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The role of urban green space for human well-being

Bertram, Christine; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

Most people in Europe live in urban environments. For these people, urban green space is an important element of well-being, but it is often in short supply. We use self-reported information on life satisfaction and different individual green space measures to explore how urban green space...

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On the Environmental Effectiveness of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Bertram, Christine; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Marine and coastal ecosystems – and thus the benefits they create for humans – are subject to increasing pressures and competing usages. For this reason, the European Union (EU) adopted the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), which is to guide future maritime policy in the EU and...

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Economic Costs of Ocean Acidification: A Look into the Impacts on Shellfish Production

Narita, Daiju; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, Richard S.J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

Ocean acidification is increasingly recognized as a major global problem. Yet economic assessments of its effects are currently almost absent. Unlike most other marine organisms, mollusks, which have significant commercial value worldwide, have relatively solid scientific evidence of biological...

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Trans-European-networks and the development of transport in the eastern Baltic Sea region

Laaser, Claus-Friedrich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

applied for EU membership. These actions are taking place in a variety of different fields. Transport infrastructure upgrading … Corridors' supervising committees, to account for network externalities. If one widens the narrow definition of infrastructure … to institutions, the adjustment of EITs' transport regulatory systems to EU regulations and competition policy can also …

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Establishing a Sustainable Development Goal for Oceans and Coasts to Face the Challenges of our Future Ocean

Visbeck, Martin; Kronfeld-Goharani, Ulrike; Neumann, Barbara - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Oceans regulate our climate, provide us with natural resources such as food, materials, substances, and energy and are essential for international trade, recreational, and cultural activities. Free access to and availability of ocean resources and services, together with human development, have...

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Integrating biodiversity indices into a multi-species optimal control model

Bertram, Christine - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

Processes of regional economic integration have been shaping the economic relations between countries significantly during the last decades. In addition, an increasing integration of the national economies into the global economy has affected these economic relations, too. In an effort to...

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Der Preis des "Grünen Goldes" - Informationen und Informationsdefizite über den Marktwert genetischer Ressourcen

Deke, Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

Genetic resources are living organisms that contain genetic information which is of importance for biotechnological research and development. Facing an accelerated worldwide loss in species diversity, the question is whether commercial trade with genetic resources can generate sufficient...

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Financing National Protected Area Networks Internationally ; The Global Environment Facility as a Multilateral Mechanism of Transfer

Deke, Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

Nationally implemented protected area measures for biodiversity conservation generate cross-border externalities. For … internalizing these externalities at the international level, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has been established as a …

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Internalizing Global Externalities from Biodiversity ; Protected Areas and Multilateral Mechanisms of Transfer

Deke, Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

generate positive externalities at the global scale. This holds especially for protection in developing countries that host …

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Consumer’s Willingness to Pay for Green Electricity: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature

Sundt, Swantje; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

The number of studies published focusing on people’s preferences for green electricity has increased steadily, making it more and more difficult to identify key explanatory factors that determine people’s willingness-to-pay (WTP). Based on results of a meta-regression our results indicate...

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