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Determining the environmental effects of indirect subsidies

Beers, Cees van; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Moor, … - 2004

Up to now a clear theoretical and methodological framework for economic-environmental analysis of environmentally damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at achieving a certain (often non-environmental) goal that...

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Urban expansion or clustered deconcentration?

Vermeulen, Wouter; Rouwendal, Jan - 2008

How should urban containment and the diversion of households to nearby residential areas be evaluated from a welfare economic perspective? Assuming the existence of a negative externality of city size, we develop a concise general equilibrium model for a mother city and a satellite. This...

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The impact of mixed land use on residential property values

Koster, Hans; Rouwendal, Jan - 2010 - This version: October 15, 2010

Contemporary European urban planning policies aim to mix land uses in compact neighbourhoods. It is presumed that mixing land uses yields socio-economic benefits and therefore has a positive effect on housing values. In this paper, we investigate the impact of mixed land use on housing values...

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Residents' benefits evaluation of urban development plans : a willingnes-to-accept model for a multi-functional land use project in Amsterdam

Rodenburg, Caroline A.; Nijkamp, Peter; Groot, Henri L. … - 2009

Urban re-development projects may generate various positive as well as negative spatial externalities to the existing population in a given area. This study aims to assess the order of magnitude of the expected net benefits for incumbent residents from a large scale project in the Southern part...

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Sustainable nations : what do aggregate indicators tell us?

Pillarisetti, Janaki Ram; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007

What is a 'sustainable nation’ and how can we identify and rank ‘sustainable nations’? Are nations producing and consuming in a sustainable way? Aggregate indicators have been proposed to answer these questions. This paper quantitatively compares three aggregate indicators of...

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Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007

Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...

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Economic evaluation, land/water use, and sustainable nature conservation of "De Vechtstreek" wetlands

Bos, Ernst J.; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 1998

Elements of an integrated analysis of a land/water use and nature conservation in De Vechtstreek area are presented …. These are used in an illustrative cost-benefit analysis of a change to more nature conservation in De Vechtstreek. The … concluded that the nature conservation is a rational economic strategy for discount rates below 13% for a time horizon of 10 …

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Ecological-economic analysis of wetlands

Turner, Robert Kerry; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; … - 1998

Wetlands all over the world have been lost or are threatened in spite of various international agreements and national policies. This is caused by: (1) the public nature of many wetlands products and services; (2) user externalities imposed on other stakeholders; and (3) policy intervention...

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Spatial economic-hydroecological modelling and evaluation of land use impacts in the Vecht wetlands area

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Barendregt, A.; … - 2000

, infrastructure, agriculture, recreation and nature conservation. The formulation of alternative development scenarios is dominated by …

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Globalisation and nature policy : an integrated environmental-economic framework

Heide, C. Martijn van der; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; … - 1999

The search for a framework to study globalisation, economics and ecology for nature conservation andbiodiversity …-benefit analysis. Recently, the conservation and valuation of biodiversity, and theresilience of ecological and combined ecological … frameworks and models toaddress pressing policy questions relating to globalisation, conservation of biodiversity, sustainable …

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