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Browsing by Author "Pattanayak, SK"
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Ecosystem change and human health: implementation economics and policy.
(Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2017-06)Several recent initiatives such as Planetary Health, EcoHealth and One Health claim that human health depends on flourishing natural ecosystems. However, little has been said about the operational and implementation challenges ... -
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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NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions
(WIDER Working Paper, 2018-05-31)Interventions in remote, rural settings face high transaction costs. We develop a model of household decision-making to evaluate how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) address these implementation-related challenges and ... -
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 ...
