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An important problem in environmental economics arises from te irreversibility of consuming or destroying certain … resources. Extractive resources like oil are a clear example. Even for environmental resources the same seems to be true in a … number of environmental cases, for example biodiversity, current climate conditions, or complex ecological systems …
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sample. Our results show that WTP for the environment is lower in countries where an Environmental Fiscal Reform has been …This paper empirically investigates the determinants of willingness to pay (WTP) for the environment, employing micro … focus is on whether WTP is influenced by the Environmental Fiscal Reforms (EFR), carried out only in some countries of our …
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Many countries measure the heights and weights of children in primary and secondary school. Individual children are usually monitored at school against growth charts, with appropriate referrals. Schoolchild data aggregated to the community, state or nation, and validated against population...
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This paper illustrates the use of alternative, non-market valuation methods to estimate the economic value of ecological damage caused by the invasive plant Acacia saligna. We discuss the motivation to perform an economic valuation for bio-invasion in general and then examine the costs and...
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Basic services in Finnish national parks and state-owned recreation areas have traditionally been publicly financed and thus free of charge for users. Since the benefits of public recreation are not captured by market demand, government spending on recreation services must be motivated in some...
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The radical tourism development and its adverse environmental impacts have revived the discussion about Environmental … environmental ethics, the current Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism Development policy-making, and the tourism industry. More … specifically, the conceptual analysis adopts an environmental ethics’ and environmental politics perspective. Based on the example …
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framework of analysis; a brief description of events and their overall social, economic and environmental effects; assessments …
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Past interest in the phenomena of Public interest litigation has concentrated on a legal justification of PIL and on arguments based on “access to Justice” for the poor. There seems to be scant literature that looks at PIL from a Law and Economics perspective. This paper sets up a framework...
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The purpose of this study was to examine interrelationship and causal linkages between socioeconomic and environmental … debt in most OECD countries. Spending for environmental protection contributes to reduced emission of CO2 in all regions of … Europe except Asia/Pacific and North America. Expenditure for environmental protection causes increases in public debt in all …
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There has been a lot of debate regarding the impact of emissions of pollutants on human health and the environment … human and environmental health benefits from improved air quality indicate that there are associations between ambient … concentrations of contaminants, human health and environmental impacts. The present study examines the linkages between human health …
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