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Toward an efficient and sustainable Microinsurance market: The regulatory perspective

Ahsan, Syed M.; Barua, Shubhasish; Tax, Jaimie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

While both microcredit and microinsurance products in the developing world have essentially emerged in a regulatory vacuum, the general consensus appears to be that self-regulation may have thus far served the global microcredit industry adequately. The same premise is likely to be false when it...

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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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Ecosystem Services - Ökonomische Analyse ihres Verlusts, ihre Bewertung und Steuerung

Loft, Lasse; Lux, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The Knowledge Flow Paper at hand gives an overview of the economic reasons for the loss of biodiversity and eco …

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Conservation of invertebrates’ biodiversity in soils of the Republic of Moldova

Senicovscaia, Irina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

represent themselves the standards of the biodiversity for soil invertebrates. The database of the invertebrates’ diversity of … multiannual grasses in a crop rotation system created conditions for the improvement of the invertebrate’s biodiversity in the …

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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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The economic impact of the invasion of Acacia saligna in Israel

Lehrer, David; Becker, Nir; Bar, Pua - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper illustrates the use of alternative, non-market valuation methods to estimate the economic value of ecological damage caused by the invasive plant Acacia saligna. We discuss the motivation to perform an economic valuation for bio-invasion in general and then examine the costs and...

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Green Game and Societal Sustenance: A Case of London Olympic 2012

Dongre, Anil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

that have been made life of human being very smooth but it poses threat to environment in terms of biodiversity destruction … tackling climate change and managing waste efficiently, encouraging biodiversity, setting new standards for the sustainable …

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Social factors influencing the decision to pay for the protection of biodiversity: A case study in two national parks of Northern Greece

Halkos, George; Jones, Nikoleta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

social trust and social networks) on the decision of individuals to pay for the protection of biodiversity. For this purpose …

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Search, bioprospecting, and biodiversity conservation

Costello, Christopher; Ward, Michael B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

-sector conservation. Thus, other mechanisms are likely required to preserve the public good of biodiversity. …

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Pourquoi s'intéresser à la notion d'"Evidence -based policy" ?

Laurent, Catherine; Baudry, Jacques; Berrier-Solliec, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

"Evidence-based medicine” approaches began to be formalized in the early 1990s to promote a conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in decision-making on care for individual patients. These approaches were subsequently extended to other spheres of public decision...

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