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The abandonment of indigenous and traditional ways of relating to the landscape and making use of the environment are …
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This paper explores the determinants of victimization at the neighborhood level, using data from the French victimization survey. Its contribution to the economics of crime literature is threefold. First, I provide evidence that neighborhood characteristics explain victimization better than...
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The aim of this paper is to provide explanatory elements of the geography of collaboration by testing various potential …
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This paper tries to elicit elements which explain the geography of science-industry collaborations by focusing on their … and could influence the geography of collaborations. An empirical study on collaborations established between Poitiers …
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In the economic literature it is generally found that trade openness affects environment through various channels … examining the consequences of agricultural primary commodity export on population's health via physical environment degradation …
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We propose an ethical viewpoint based on the possibility of the realization of the worst-case scenario in order to reduce future generations risks in terms of discounting. Applied to the question of conservation of a renewable resource, we show that an economy, where the social planner takes...
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addressing here is: should uncertainty about future preferences lead to a more conservative attitude towards environment … environment than ours, but this result relies heavily on the assumption of a separability between consumption and environmental … (impatience, intertemporal flexibility, natural capacities of regeneration of the environment, relative preference for the …
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We consider an overlapping generations model with environment and an elastic labor supply. In this framework, consumers …
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the use of environmental services and so is a direct cause of environmental degradation. The environment is valued both as … marginal discount rate allows us to avoid the depletion of the environment. …
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The Kyoto Protocol, which came in force in February 2005, allows countries to resort to «supplementary activities» consisting particularly in carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. Existing papers studying the optimal carbon sequestration recognize the importance of the temporality of...
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