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Effective solutions for integrating agricultural development and conservation of biodiversity at the landscape scale …
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The ICMS-Ecológico is a fiscal transfer mechanism from states to municipalities, implemented in the early 1990's in Brazil, to reward municipalities for the creation and management of protected areas. This paper investigates the efficiency of this mechanism by testing for the presence of...
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This article deals with the impact of legislation in the seed sector on incentives for variety creation. The first category of rules consists in intellectual property rights and is intended to address a problem of sequential innovation and R&D investments. The second category concerns commercial...
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A better understanding of the relationship between economic development and biodiversity loss is of great relevance … Curve, of the relationship between economic development and pressure on biodiversity. Drawing on the most up-to-date data on … biodiversity imperilment, measured as the percent of threatened bird species. The results also reveal some species …
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Business activities play a major role in biodiversity loss and, as a result, firms are under increasing pressures from … regarding biodiversity are progressively changing, suggesting that interactions between business and biodiversity could go … perceptions regarding biodiversity. In its first part, we discuss how biodiversity is usually perceived as an external …
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Biodiversity refers to the dynamics of interactions between organisms in changing environments. Within the context of … accelerating biodiversity loss worldwide, firms are under increasing pressures from stakeholders to develop appropriate tools to … agents. This paper presents a two-pronged approach towards accounting for changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services from …
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Biodiversity conservation in low-income economies is a vital issue and hence needs to be addressed for development and … possible causes of biodiversity erosion. Research on the "driving forces" that influence biodiversity conservation effort is …, strengthening governance is an effective mean to support the promotion of biodiversity conservation. In addition, we find that …
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This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data … associated with performance except when it relates to ethnicity. It not only reduces performance per se but also increases risk …. Female presence and professional diversity reduce risk but nationality and ethnicity diversities are associated with higher …
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non-zero risk levels. Some contemporary European societies tolerate about one fatality per thousand year around industrial …
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Using a recent household survey conducted in Senegal, I examine the impact of negative and positive income shocks on departures from and entries in the household. I focus on differences in responses to shocks across the urban and rural sectors as well as age and gender groups. Striking...
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