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This study uses the EU public power generating sector as a case study to investigate the environmental efficiency and productivity enhancing performance of the European Union’s CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in its pilot phase. Using Data Envelopment Analysis methods, we measure the...
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Wilderness protection is a growing necessity for modern societies, and this is particularly true for areas where population density is extremely high, as for example Europe. Conservation, however, implies very high opportunity costs. It is thus crucial to create incentives to efficient...
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Tourism destination benchmarking and the assessment of tourism management performances are a crucial and challenging … task in the direction of evaluating tourism sustainability and reshaping tourism activities. However, assessing tourism … of long-run sustainable efficiency and tourism performances. Indeed, while the environmental endowment of a site is a key …
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This paper discusses a methodology to assess the performances of tourism management of local governments when economic … correlated to the tourism industry. Further, potential managerial improvements for those areas resulting far from the efficiency …
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Environmental cost-benefit analysis (ECBA) refers to social evaluation of investment projects and policies that involve significant environmental impacts. Valuation of the environmental impacts in monetary terms forms one of the critical steps in ECBA. We propose a new approach for environmental...
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Within the political, scientific and economic debate on climate change, the process of evaluating climate policies ex-ante, during and/or ex-post their lifetime, is receiving increasing attention from international institutions and organisations. The task becomes particularly challenging when...
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In 2003, an industry-financed, government-administered buyback of trawl fishing permits and vessels took place on the US West Coast, resulting in the retirement of about one-third of the limited-entry trawl fleet. The lack of cost data in this fishery precludes an analysis of how the buyback has...
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focusing on tourism demand. Our hedonic price estimations combine detailed hotel price information with tourism-specific travel …
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, even for tourism purposes, natural, historical and cultural resources subject to restrictions in the territory. This … contribution describes the research process activated for the definition of a tourism development strategy in the youngest Italian … been developed from a tourism point of view and it has an "eclectic" naturalist value characterised by flora on one hand …
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affecting the fishing and the tourism sectors in two different IPCC SRES scenarios, the A2 and B1, varying in the future trends … through increases in fishing effort, due to lower availability of commercial fish species, and decrease in tourism demand … larger when the tourism sector is affected. This is explained by the much higher contribution of tourism than fishery in the …
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