Dora Carías Vega

ORCID: 0000-0003-0141-0602
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Research Areas
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Education Systems and Policy
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics
  • International Business and FDI
  • Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Merger and Competition Analysis
  • Digitalization and Economic Development in Agriculture
  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
  • African history and culture studies
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Social Capital and Networks

University of the Sunshine Coast
2023

The University of Melbourne
2014-2019

Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
2016

MIT University
2012-2013

RMIT University
2012-2013

Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
2009-2012

Instituto Costarricense de Investigación y Enseñanza en Nutrición y Salud
2012

Choice experiments, a stated preference valuation method, are proposed as tool to assign monetary values environmental externalities during the ex ante stages of impact assessment. This case study looks at impacts Costa Rican Institute Electricity's Toro 3 hydroelectric project and its on Recreo Verde tourism center in San Carlos, Rica. Compared other methods (e.g., travel cost contingent valuation), choice experiments can create hypothetical but realistic scenarios for consumers generate...

10.3152/146155111x12959673795804 article EN Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 2012-02-20

The Mayan Biosphere Reserve in the region of Petén, Guatemala and state Quintana Roo, Mexico have well-established experiences community-based forestry community enterprises within area known as forest. Context has been a key factor shaping trajectories these two cases. Several scholars highlighted usefulness understanding role context emergence functioning common property regimes. However, scholarship dominated by mainstream school property, which sees regimes arising out voluntary,...

10.1080/10549811.2019.1598875 article EN Journal of Sustainable Forestry 2019-04-29

Abstract Recent research identified twenty conditions that enable the participation of smallholder tree growers in timber value chains. This paper builds on work. It delves deeper into how and when during plantation investment cycle these facilitate sustained trade between small-scale producers, processors, buyers, other service providers. also identifies stakeholders who are best position to influence conditions. Conditions affect access such as biophysical characteristics land, plots where...

10.1007/s11842-023-09539-x article EN cc-by Small-scale Forestry 2023-01-23
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