Evaluating the environment as a global public good

Global public goods are defined as non-excludable and non-rivalrous. Global environmental challenges, such as biodiversity conservation or climate change mitigation, fall squarely into this category. This contribution focuses on the specific dimensions of evaluating the provision of global public goods in light of experiences from the Global Environment Facility. As global environmental…

Evaluating collaboration: The creation of an online tool employing Q methodology

The continued prevalence of different forms of collaborative working within public policy requires adaption in evaluation practices. In recent years evaluation toolkits, audits and guides have migrated online, but with varying success. At their worst, such tools can offer a disengaging user experience, limited coverage of issues or normative bias. This article outlines POETQ, designed t…

Reframing how evaluators think and act: New insights from Ernest House

This essay examines some of the core concerns of House’s approach to evaluation, with specific reference to his latest book Evaluating: Values, Biases and Practical Wisdom. This is a difficult book to characterise in a few pithy statements. Part memoir, part evaluation novella and part scholarly textbook. Arguably, this is one of the most unique discourses on evaluation in the past deca…

Integrating theory-based evaluation and process tracing in the evaluation of …

Over the last two decades, gender-responsive budgeting has gained prominence as an effective tool for governments to fulfil gender commitments and the realisation of women’s rights. To date, however, limited empirical evidence exists of the impact and effectiveness of gender budget initiatives. This article proposes and demonstrates the integration of theory-based evaluation and process…

OPALesence: Epistemological pluralism in the evaluation of a systems-wide c…

The evaluation of complex systems-wide public health interventions requires evaluation research that is underpinned by theory. This article presents and discusses the trans-disciplinary evaluation research framework developed to support the evaluation of a South Australian program called OPAL (Obesity Prevention and Lifestyle). The aim is to provide insights into the research design, me…

Exploring ways to reconcile accountability and learning in the evaluation of …

While evaluation is seen as a mechanism for both accountability and learning, it is not self- evident that the evaluation of niche experiments focuses on both accountability and learning at the same time. Tensions exist between the accountability-oriented needs of funders and the learning needs of managers of niche experiments. This article explores the differences in needs and expectati…

Ethics & The Environment, Volume 21, Number 1,Spring 2016

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Social Research, Volume 83, Number 1, Spring 2016

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Media Culture & Society, Volume 38, Number 5, July 2016

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Environmental History, Volume 21 Issue 3 July 2016

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Environmental History, Volume 21 Issue 2 April 2016

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Environmental History, Volume 21 Issue 1 January 2016

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Environment and Development Economics, Volume 21 - Issue 4 - August 2016

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Environment and Development Economics,Volume 21 - Issue 3 - June 2016

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The critical mass approach to achieve a deal on green goods and services: wha…

In July 2014 a group of 14 countries (the ‘Davos Group’) launched negotiations on liberalizing trade in ‘green goods’ (also known as environmental goods – EGs), focusing on the elimination of tariffs for a list of 54 products. With an average tariff of 1.8 per cent, this group has little to offer even if the list were extended to the 411 products on the ‘WTO list’. Taking into account tariff di…

A corporate-crime perspective on fisheries: liability rules and non-compliance

The existing fisheries economics literature analyzes compliance problems by treating the fishing firm as one cohesive unit, but in many cases violations are committed by agents acting on behalf of a firm. To account for this, we analyze the principal–agent relationship within the fishing firm. In the case where the firm directly benefits from illegal fishing, the firm must induce its crew to vi…

Patterns of frontier development: a dynamic model of resource extraction in t…

Developing countries are known to exploit their resource frontier to achieve growth objectives and reduce poverty. This can lead to long-term positive outcomes or – if resource exploitation is unsustainable – lose–lose outcomes that leave populations and ecosystems worse off. This paper introduces a dynamic model of resource exploitation to explain how regions may succumb to, avoid or escape th…

The colonial origins of deforestation: an institutional analysis

This paper investigates whether inherited colonial legacies influence deforestation rates in 60 former colonized developing countries. It is hypothesized that differences in deforestation among countries can be attributed to their colonial legacies shaping the current impact of the institutional background on deforestation. Overall, the author finds that institutions defined as the extent of de…

A matter of good taste: investigating preferences for in-house water treatmen…

Low demand for safe water may partly result from a perceived distaste towards or the inconvenience of treatment methods. This paper analyzes preferences for water quality improvements in peri-urban Phnom Penh. The authors first analyze data from a discrete choice experiment in which respondents selected their preferred alternative from generic options varying in cost, taste acceptability, effec…

Analysis of energy poverty and its implications for sustainable development i…

This study estimates and analyzes the incidence and determinants of energy poverty in Nigeria based on a simple multidimensional energy poverty index that it constructed. It also highlights the implications of energy poverty for sustainable development in Nigeria. The headcount ratio and the logistic regression technique are used. The study utilizes the Nigeria Living Standard Survey data set o…