afford to take private measures to improve environmental quality, very often they choose not to do so, because they are not aware of the health risks associated with inferior environmental quality. A key policy question is whether increasing awareness about the adverse health effects of environmental pollution will increase demand for a cleaner environment? // In this paper, a household survey from urban India is used to estimate the effects of awareness and wealth on household decisions to purify home water. Average costs of different home purification methods are used to get estimates on willingness to pay for better drinking water quality in Delhi. It is found that measures of awareness such as schooling and exposure to mass media have statistically significant effects on adoption of different home purification methods and therefore, on willingness to pay. The interesting result is that these effects are similar in magnitude to wealth effects – this suggests that lack of awareness may be as important as poverty in influencing demand for clean water.Item Backyard and commercial piggeries in the Philippines : environmental consequences and pollution control options(EEPSEA, Singapore, SG, 2001-04) Catelo, A.O.; Dorado, M.A.; Agbisit, ElpidioItem Basic hygiene can beat diarrhoea : a lesson from the slums of Dhaka(SANDEE, Kathmandu, NP, 2009) Alam, Jahangir; Bellamy, RufusRelatively simple measures, such as the use of a narrow-neck water container or hand-washing can reduce diarrhoeal risk and duration. The mother's education and awareness also play an important role in lowering the prevalence of diarrhoea. The study assesses the financial cost of diarrhea to households and finds that slum households spend approximately 1% of their annual income on diarrhoea related costs. NGO and mass media public information campaigns should give more emphasis on safe storage of water, effective hand washing and other basic hygiene issues.Item Benefit transfer approach to environmental valuation : an application in China(EEPSEA, Singapore, SG, 1999) IDRC. Regional Office for Southeast and East Asia, Economy and Environment Program for Southeast AsiaItem Benefits and costs of controlling emissions from fossil - fired power plants : region IV, Philippines(EEPSEA, Singapore, SG, 2000) IDRC. Regional Office for Southeast and East Asia, Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia; Orbeta, E.M.; Rufo, C.M.; Indab, A.L.Item Benefits of clean air : a case study from India(SANDEE, Kathmandu, NP, 2006) Gupta, Usha; Bellamy, RufusIn cities across South Asia, air pollution is fast becoming a critical problem. As vehicle congestion gets worse, industrialization expands, and energy use soars, air quality in urban centres is reaching potentially hazardous levels. This is producing a wide range of social and environmental problems, particularly with regard to people’s health. This, in turn, is placing a significant economic burden on individuals and society in general, in terms of health costs and loss of economic productivity. Improving air quality calls for a wide-range of responses, many of which can be costly and therefore difficult to politically administer. To ensure that air clean-up policies are cost-effective and have the necessary political backing, it is vital that accurate information is available on the potential economic benefits of pollution.Item Can co-management improve governance of a common-pool resource? : lessons from a framed field experiment in a marine protected area in the Colombian Caribbean(Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP), Turrialba, CR, 2008) Moreno-SĂ¡nchez, RocĂo del Pilar; Maldonado, Jorge HiginioComplexities associated with the management of common pool resources (CPR) threaten governance at some marine protected areas (MPA). In this paper, using economic experimental games (EEG), we investigate the effects of both external regulation and the complementarities between internal regulation and non-coercive authority intervention—what we call comanagement— on fishermen’s extraction decisions. We perform EEG with fishermen inhabiting the influence zone of an MPA in the Colombian Caribbean. The results show that comanagement exhibits the best results, both in terms of resource sustainability and reduction in extraction, highlighting the importance of strategies that recognize communities as key actors in the decision-making process for the sustainable use and conservation of CPR in protected areas.Item Can co-management strategies improve governance in marine protected areas? : lessons from experimental economic games in the Colombian Caribbean(Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP), Turrialba CR, 2008) Moreno-SĂ¡nchez, RocĂo del Pilar; Higinio M., JorgeItem Can India afford to tackle global warning? : a peek at the year 2020(SANDEE, Kathmandu, NP, 2005) Prakash Ojha, Vijay; Bellamy, RufusGlobal warming is regarded by many scientists and politicians as one of the most significant challenges facing humanity. There is considerable pressure on developed and developing countries to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases, and many countries will have to start to act sooner than later. This is particularly true for India, which, on account of its size, is the fifth largest producer of carbon dioxide in the world.Item Can mangroves minimize property loss during big storms? : an analysis of house damage due to the super cyclone in Orissa(SANDEE, Kathmandu, NP, 2009) Das, Saudamini; Shyamsundar, PriyaThis paper estimates the storm protection benefits on residential property in the Kendrapada district of Orissa (India) due to the mediation of mangrove forests during a super cyclone (1999). By combining GIS data with census information, the analyses suggest that without mangrove protection the percentage of fully collapsed houses in the study area would have increased by 23%. Mangrove forests provided protection benefits to houses to the extent of INR 975, 800 (USD 23,233) per km width of forests or INR 51,168 (USD 1218) per hectare. Policy makers need to prioritize mangrove conservation and re-planting in planning for tropical storms.Item Can market forces clean the air in Manila?(EEPSEA, Singapore, SG, 1999) IDRC. Regional Office for Southeast and East Asia, Economy and Environment Program for Southeast AsiaItem Can participatory watershed management be sustained? : evidence from Southern India(SANDEE, Kathmandu, NP, 2007) Kumar, D. SureshWatershed development is a very important rural development programme in India. This paper studies 60 community groups in 12 micro-watersheds in South India to understand how villagers cooperate to manage watershed related tasks. The paper examines the factors that affect collective participation in watershed management and how cooperation changes once the State withdraws and hands control over management to panchayat raj institutions and other groups. The study finds that watershed institutions in most cases become inactive once the project period is over. The analysis of factors that influence on-going maintenance of watershed structures indicates that collective action emerges when user groups are small and homogenous and communities are dependent on a large number of wells. Wealthy user groups are likely to be more active when a project is on-going. The results suggest that watershed development should be given more emphasis where wells are the predominant source of irrigation. Further, greater success is likely where user groups have more knowledge and control over funds available for maintenance activities after the state withdraws.