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Biodiversity conservation, loss of natural capital and interest rates
Tisdell, Clem - In: Ecological Economics 70 (2011) 12, pp. 2511-2515
It is argued that there is neither regular relationship between changes in the level of the market rate of interest and variations in the rate of biodiversity loss nor does such a regular relationship occur between alterations in the market rate of interest and changes in the rate of natural...
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Sustainable Practices and Product Quality : Is There Value in Eco-Label Certification? The Case of Wine
Delmas, Magali A.; Gergaud, Olivier - 2021
In theory, eco-labels have great potential to reduce the environmental and social impact of products via consumer choice. In practice, the diffusion of eco-labels remains limited, with consumers expressing concerns about their value. One problem is a perceived tradeoff between the eco-label...
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Learning-by-doing and the costs of a backstop for energy transition and sustainability
Jouvet, Pierre-André; Schumacher, Ingmar - In: Ecological Economics 73 (2012) C, pp. 122-132
-renewable resource (like oil, coal) in a model of sustainable growth. The prospects for sustainability on the optimal path depend … learning-by-doing in account, we find that this leads to an earlier switching time but does not guarantee sustainability. …
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Prospects for sustainable land-use policy in Germany: Experimenting with a sustainability heuristic
Fischer, Beate; Klauer, Bernd; Schiller, Johannes - In: Ecological Economics 95 (2013) C, pp. 213-220
Land is an essential yet limited natural resource. Its current unsustainable use highlights the need for sustainability … show that the German government is highly unlikely to achieve its declared sustainability goal to reduce the rate of land … the municipal financial system prevents the government's sustainability goals from being achieved. …
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Renewable electricity producing technologies and metal depletion: A sensitivity analysis using the EROI
Fizaine, Florian; Court, Victor - In: Ecological Economics 110 (2015) C, pp. 106-118
More and more attention is being paid to renewable technologies because they are seen as a great opportunity to disengage our society from its dependence on fossil fuels. Such flow-based energy resources that rely on solar energy are supposed to lead us toward a sustainable energy future....
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Climate change and farm-level adaptation decisions and strategies in drought-prone and groundwater-depleted areas of Bangladesh: an empirical investigation
Alauddin, Mohammad; Sarker, Md Abdur Rashid - In: Ecological Economics 106 (2014) C, pp. 204-213
Despite recognizing the vulnerability of Bangladesh's agriculture to climate change, the existing literature pays limited attention to a rigorous, quantitative analysis of farm-level data to investigate rice farmers' preferred adaptation strategies, perceived barriers, and policy implications....
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Inter-district rice water productivity differences in Bangladesh: An empirical exploration and implications
Alauddin, Mohammad; Sharma, Bharat R. - In: Ecological Economics 93 (2013) C, pp. 210-218
While the bulk of research on crop water productivity (WP) focuses on static cross-section analysis, this research provides a spatio-temporal perspective. It estimates rice crop WP for 21 Bangladesh districts for 37years; explores WP variations among districts; and investigates causality...
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Assessing the potential demand for biofuel by combining Economics and Psychology: A focus on proximity applied to Jatropha oil in Africa
Litvine, Dorian; Gazull, Laurent; Dabat, Marie-Hélène - In: Ecological Economics 100 (2014) C, pp. 85-95
Bio-energy demand is known to be influenced by geographical origin and social equity. This paper aims to highlight the influence of the proximity between biomass production and energy consumption on the demand for alternative bio-fuels. In the context of Burkina Faso, we explore potential demand...
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Natural Capital, Subjective Well-Being, and the New Welfare Economics of Sustainability : Some Evidence from Cross-Country Regressions
Engelbrecht, Hans-Jürgen - 2010
’s Millennium Capital Assessment. Bivariate regressions indicate that it is. When a multiple regression model is estimated that … welfare economics of sustainability’ that takes subjective well-being measures into account …
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Organic certification, agro-ecological practices and return on investment: Evidence from pineapple producers in Ghana
Kleemann, Linda; Abdulai, Awudu - In: Ecological Economics 93 (2013) C, pp. 330-341
The recent empirical literature on economic sustainability of certified export crops shows that certification standards …
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