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Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics : opportunities and challenges

Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - 2018

This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...

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Nautical patrol and illegal fishing practices

Kastoryano, Stephen; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2022

We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...

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Entrepreneurship Is dangerously obsessed with growth and incompatible with current visions of a post-growth society

Naudé, Wim - 2024

. Green growth and sustainable entrepreneurship are exposed as oxymorons. Given the dangers and the impossibility of perpetual …

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A review of the circular economy and its implementation

Heshmati, Almas - 2015

Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...

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An empirical survey of the ramifications of a green economy

Heshmati, Almas - 2014

The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic … best measures affecting the establishment of the Green Economy - including its development and outcomes. This paper … provides a survey of the green economy in self-contained form and accessible to the non-specialist readers. First, it reviews …

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Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children?

Lockwood, Ben; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022

Are 'green' environmental concerns - about climate change, biodiversity, pollution - deterring today's citizens from … of initially childless men and women in the UK. Those individuals who are committed to a green lifestyle are found to be …

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Capital fundamentalism and structural transformation

Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rammohan, Anu - 2021

We revisit the role of Capital Fundamentalism, in the context of the Government of Indonesia's Inpres Desa Tertinggal (IDT or Left Behind Village) Program, which injected capital into poor village economies. We evaluate the impact of the program on village welfare and structural transformation...

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Social evolution, corporate culture, and exploitation

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002

It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...

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Environmental federalism : a survey of the empirical literature

Millimet, Daniel L. - 2013

Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the "optimal" level of government at which to delegate environmental policymaking. Although this issue receives widespread attention across the globe, opinions run the gamut. The diversity of views plays out in practice as well as different...

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Evaluating environmental programs : the perspective of modern evaluation research

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001

Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental economics...

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