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Revisiting Worst-case DEA for Composite Indicators

Athanassoglou, Stergios - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

Composite indicators are becoming increasingly infuential tools of environmental assessment and advocacy. Nonetheless … indicators was extended to account for worst-case analysis by Zhou, Ang, and Poh [21] (hereafter, ZAP). In this note we argue … analogue of standard DEA for composite indicators and show how it leads to tractable optimization problems. Finally, we compare …

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Key Environmental Innovations

Huber, Joseph - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper is based on empirical research on a taxonomy of technological environmental innovations. It draws on a databank with over 500 examples of new technologies (materials, products, processes and practices) which come with benign environmental effects. The approaches applied to...

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Climate Change and Individual Decision Making: An Examination of Knowledge, Risk Perception, Self-interest and Their Interplay

Pongiglione, Francesca - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: (a) knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, (b) risk perception, as it relates to an individual’s direct experience of climate change and...

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Equity and Justice in Global Warming Policy

Kverndokk, Snorre; Rose, Adam - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such...

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The GMO Dispute before the WTO: Legal Implications for the Trade and Environment Debate

Sindico, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

USA, Canada and Argentina have challenged before the World Trade Organisation the European Communities’ (EC) denial of Genetically Modified (GM) product imports, which took place from 1998 to 2004 . Against this background, the goal of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we will determine which...

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Recreational, Cultural and Aesthetic Services from Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems

Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Portela, Rosimeiry; Rao, Nalini; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The role of economic analysis in guiding the sustainable development of estuarine and coastal ecosystems is investigated based on a comprehensive review of the literature on the valuation of the recreation, cultural and aesthetic services. The implications of the findings for the sustainable...

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Threshold Effects in Coral Reef Fisheries

Crépin, Anne Sophie - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

Coral reefs may naturally flip between coral-dominated and algae-dominated states, when species' stocks trespass some threshold levels. This essay uses a stylized model of a coral reef to show how fishing may induce flips towards more algae-dominated states. Threshold effects have consequences...

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Comparison between Artisanal Fishery and Manila Clam Harvesting in the Venice Lagoon by Using Ecosystem Indicators: An Ecological Economics Perspective

Granzotto, Angela; Pranovi, Fabio; Libralato, Simone; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

impact on the ecosystem. A set of indicators was applied in order to compare the two fishing activities. The results obtained …

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Can Climate Policy Enhance Sustainability?

Campagnolo, Lorenza; Carraro, Carlo; Davide, Marinella; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

indicators. The FEEM SI index is built into a recursive-dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the world economy …, thus offering the possibility of projecting all indicators into the future, and therefore delivering a perspective …

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Assessing the Impact of Biodiversity on Tourism Flows: A model for Tourist Behaviour and its Policy Implications

Macagno, Giulia; Loureiro, Maria; Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

This analysis provides an example of how biodiversity can be measured by means of different indicators, and how the …. The first step of the analysis required the construction of biodiversity indicators suitable for developing a biodiversity … of the biodiversity and landscape indicators included in the analysis turn out to be statistically significant in …

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