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Agricultural Insurances Based on Meteorological Indices: Realizations, Methods and Research Agenda
Leblois, Antoine; Quirion, Philippe - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
In many low-income countries, agriculture is mostly rain-fed and yields highly depend on climatic factors. Furthermore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465546
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Agri-Environmental Policies in a Transition Economy: Using a Choice Experiment to Value Agricultural Biodiversity on Hungarian Small Farms
Birol, Ekin; Gyovai, Ágnes; Smale, Melinda - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
Agricultural biodiversity is a crucial environmental resource. Much of the agricultural biodiversity remaining today is found on the semi-subsistence farms of poorer countries and on the small-scale farms and home gardens of more industrialised nations. The traditional Hungarian home gardens,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230946
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REDD and International Organizations
Giannini, Valentina - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
Climate change mitigation can be achieved, according to many, by means of Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Tropics (REDD). Within the climate change policy debate we thus find discussions on how to reduce GHG emissions by designing appropriate REDD programmes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828402
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Modeling Spatial Sustainability: Spatial Welfare Economics versus Ecological Footprint
Grazi, Fabio; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Rietveld, Piet - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
A spatial welfare framework for the analysis of the spatial dimensions of sustainability is developed. It incorporates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423233
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Estimating Ricardian Models With Panel Data
Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
Many nonmarket valuation models, such as the Ricardian model, have been estimated using cross sectional methods with a single year of data. Although multiple years of data should increase the robustness of such methods, repeated cross sections suggest the results are not stable. We argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009189884
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Using Degree Days to Value Farmland
Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert; Chonabayashi, Shun - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268602
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Can Climate Policy Enhance Sustainability?
Campagnolo, Lorenza; Carraro, Carlo; Davide, Marinella; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
explores whether the implementation of various climate policy scenarios would help enhancing sustainability or rather whether … comprehensive indicator, the FEEM Sustainability Index (FEEM SI), which aggregates several economic, social, and environmental … assessment of sustainability under different future climate policy scenarios. We find that the environmental component of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833947
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Sustainability and Optimality in Economic Development: Theoretical Insights and Policy Prospects
Farzin, Y. Hossein - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
This paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal … practical, especially in the context of developing countries. The maximin criterion of sustainability may be more appealing to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230804
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Tourism Specialization and Sustainability: A Long-Run Policy Analysis
Cerina, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This study focuses on the dynamic evolution of a small open economy specialized in tourism based on natural resources when tourist services are supplied to foreign tourists who are crowding-averse and give positive value to the environmental quality. We analyse the steady-state properties and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230879
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Sustainable Development Data Availability on the Internet
Caratti, Pietro; Ferraguto, Ludovico - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Defining what Sustainability and Sustainable Development mean is a critical task, as they are global objectives, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230903