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Strategies for Sustainable and Inclusive Agriculture Development in Jharkhand
Singh, Vivek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Despite having rich mineral and biotic resources with some of India’s most industrialized cities, Jharkhand is amongst the third poorest state in India. The rural economy is dominated by smallholder rain-fed farming and use of extensive common property resources. In this paper, an attempt is...
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Environmental attitude, motivations and values for marine biodiversity protection
Halkos, George; Matsiori, Steriani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This study explores people’s environmental attitudes and motives for putting economic values to marine biodiversity and … values were derived from a referendum, contingent valuation method (CVM) survey for protecting marine biodiversity. Use of … individuals’ opinions about marine biodiversity utility. Pro-environmental behavior or attitudes are associated with higher NEP …
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Modelling biodiversity
Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This study uses a sample of 71 countries and nonparametric quantile and partial regressions to model a number of threatened species (reptiles, mammals, fish, birds, trees, plants) in relation to various economic and environmental variables (GDPc, CO¬2 emissions, agricultural production, energy...
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Biodiversity and economic growth: stabilization versus preservation of the ecological dynamics
Antoci, Angelo; Borghesi, Simone; Russu, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This work examines the impact that economic growth can have on biodiversity and on the ecological dynamics that would … naturally emerge in the absence of human activity. The loss of biodiversity may induce policy-makers to implement defensive … exist in the absence of human intervention. This suggests that there might exist a conflict between preserving biodiversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787201
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Do Sufficient Institutions Alter the Relationship between Natural Resources and Economic Growth?
Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to test whether institutional governance and its performance is a main driving force to achieve a positive relationship between natural resources and economic growth in the long run. The main objective is to ascertain what kind of institutional governance would be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056564
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Simple taxation schemes on non–renewable resources extraction
Halkos, George; Papageorgiou, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Traditional economic theory, up to the middle of the twentieth century, builds up the production functions regardless of the inputs’ scarcity. In the last few decades it has become clear that in many cases inputs are depletable quantities and at the same time a lot of constraints are imposed...
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Natural resources royalties and local development in Colombia
Nieto, Barreto; Alberto, Carlos; Linares, Jose; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The purpose of this research is to evaluate the hypothesis of differentiated growth in the municipalities of Colombia which receives rents from exploitation of non-renewable natural resources in comparison with the rest of the country. A specific strategy is to estimate the empirical evidence...
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Deforestation Impact on the Household Sustainable Local Development: Nicaragua case, 1998-2005.
Gonzalez, Zuniga; Alberto, Carlos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
he paper analyzes the deforestation problem and its Sustainable Local Development (SLD) impact, during 1998-2005 periods. A stochastic frontier production function is defined for panel data of farm-specific variables. The inefficiency effects are assumed to be independently distributed as...
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Dynamic modeling of pulse fishing: A game theoretic approach
Halkos, George; Papageorgiou, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper is concerned with the classic topic of intertemporal resource economics: the optimal harvesting of renewable natural resources over time by one and several resource owners with conflicting interests. The traditional management model, dating back to Plourde (1970), is extended towards...
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Analysis on Conflicts of China’s Coal Tax Reform
Wang, Dong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper investigates the conflicts which are resulted from coal tax reform in China from economic and public policy perspectives. An analytical framework involving actors, values, interests and institution has been applied. China’s central government eagers to achieve fiscal revenue...
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