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This paper explores the link between poverty and resource allocation, including the management of natural resources, by …'s investment strategy and, consequently, resource management and household poverty: (i) Changes in output and input prices, and (ii …
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In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing …, we use all commonly used inequality and poverty measures including various Atkinson indexes, Gini index, standard … deviation of the logarithms, relative mean deviation, coefficient of variation, and the poverty rate defined by the U.S. Census …
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communities, have been attributed mainly to the erosion of traditional strategies for natural resources management. In Ghana … in Ghana derives from changes in the perceptions and attitudes of local people towards tumi, the traditional belief in …-savanna transitional zone in Ghana. It would confirm that changes in traditional animist beliefs, such as tumi, which informs the worldview …
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This paper reviews the importance of traditional natural resources management practices in Ghana. It highlights the …-savanna transitional agroecological zone of Ghana to study the spirituality of forests and conservation. Among the major conclusions of the … paper is that although the potential of traditional natural resources management for biodiversity conservation in Ghana is …
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In this paper, we assume that redistribution modifies the community structure of an economy and generates both intra and intergenerational mobility. In a world in which neighbourhood attributes and family backgrounds are important to determine the investment effort and the productivity of...
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This paper considers the relationship between natural resource management and poverty by analysing a specific example … increase employment, and so reduce poverty, without endangering the sustainability of the resource. The techniques used here …
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ecological and economic poverty trap. In contrast with earlier related studies, the emergence of the environmental Kuznets curve …
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This paper estimates the direct and indirect socio-economic impacts of the 2000 flood that took place in the Po river basin (Italy) using a combination of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model and Spatial and Multi-Criteria Analysis. A risk map for the whole basin is generated as a function...
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The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project (http://www.marine-vectors.eu/). The main scope of the project (2011-2015) has been to evaluate, from a multilateral perspective, drivers, pressures and vectors of changes in marine life of three main European seas...
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The objective of the Analytical Strategic Environmental Assessment method is to provide a complementary and decision-centred approach to the SEA process. The focus is to evaluate the decision-making process instead of the quantitative output of an assessment. Thus, the project provides a...
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