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Valuing mangrove-fishery linkages: A case study of Campeche, Mexico

Barbier, Edward B.; Strand, Ivar E. - 1997

important and essential input into the Campeche shrimp fishery, but that low levels of deforestation between 1980 and 1990 mean …

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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. First Volume

Recchia, Virginia - 1999

Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk communication is a relatively new field based on a...

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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. Second Volume

Recchia, Virginia - 1999

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Does S. Kuznets' belief question the environmental Kuznets curves?

Bousquet, Alain; Favard, Pascal - 2000

This paper examines the link between pollution and income. It shows how income inequality affects environmental … policies and therefore pollution. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis proposes that there is an inverted U …

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Land reform policies: The sources of violent conflict and implications for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Alston, Lee J.; Libecap, Gary D.; Mueller, Bernardo - 2001

We examine land reform policies and their implications for violent conflict over land and resource use in the Brazilian Amazon. We identify the protagonists (land owners and squatters), derive their incentives to use violence, and show the role of legal inconsistencies as a basis for conflict....

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Is the Discount Rate Relevant in Explaining the Environmental Kuznets Curve?

Di Vita, Giuseppe - 2003

the income-pollution pattern observed in the real world. Low levels of income involve high values of discount rate, that … are obstacles to the adoption of a pollution abatement policy. Only when the discount rate falls, as a consequence of …-shaped income-pollution pattern, making use of an argument that has never yet been introduced in the economic debate on this issue. …

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Optimal climate policy under the possibility of a catastrophe

Gjerde, Jon; Grepperud, Sverre; Kverndokk, Snorre - 1998

This paper concerns optimal emissions of greenhouse gases when catastrophic consequences are possible. A numerical model is presented which takes into account both continuous climate-feedback damages as well as the possibility of a catastrophic outcome. The uncertainty in the model concerns...

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Valuing damages for green accounting purposes: The GARP II approach

Markandya, Anil; Hunt, Alistair; Mason, Pamela - 2000

This paper reports the results of a four country project (GARPII) on aspects of green accounting, namely the estimation of damages to air and water. The countries covered are Germany, Italy, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. It follows an earlier project covering the same countries, which was...

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US land policy, property rights, and the dust bowl of the 1930s

Libecap, Gary D.; Hansen, Zeynep K. - 2001

The process of assigning property rights to land in the American Great Plains resulted in farms that were too small to be economically viable. These farms were prime contributors to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. The path dependence resulting from the initial assignment of property rights on the...

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The environmental Kuznets curve from mulitple perspectives

Jaeger, William K.; Kolpin, Van - 2008

The analysis finds that in addition to U-shaped paths of environmental quality arising for growth in income per capita, growth in population can also produce socially efficient patterns that are U-shaped. Sufficient conditions for both types of paths are identified for a range of models and...

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