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In order to complete cost benefit analyses of acidification policies, an attempt was made to monetarize the benefits of increased nature quality. So far, several benefits of acidification abatement, such as reduced health risks, had been determined, but the benefits of increased nature quality...
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This paper presents the results of a cost-benefit analysis of a conservation program for the Pentro horse. This horse breed has been reared for millennia in a Southern Italian wetland where it is now strongly tied to the traditions of the region, but presently faces extinction as only 150 horses...
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This paper provides an assessment of the economic value of the oceanographic services provided by the Mediterranean operational forecasting system, MFSTEP. The main purpose of this exploratory study is to carry out a cost-benefit analysis for different development scenarios, by comparing the...
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This paper reports the results from a contingent valuation study designed to investigate the influence of warm glow in willingness-to-pay responses. Interindividual differences in warm glow motivation are measured through a factor analysis, performed on a list of attitudinal items. The reported...
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The security of natural gas supply is an important issue for all EU countries due to the region's heavy dependence on imported supply sources and in light of energy demand for gas that is continuously increasing. Discussions have emphasised strategies for securing the supply at the macro level,...
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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 …
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Bioprospection practices have proliferated as biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies engage in the collection and genetic screening of biological and genetic resources throughout the world. The purpose of this article is to examine the competing proposals for the institutional framing of...
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In previous papers we have considered the optimal mix of biodiversity in semi-arid rangelands, focusing on the steady … trajectory of biodiversity change. There are two issues involved in the question of timing. One is the uncertainty associated …
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Reduction of the earth’s biodiversity as a result of human activities is a matter of great concern to prominent … scientists. What are the economic aspects of this loss? In economic terms, what is biodiversity and why might it matter? And is … the loss of biodiversity in any way connected with globalization of the economy? …
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creating markets for biodiversity. In the paper we conclude that the success of a policy instrument for creating markets for … biodiversity depends on the nature crucial factors, including the ability of the policy instrument to deal with (a) the public good … nature of most of the nonmarket biodiversity benefits; (b) the asymmetric informational characteristics related to the …
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