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Wildlife Conservation and Management in Kenya: Towards a Co-management Approach
Mburu, John - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
theoretical advancements on co-management and drawing on empirical studies conducted in Kenya, the paper examines how successful … Kenya. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570249
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Citation Success Over Time: Theory or Empirics?
Johnston, David W.; Piatti, Marco; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
This study investigates the citation patterns of theoretical and empirical papers over a period of almost 30 years, while also exploring the determinants of citation success. The results indicate that empirical papers attract more citation success than theoretical studies. However, the pattern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561654
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Drought and Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa
Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in … Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures … than 42% from a “normal” climate to an “extremely drought” climate. Surprisingly, only 2.5% of this effect is channeled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828408
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Towards a New Eastern Mediterranean Energy Corridor? Natural Gas Developments Between Market Opportunities and Geopolitical Risks
Tagliapietra, Simone - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
The Eastern Mediterranean region is rapidly changing. The turbolent political transition in Egypt after the Arab Spring … equilibrium. At the same time natural gas findings are flourishing in the offshore of Egypt, Israel, and Cyprus, reshaping the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833897
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Profiling Tourists for Balanced Utilization of Tourism-Based Resources in Kenya
Odunga, Pius; Folmer, Henk - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
Kenya is predominantly a nature-based tourism destination with wildlife (concentrated in the southern part of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423219
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Cultural Rights and Civic Virtue
Ford, Richard Thompson - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
This paper addresses the potential tension between two broadly stated policy objectives: the preservation of distinctive cultural traditions, often through the mechanism of formal legal rights, and the fostering of civic virtue, a sense of local community and the advancement of common civic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385343
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Accounting for Different Uncertainties: Implications for Climate Investments?
Hector, Svenja - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
The paper clarifies the link between changes in risk aversion and the effect on the consumption discount rate. In a general framework that can cope with various forms of uncertainty, it is shown that the response of the consumption discount rate to a change in risk aversion depends on some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904906
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Climate Change and Adaptation: The Case of Nigerian Agriculture
Bosello, Francesco; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
The present research offers an economic assessment of climate change impacts on the four major crop families characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80% of agricultural value added. The evaluation is performed shocking land productivity in a computable general equilibrium model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904911
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Leadership and International Climate Cooperation
Schwerhoff, Gregor - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Which kind of reaction can a nation or group of nations expect when leading by example in climate policy? This literature survey describes possible positive reaction mechanisms from different fields of economics, some of which have scarcely been linked to climate economics previously. One effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904926
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Innovation Complementarity and Environmental Productivity Effects: Reality or Delusion? Evidence from the EU
Gilli, Marianna; Mancinelli, Susanna; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Innovation is a key element behind the achievement of desired environmental and economic performances. Regarding CO2, mitigation strategies would require cuts in emissions of around 80-90% with respect to 1990. We investigate whether complementarity, namely integration, between the adoption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904932