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development environment and long-term alternatives in order to improve the quality of life and eliminate possible impoverishment …
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Since its origin, ecotourism development has been at the centre of controversial and heated debates within the environmental and scientific society. On one hand, it has been considered as a model of responsible and sustainable tourism with the capacity to guarantee the conservation of the...
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The changing environment affects agriculture introducing sources of uncertainty. On the other hand, policies to cope … with risks may have strong impacts on the environment. We evaluate the effects of public risk management programmes, such …
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, encompassing culture, education, politics, economics, ethics, environment and the quality of life. …
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irresponsibly. Codes of ethics that require fair treatment of stakeholders while pursuing long-term profit reduce the risk of …
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This paper considers the distribution of responsibility for prevention of negative social or ecological effects of production and consumption. Responsibility is related to ability and ability depends on welfare. An increase in competition between Western companies depresses their profitability,...
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account of social benefits of education. Our short note extends his paper on the social returns to accumulation of human … capital, with particular emphasis on the social returns to education which are given by the sum of the private and external … marginal benefits of a unit of human capital. In other words, we study the problem of human capital externalities which comes …
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account the social benefits of education. Our note extends his paper on the social returns to accumulation of human capital …, with particular emphasis on the social returns to education which are given by the sum of the private and external marginal … benefits of a unit of human capital. In other words, we study the problem of human capital externalities which comes from …
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Neither environmental economics nor environmental philosophy have adequately examined the moral implications of imposing environmental degradation and ecosystem instability upon our descendants. A neglected aspect of these problems is the supposed extent of the burden that the current generation...
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ecosystemic approach to education, culture, environment, health, politics, economics and quality of life should develop the …
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