The purpose of this study was to estimate the economic effects of hunting and fishing activities during the 2001 … conducted to solicit information on 21 hunting and fishing activities during the 2001-2002 season. Total spending by hunters and … estimated at $65.9 million. Hunting expenditures were estimated at $166.4 million, and fishing expenditures were estimated at …

The purpose of this study was to estimate the economic effects of hunting and fishing activities during the 2001 … conducted to solicit information on 21 hunting and fishing activities during the 2001-2002 season. Total spending by hunters and … estimated at $65.9 million. Hunting expenditures were estimated at $166.4 million, and fishing expenditures were estimated at …

sustainability is employed, by introducing capacity constraints as the boundaries above (or below) which the system cannot maintain … its stable state. Currently these capacity constraints are often not respected. In this paper it is shown how the … efficiency improvement pathway of an industry and the firms within it can be calculated to come to a sustainable, profit …

This study uses a stochastic production frontier to model energy efficiency trends, in 85 countries over a 37 year … and a theoretical model of energy-efficient technology choice. An improvement in a country’s energy efficiency is measured … across countries. The study shows that energy efficiency rises with increasing general total factor productivity. Energy …

perform an ex-ante analysis of the efficiency of water pricing policies, based on a two stage DEA technique, by which it is … improvement of the use efficiency of the water resources in the agricultural sector. For this purpose, we suggest a methodology to … possible to disaggregate the technical and the ecological efficiency of the policy. According to our results, we found that …

Pure Technical Efficiency scores of Austrian dairy farms are estimated econometrically on the basis of data envelopment …-level” efficiency. Using overall efficiency for the calculation of possible savings from a move to the frontier will overestimate these … savings and underestimate the efficiency of a farm relative to the conditions in which it operates. …

spelt out, and the appropriate performance-based financial incentives (and related capacity) for forest conservation be …