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Agriculture, Water Resources and Water Policies in Italy

Massarutto, Antonio - 1999

agriculture and water resources, and emphasis on underground resources. Our objective is mainly descriptive at this level …; nonetheless, we try to evaluate patterns of interaction between agriculture and water resources policy from the point of view of … analysis of the most important issues and ongoing policies. We show that the link between agriculture and groundwater is but …

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Controlling groundwater pollution from agricultural nonpoint sources: An overview of policy instruments

Dosi, Cesare; Zeitouni, Naomi - 2000

The aim of this paper is to provide a review of policy instruments aimed at controlling pollution from agricultural diffuse sources, and compare their pros and cons. The review also includes a description of instruments introduced through recent reforms of the European Common Agricultural Policy...

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Willingness to pay for rural landscape preservation: A case study in Mediterranean agriculture

Cicia, Gianni; Scarpa, Riccardo - 2000

rural landscape preservation, are inadequate in the context of typical Mediterranean agriculture. Here the main cause of …

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Assessing Climate Change Impacts: Agriculture

Bosello, Francesco; Zhang, Jian - 2005

The economy-wide implications of climate change on agricultural sectors in 2050 are estimated using a static computable general equilibrium model. Peculiar to this exercise is the coupling of the economic model with a climatic model forecasting temperature increase in the relevant year and with...

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Discounting environmental effects in project appraisal

Percoco, Marco - 2002

The aim of this paper is to present an alternative methodology for discounting far distant future externalities genereted by an investment project: time-declining discount rates. First I present the experimental evidence on individuals' time-inconsistency. Second I consider the theoretical...

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Environmental effects of consumption: An approach using DEA and cost sharing

Keiding, Hans - 2002

In the paper we propose an to evaluation of the environmental effects of consumption activities. The approach consists of two steps, namely (1) assignment of environmental effects to consumption activities, for which we propose to use the methods of (multidimensional) cost sharing, and (2) a...

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Integrating Brazilian national priorities and policies in global environmental issues

Seroa da Motta, Ronaldo - 1999

Adoption of climate change response options generates not only global carbon-saving benefits but also local externalities, here denominated as secondary benefits. So far funding for global warming response options, such as GEF, has discriminated against secondary benefits (SD) in their project...

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Endogenous growth and negative externalities

Bartolini, Stefano; Bonatti, Luigi - 1999

In this paper, the expansion of private production erodes the quality of commonly owned goods, thereby forcing individuals to rely increasingly on private goods to satisfy their needs. In the face of this deterioration, households keep their labour supplies and saving rates relatively high in...

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Fixed Instruments to Cope with Stock Externalities An Experimental Evaluation

Giordana, Gastón; Willinger, Marc - 2007

We evaluate the effectiveness of non optimal and temporally inconsistent incentive policies for regulating the exploitation of a renewable common-pool resource. The corresponding game is an N-person discrete-time deterministic dynamic game of T periods fixed duration. Three policy instruments...

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Environmental Resources Depletion and Interplay Between Negative and Positive Externalities in a Growth Model

Antoci, Angelo - 2005

We analyse growth dynamics in an economy where the well-being of economic agents depends on three goods: leisure, a free access environmental good and a private good which can be produced by each agent through his own labour input. The private good can be consumed as a substitute for the...

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