Sonia Akter, Timothy J. Krupnik, Frederick Rossi, Fahmida Khanam
Theoretically, weather-index insurance is an effective risk reduction option for small-scale farmers in low income countries. Renewed policy and donor emphasis on bridging gender gaps in development also emphasizes the potential social safety net benefits that weather-index insurance could bring to ...
Rafia Afroz, Keisuke Hanaki, Kiyo Kurisu
We employed the contingent valuation method to estimate the willingness to pay of the respondents to improve the waste collection system in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. Our objective was to estimate how WTP differs between respondents who received or did not receive door to door waste collection. The met...
Gowhar Meraj, Suraj Kumar Singh, Shruti Kanga, Md. Nazrul Islam
Claude Gascon, Thomas M. Brooks, Topiltzin Contreras‐MacBeath, Nicolas Heard et al.
Humans depend on biodiversity in myriad ways, yet species are being rapidly lost due to human activities. The ecosystem services approach to conservation tries to establish the value that society derives from the natural world such that the true cost of proposed development actions becomes apparent ...
Laura Vang Rasmussen, Ingo Graß, Zia Mehrabi, Olivia M. Smith et al.
Agricultural simplification continues to expand at the expense of more diverse forms of agriculture. This simplification, for example, in the form of intensively managed monocultures, poses a risk to keeping the world within safe and just Earth system boundaries. Here, we estimated how agricultural ...
Lilei Zhou, Dongjie Guan, Xiaoyong Huang, Xingzhong Yuan et al.
One of effective ways to maintain and expand the protected area of wetlands is the development and construction of wetland parks. As urbanization increases, deep insight on the relationships between wetland cultural ecosystem services and natural environment has become critical. In this paper, we id...
Sharif A. Mukul, Md. Shawkat Islam Sohel, John Herbohn, Luis Inostroza et al.
Muntasir Murshed, Mira Nurmakhanova, Mohamed Elheddad, Rizwan Ahmed
This study examines the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in the context of 12 members of the OPEC by utilizing data on both the aggregate gross value added and the services' sectoral value-added between 1992 and 2015. This empirical work contributes to the literature by applying the pane...
Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Suborna Barua, Zahoor Ahmed
The persistent dwindling of the biocapacity has caused the ecological footprint (EF) to keep increasing in the top ten tourist destinations over the last three decades. Moreso, economic growth, natural resource rent, and urbanization substantially increased for the same period. Tourism contributes t...
Ronju Ahammad, Natasha Stacey, Trey Sunderland
This study examines the relative benefits (provisioning) and importance (regulating and cultural) of forest ecosystem services to households in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region of Bangladesh. Our results from 300 household interviews in three rural locations stratified by wealth shows that we...
Molly K. Grace, H. Reşi̇t Akçakaya, Elizabeth L. Bennett, Thomas M. Brooks et al.
Recognizing the imperative to evaluate species recovery and conservation impact, in 2012 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) called for development of a "Green List of Species" (now the IUCN Green Status of Species). A draft Green Status framework for assessing species' progres...
José R. Ferrer‐Paris, Irene Zager, David A. Keith, María A. Oliveira‐Miranda et al.
Abstract Forests of the Americas and the Caribbean are undergoing rapid change as human populations increase and land use intensifies. We applied the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) criteria and simple cost‐efficiency analyses to provide the first regional perspective on patterns of relative risk ...
Rafia Afroz, Keisuke Hanaki, Rabaah Tudin
Information on waste generation, socioeconomic characteristics, and willingness of the households to separate waste was obtained from interviews with 402 respondents in Dhaka city. Ordinary least square regression was used to determine the dominant factors that might influence the waste generation o...
Md. Shawkat Islam Sohel, Sharif A. Mukul, Benjamin Burkhard
Md. Wasiul Islam, Lisa Ruhanen, Brent W. Ritchie
Although tourism destination governance has been a subject of academic enquiry for some time now, in practice, governance is still a challenge for many tourism destinations around the world. Adaptive co-management (ACM) is a dynamic approach to governance whereby institutional arrangements and ecolo...