Browsing by Author "Pattanayak, SK"
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Experimental evidence on promotion of electric and improved biomass cookstoves
<jats:p>Improved cookstoves (ICS) can deliver “triple wins” by improving household health, local environments, and global climate. Yet their potential is in doubt because of low and slow diffusion, likely because of constraints ... -
Local Uses of Parks: Uncovering Patterns of Household Production from Forests of Siberut, Indonesia
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Pricing ecological services: Willingness to pay for drought mitigation from watershed protection in eastern Indonesia
(Water Resources Research, 2001-06-23)In this study we estimate local economic values of ecological services provided by protected forest watersheds in Ruteng Park in eastern Indonesia. Our use of contingent valuation (CV) methodology for pricing drought mitigation ... -
Seeing the forest for the fuel
(Environment and Development Economics, 2004-02-01)We demonstrate a new approach to understanding the role of fuelwood in the rural household economy by applying insights from travel cost modeling to author-compiled household survey data and meso-scale environmental statistics ... -
The Price of Purity: Willingness to pay for air and water purification technologies in Rajasthan, India
Diarrheal illnesses and acute respiratory infections are among the top causes for premature death and disability across the developing world, and adoption of various technologies for avoiding these illnesses remains extremely ... -
What are Households Willing to Pay for Improved Water Access? Results from a Meta-Analysis
(Ecological Economics, 2017-06-01)© 2016Although several factors contribute to low rates of access to improved water and sanitation in the developing world, it is especially important to understand and measure household demand for these services. One valuable ... -
Worth of watersheds: A producer surplus approach for valuing drought mitigation in Eastern Indonesia
(Environment and Development Economics, 2001-02-01)This study combines hydrological modeling with applied micro-econometric techniques to value a complex ecosystem service: drought mitigation provided by tropical forested watersheds to agrarian communities. Spatial variation ...
