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Resistance to the Regulation of Common Resources in Rural Tunisia
Liu, Xiaoying; Sarr, Mare; Swanson, Timothy - 2014
We examine the effect of the introduction of uniform water-charging for aquifer management and provide evidence using a survey-based choice experiment of agricultural water users in rural Tunisia. Theoretically, we show that the implementation of the proposed second-best regulation would result...
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Shade-Grown Coffee: Simulation and Policy Analysis for Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico
Blackman, Allen; Albers, Heidi; Batz, Michael; … - 2005
Shade-grown coffee provides a livelihood to many farmers, protects biodiversity, and creates environmental services. Many shade-coffee farmers have abandoned production in recent years, however, in response to declines in international coffee prices. This paper builds a farmer decision model...
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Clean Technological Change in Developing-Country Industrial Clusters: Mexican Leather Tanning
Blackman, Allen; Kildegaard, Arne - 2003
-enhancing technological change. We also find that private-sector trade associations and input suppliers are important sources of technical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005242920
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Internalizing negative environmental impacts from wind power production: Coasian bargaining, offsetting schemes and environmental taxes
Greaker, Mads; Hagem, Cathrine; Skulstad, Andreas - 2022
some monetary price, establishing an offset market for WPP development and combining it with an environmental tax will be … offset market. However, if no more loss of pristine land and biodiversity can be tolerated, compulsory and complete …
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The Benefits and Costs of Fish Consumption Advisories for Mercury
Krupnick, Alan; McGuinness, Meghan; Jakus, Paul - 2002
Mercury contamination of the Chesapeake Bay is a concern to health authorities in the region. We evaluate the economic and health effects of postulated recreational and commercial fishing advisories for striped bass on the Maryland portion of the bay. Awareness of and response to the advisory is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005442470
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Does Tourism Eco-Certification Pay? Costa Rica’s Blue Flag Program
Blackman, Allen; Naranjo, María Angélica; Robalino, Juan - 2012
defined environmental standards—promise to help address this problem by creating a private-sector system of inducements … private benefits, and fixed effects and propensity score matching to control for self-selection bias. We find that past Blue … regression samples. These findings provide some of the first evidence that eco-certification can generate private benefits for …
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Do Entrance Fees Crowd Out Donations for Public Goods? Evidence from a Protected Area in Costa Rica
Alpízar, Francisco; Martinsson, Peter; Nordén, Anna - 2014
In this paper, we investigate how different levels of entrance fees affect donations for a public good, a natural park. To explore this issue, we conducted a stated preference study focusing on visitors’ preferences for donating money to raise funds for a protected area in Costa Rica given...
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Flooding and Resilience: Valuing Conservation Investments in a World with Climate Change
Kousky, Carolyn; Walls, Margaret; Chu, Ziyan - 2013
Communities in the United States are showing increasing interest in the use of forests, wetlands, and other natural areas to provide protection against extreme events. As the climate changes and such events become more frequent and/or more severe, investments in the conservation of natural areas...
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Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia: Does Agroecology Matter?
Kassie, Menale; Zikhali, Precious; Pender, John; … - 2011
This paper uses data from household- and plot-level surveys conducted in the highlands of the Tigray and Amhara regions of Ethiopia to examine the contribution of sustainable land-management practices to net values of agricultural production in areas with low- and high-agricultural potential. A...
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Market Imperfections and Farm Technology Adoption Decisions: A Case Study from the Highlands of Ethiopia
Yesuf, Mahmud; Köhlin, Gunnar - 2008
This paper investigates the impacts of market and institutional imperfections on technology adoption in a model that … adopts soil conservation. The reverse causality, however, was insignificant. We also found that outcomes of market … factors in explaining variations in farm technology adoption decisions. Relieving the existing market imperfections will most …
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