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Felipe Vásquez-Lavin
Instituto Milenio en Socio-Ecología Costera (SECOS), Santiago 8320000, Chile

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Journal article
Published: 13 April 2021 in Sustainability
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Tourism to Cozumel Island generates USD 762 million annually in local economic activity, and 111 visitors stay in local hotels for each inhabitant. The island’s coast is its principal attraction, yet water quality and reef health are threatened. This paper studies the link between the local economy and management of Arrecifes de Cozumel National Park, using a choice experiment to assess the economic value visitors assign to underwater visibility, biodiversity, and visitor congestion in reef areas. We found that, on average, tourists are willing to pay USD 190 per visit to avoid a projected decrease in biodiversity, USD 120 per visit to prevent a projected decline in visibility, and USD 98 to avoid high congestion during reef visits. We find high heterogeneity in willingness to pay estimates, which may be useful for targeting both conservation and marketing efforts. On the other hand, increasing the reef access fee from USD 2 to USD 6 could fully fund effective protected area management, with no substantial effect on visitors’ consumer surplus. Results suggest that a conservation surcharge could be added to all tours, with little impact on visitation, and that significantly increasing private sector collaboration and government spending on conservation would be good economic choices.

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José Lara-Pulido; Ángela Mojica; Aaron Bruner; Alejandro Guevara-Sanginés; Cecilia Simon; Felipe Vásquez-Lavin; Cristopher González-Baca; María Infanzón. A Business Case for Marine Protected Areas: Economic Valuation of the Reef Attributes of Cozumel Island. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4307 .

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José Lara-Pulido, Ángela Mojica, Aaron Bruner, Alejandro Guevara-Sanginés, Cecilia Simon, Felipe Vásquez-Lavin, Cristopher González-Baca, María Infanzón. A Business Case for Marine Protected Areas: Economic Valuation of the Reef Attributes of Cozumel Island. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4307.

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José Lara-Pulido; Ángela Mojica; Aaron Bruner; Alejandro Guevara-Sanginés; Cecilia Simon; Felipe Vásquez-Lavin; Cristopher González-Baca; María Infanzón. 2021. "A Business Case for Marine Protected Areas: Economic Valuation of the Reef Attributes of Cozumel Island." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4307.

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Published: 22 March 2021 in Sustainability
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The global increase in renewable energy initiatives has been followed by the need to include the social impact of any project as a core element. Significant challenges for renewable energy development include uncertainty in assessing social impacts at local scales, participation and social acceptance. Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approaches have been widely used in energy planning to address these challenges. This article reviews how social criteria and participation mechanisms have been incorporated into decision-making processes for renewable energy projects. A total of 184 articles were analyzed. A total of 490 indicators that estimated social impacts were identified and organized into nine criteria: employment, social acceptance, social development, health impact, governance, visual impact, knowledge and awareness, cultural value and social justice. Most research included analytical hierarchy process methodologies, and the articles were geographically concentrated in Asia and Europe. Most articles included a participative component (92.3%), and the majority of them were based on expert consultation (75.4%). Of the articles that exclusively considered experts, almost 40% did not provide any description of the expert elicitation process. Results revealed advances in the use of MCDA but highlighted important challenges—related to improving expert consultation methodologies and broadening the participation of stakeholders—when developing renewable energy initiatives and policies.

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Rodrigo Estévez; Valeria Espinoza; Roberto Ponce Oliva; Felipe Vásquez-Lavín; Stefan Gelcich. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Renewable Energies: Research Trends, Gaps and the Challenge of Improving Participation. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3515 .

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Rodrigo Estévez, Valeria Espinoza, Roberto Ponce Oliva, Felipe Vásquez-Lavín, Stefan Gelcich. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Renewable Energies: Research Trends, Gaps and the Challenge of Improving Participation. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (6):3515.

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Rodrigo Estévez; Valeria Espinoza; Roberto Ponce Oliva; Felipe Vásquez-Lavín; Stefan Gelcich. 2021. "Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Renewable Energies: Research Trends, Gaps and the Challenge of Improving Participation." Sustainability 13, no. 6: 3515.

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Published: 24 November 2016 in Environment and Development Economics
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Stated preference approaches, such as contingent valuation, focus mainly on the estimation of the mean or median willingness to pay (WTP) for an environmental good. Nevertheless, these two welfare measures may not be appropriate when there are social and political concerns associated with implementing a payment for environmental services (PES) scheme. In this paper the authors used a Bayesian estimation approach to estimate a quantile binary regression and the WTP distribution in the context of a contingent valuation PES application. Our results show that the use of other quantiles framed in the supermajority concept provides a reasonable interpretation of the technical nonmarket valuation studies in the PES area. We found that the values of the mean WTP are 10–37 times higher than the value that would support a supermajority of 70 per cent of the population.

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Felipe Vásquez Lavín; Ricardo Flores; Verónica Ibarnegaray. A Bayesian quantile binary regression approach to estimate payments for environmental services. Environment and Development Economics 2016, 22, 156 -176.

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Felipe Vásquez Lavín, Ricardo Flores, Verónica Ibarnegaray. A Bayesian quantile binary regression approach to estimate payments for environmental services. Environment and Development Economics. 2016; 22 (2):156-176.

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Felipe Vásquez Lavín; Ricardo Flores; Verónica Ibarnegaray. 2016. "A Bayesian quantile binary regression approach to estimate payments for environmental services." Environment and Development Economics 22, no. 2: 156-176.

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Published: 01 January 2014 in Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
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Felipe Vásquez; Guillermo Paraje; Manuel Estay. [Reply to the letter of Cornejo-Ovalle. About socioeconomic inequalities in dental care in Chile]. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública 2014, 35, 80 .

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Felipe Vásquez, Guillermo Paraje, Manuel Estay. [Reply to the letter of Cornejo-Ovalle. About socioeconomic inequalities in dental care in Chile]. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública. 2014; 35 (1):80.

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Felipe Vásquez; Guillermo Paraje; Manuel Estay. 2014. "[Reply to the letter of Cornejo-Ovalle. About socioeconomic inequalities in dental care in Chile]." Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública 35, no. 1: 80.

Journal article
Published: 18 December 2012 in International Journal for Equity in Health
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Introduction A recent health reform was implemented in Chile (the AUGE reform) with the objective of reducing the socioeconomic gaps to access healthcare. This reform did not seek to eliminate the private insurance system, which coexists with the public one, but to ensure minimum conditions of access to the entire population, at a reasonable cost and with a quality guarantee, to cover an important group of health conditions. This paper’s main objective is to enquire what has happened with the use of several healthcare services after the reform was fully implemented. Methods Concentration and Horizontal Inequity indices were estimated for the use of general practitioners, specialists, emergency room visits, laboratory and x-ray exams and hospitalization days. The change in such indices (pre and post-reform) was decomposed, following Zhong (2010). A “mean effect” (how these indices would change if the differential use in healthcare services were evenly distributed) and a “distribution effect” (how these indices would change with no change in average use) were obtained. Results Changes in concentration indices were mainly due to mean effects for all cases, except for specialists (where “distribution effect” prevailed) and hospitalization days (where none of these effects prevailed over others). This implies that by providing more services across socioeconomic groups, less inequality in the use of services was achieved. On the other hand, changes in horizontal inequity indices were due to distribution effects in the case of GP, ER visits and hospitalization days; and due to mean effect in the case of x-rays. In the first three cases indices reduced their pro-poorness implying that after the reform relatively higher socioeconomic groups used these services more (in relation to their needs). In the case of x-rays, increased use was responsible for improving its horizontal inequity index. Conclusions The increase in the average use of healthcare services after the AUGE reform has not always led to improved equity in the use of such services in most services. This indicates that there are still barriers to the equitable use of healthcare services (e.g. insufficient medical human resources, financial barriers, capacity constraints, etc.) that have remained after the reform.

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Guillermo Paraje; Felipe Vásquez. Health equity in an unequal country: the use of medical services in Chile. International Journal for Equity in Health 2012, 11, 81 -81.

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Guillermo Paraje, Felipe Vásquez. Health equity in an unequal country: the use of medical services in Chile. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2012; 11 (1):81-81.

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Guillermo Paraje; Felipe Vásquez. 2012. "Health equity in an unequal country: the use of medical services in Chile." International Journal for Equity in Health 11, no. 1: 81-81.