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Economic analysis, sustainability and environmental commons
Musu, Ignazio - 2013
issues: climate change and biodiversity. Involvement of governments and a reference framework provided by intergovernmental …
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Economic land use, ecosystem services and microfounded species dynamics
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2004
species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450672
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Inequality and the value of public natural capital
Meya, Jasper; Baumgärtner, Stefan; Drupp, Moritz A.; … - 2020
We study how income inequality affects the social value of a dynamic public good, such as natural capital. Our theory … values between study and policy contexts, or to up-scale values from study sites to the national scale. Our theory provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387514
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Prevention and mitigation of epidemics : biodiversity conservation and confinement policies
Augeraud-Véron, Emmanuelle; Fabbri, Giorgio; Schubert, … - 2020
This paper presents a first model integrating the relation between biodiversity loss and zoonose pandemic risks in a … preserve a greater quantity of biodiversity, thus decreasing the probability of a pandemic occurring, and second (mitigation … biodiversity conservation is shown to be more relevant for more "forward looking" societies, with a small discount rate and a high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263718
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Biodiversity and geography
Rauscher, Michael (contributor); Barbier, Edward (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498741
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Bequests, control rights, and cost-benefit analysis
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Niskanen, Esko - 2001
Consider a public project which produces a consumption good and which benefits future generations. Let a conventional cost-benefit analysis find that it gives higher benefits than projects it would dis-place in the private sector. Voters may nevertheless oppose the public project: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400766
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Discounting in an uncertain world : disentangling the debate on the Weitzman-Gollier puzzle
Buchholz, Wolfgang - 2014
Under conditions of risk it makes a difference whether the discount rate is determined as an expected present or as an expected future value. This difference which is dubbed as the Weitzman-Gollier puzzle has stimulated an intensive discussion which, however, is somewhat confusing. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412052
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Risk aversion and the value of risk to life
Bommier, Antoine; Villeneuve, Bertrand - 2004
This paper argues for an alternative methodology to estimate the value of risk to life. By relaxing the assumption of additive separability, we introduce risk aversion with respect to the length of life and show that the extended model better fits available data. This is crucial for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450654
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Valuing public goods : the life satisfaction approach
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
This paper discusses a novel approach to elicit people s preferences for public goods, namely the life satisfaction approach. Reported subjective well-being data are used to directly evaluate utility consequences of public goods. The strengths of this approach are compared to traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402544
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Discounting and climate policy
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2020
The social rate of discount is a crucial driver of the social cost of carbon (SCC), i.e. the expected present discounted value of marginal damages resulting from emitting one ton of carbon today. Policy makers should set carbon prices to the SCC using a carbon tax or a competitive permits...
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