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to protect their properties from coastal erosion. The impacts of private coastal protection works on the coastline have … where planning controls are not being effective by using indicators such as the presence of coastal protection structures …
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what could be claimed as legitimate protection under a “food security” (FS) box in World Trade Organization negotiations …. FS-box protection is sensitive to changes in the definition and the extent of the FS objectives. We show that FS via …
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Many environmental policy issues involve conflicts between nature conservation and economic development. The economic …
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Ecologists frequently note the importance of modelling entire ecosystems rather than single species, but most bioeconomic models in the current literature focus on a single species. While the mathematical difficulty of multiple species may quickly become overwhelming, sometimes making the single...
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The on-farm conservation and management of native grasslands, especially those that are botanically diverse or support … which may be requnred to nchieve desired conservation outcomes ate also discussed. Some suggestions are made For relevant …
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Agri-environmental schemes are found in most European countries and now account for approximately 4 per cent part of EU expenditure on UK agriculture. A significant part of that expenditure is the cost of monitoring farmer compliance with input restrictions. This paper analyses the design of...
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By design, tenders are used when costs are unknown. But if costs are unknown, how can we evaluate the tenders, when their evaluation involves measuring their cost-effectiveness? We identify three approaches: theoretical, empirical and experimental. We first use experimental data to compare the...
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Designing a conservation auction where bidders know the ecological value of their land poses challenges for policy … conservation. The results indicate that auctions offering multi-period contracts might be better equipped to constrain strategic … that given certain design intricacies, competition in an auction for conservation can be preserved with the provision of a …
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's preferences, and a conservation incentive in the form of a revenue-neutral, ad valorem tax on resource consumption. Adding …
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focused on the former, whereas government agencies have, for conservation purposes, mainly implemented the latter. This paper …
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