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Simple Myths and Basic Maths About Greening Irrigation
Gomez, Carlos - 2015
Greening the economy is mostly about improving water governance and not only about putting the existing resource saving technical alternatives into practice. Focusing on the second and forgetting the first risks finishing with a highly efficient use of water services at the level of each...
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Periurban Agriculture : Do the Current EU Agri-Environmental Policy Programmes Fit with it?
Arata, Linda - 2018
In the European Union (EU) periurban agriculture is under the same agri-environmental policy regime designed for general agriculture. We argue that the specific needs of periurban agriculture may justify ad hoc agri-environmental policy measures. We present results from a Choice Experiment (CE)...
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A review of macroeconomic models for the WEFE nexus assessment
Castelli, Chiara; Castellini, Marta; Ciola, Emanuele; … - 2022
The Water, Energy, Food and Ecosystems (WEFE) nexus refers to the system of complex and highly non-linear interconnections between these four elements. It now represents the basic framework to assess and design policies characterized by an holistic environmental end economical perspective. In...
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Can Numerical Models Estimate Indirect Land-Use Change?
Brunelle, Thierry; Dumas, Patrice - 2012
Motivated by the conclusions from various modelling studies, modifications to the bioenergy sector regulations are under way in Europe and in the USA to account for emissions from indirect land-use change (ILUC). Despite their influence on the policy-making, evaluations of the capacity of...
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Predicting the Deforestation - Trend Under Different Carbon - Prices
Kindermann, Georg E. - 2007
Background: Global carbon stocks in forest biomass are decreasing by 1.1 Gt of carbon annually, owing to continued deforestation and forest degradation. Deforestation emissions are partly offset by forest expansion and increases in growing stock primarily in the extra-tropical north. Innovative...
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Designing a Decision Support System for Marine Reserves Management : An Economic Analysis for the Dutch North Sea
Ding, Helen; Ruijs, Arjan; van Ierland, Ekko - 2007
dispersal of fish and considers both the economic returns from fisheries and the ecological value of marine biodiversity. A …
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Biodiversity Valuation in Developing Countries : A Focus on Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Teelucksingh, Sonja S. - 2014
greater understanding of the significant role of biodiversity in rural communities of developing countries who depend most on … input of biodiversity in developing countries to the provision of the ecosystem goods and services (EGS) that are essential … a necessary tool for achieving this objective. However, valuing biodiversity in a developing country context can be an …
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Assessing the Impact of Biodiversity on Tourism Flows : A Model for Tourist Behaviour and its Policy Implications
Macagno, Giulia - 2014
This analysis provides an example of how biodiversity can be measured by means of different indicators, and how the … latter can be used to assess the influence of the biodiversity profile of a region on the tourism flows towards it. Previous … hypothesis of this paper is that the destination's biodiversity profile can be considered as a key component of environmental …
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A Bug's Life : Competition Among Species Towards the Environment
Bella, Giovanni - 2007
A model of different species competing for the same environment is presented, and possible explanations of peaceful coexistence or rather internecine conflicts are consequently derived. By means of a Lotka-Volterra dynamic system we describe the evolution of two populations (bees and locusts)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731844
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Carbon Sequestration With Reforestations and Biodiversity - Scenic Values
Caparros, Alejandro - 2015
values, carbon sequestration and biodiversity or scenic values. We solve the model qualitatively with general functions and … sequestration may have negative impacts on biodiversity-scenic values. To evaluate the practical relevance, we compare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707875