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A Review of Recent Studies on Cost Effectiveness of GHG Mitigation Measures in the European Agro-Forestry Sector

Giupponi, Carlo; Bosello, Francesco; Povellato, Andrea - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

Over the last twenty years, climate change has become an increasing concern for scientists, public opinions and policy makers. Due to the pervasive nature of its impacts for many important aspects of human life, climate change is likely to influence and be influenced by the most diverse policy...

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Comparing Price and Non-price Approaches to Urban Water Conservation

Olmstead, Sheila M.; Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Urban water conservation is typically achieved through prescriptive regulations, including the rationing of water for particular uses and requirements for the installation of particular technologies. A significant shift has occurred in pollution control regulations toward market-based policies...

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Relaxing Constraints as a Conservation Policy

Groom, Ben; Palmer, Charles - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

Eco-entrepreneurs in developing countries are often subject to market or institutional constraints, e.g. via credit rationing or missing markets. Conservation interventions which relax constraints may be both cost-effective and poverty reducing. A simulation using data from an intervention in...

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Biofuel Economics in a Setting of Multiple Objectives & Unintended Consequences

Jaeger, William K.; Egelkraut, Thorsten M. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

This paper examines biofuels from an economic perspective and evaluates the merits of promoting biofuel production in the context of the policies’ multiple objectives, life-cycle implications, pecuniary externalities, and other unintended consequences. The policy goals most often cited are to...

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Eliciting the Demand for Long Term Care Coverage: A Discrete Choice Modelling Analysis

Brau, Rinaldo; Bruni, Matteo Lippi - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

results of a choice experiment carried out on a representative sample of the Emilia-Romagna population. Choice modelling …

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The Nexus Land-Use Model, an Approach Articulating Biophysical Potentials and Economic Dynamics to Model Competition for Land-Uses

Souty, F.; Brunelle, T.; Dumas, P.; Dorin, B.; Ciais, P.; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

cost minimisation for farmers. The land-use modelling approach described in this paper entails several advantages. Firstly …

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Participatory Modelling and Decision Support for Natural Resources Management in Climate Change Research

Giupponi, Carlo; Mysiak, Jaroslav; Sgobbi, Alessandra - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

potentials and the critical limitations of current approaches in the fields of simulation modelling (SM), public participation … proposal is presented, called NetSyMoD (Network Analysis – Creative System Modelling – Decision Support), which aims at … Modelling; (iv) DSS design; (v) Analysis of Options; and (vi) Action taking and monitoring. Several variants of the NetSyMoD …

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Can Numerical Models Estimate Indirect Land-use Change?

Brunelle, Thierry; Dumas, Patrice - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

Motivated by the conclusions from various modelling studies, modifications to the bioenergy sector regulations are … paper reviews recent developments in land-use modelling, with a particular focus on the solutions adopted to estimate ILUC … modelling is a major challenge for land-use science. In recent years, numerical models have been significantly upgraded to …

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A History of Violence: Testing the ‘Culture of Honor’ in the US South

Grosjean, Pauline - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Using historical data on early settlers to the United States, this paper tests and confirms the “Culture of Honor” hypothesis by socio-psychologists Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett (1994, 1996). This hypothesis argues that the high prevalence of homicides in the US South stems from the fact...

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Cultural Diversity in People’s Attitudes and Perceptions

Petkova, Diana - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper shares the approach of social constructivism, and maintains that diversity should be examined not ‘par excellence’, as an entity in itself, but as reflected in people’s minds and expressed in their attitudes and perceptions. On the basis of an empirical Bulgarian-Finnish...

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