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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608326
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Agricultural insurances based on meteorological indices: realizations, methods and research agenda
Leblois, Antoine; Quirion, Philippe - 2010
In many low-income countries, agriculture is mostly rainfed and yields highly depend on climatic factors. Furthermore, farmers have little access to traditional crop insurance, which suffers from high information asymmetry and transaction costs. Insurances based on meteorological indices could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272387
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Sustainability and Optimality in Economic Development: Theoretical Insights and Policy Prospects
Farzin, Y. Hossein - 2007
This paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal development path can also be sustainable. It argues that the general "zero-net-aggregate-investment" condition for an optimal development path to be sustainable in the sense of...
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Criteria for Assessing Sustainable Development: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence for the Case of Greece
Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Vouvaki, Dimitra - 2005
We formulate two kinds of sustainability criteria by using feedback and arbitrary rules for selecting policy variables in non optimizing economies. We show that when policy variables are selected arbitrarily their accounting prices could determine sustainability in addition to the accounting...
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Forest resource extraction by local communities: A comparative dynamic analysis
Gunatilake, Herath M.; Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2000
Much of the world's gene pool is located in tropical rainforests, which are being destroyed at an alarming rate. Proper management of protected forests is crucial to avoid further loss of forest resources and biodiversity. Resource extraction by local communities has been cited as a major...
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Non-pecuniary Value of Employment and Natural Resource Extinction
Farzin, Y. Hossein; Akao, Ken-Ichi - 2006
We assume that people value employment not only to earn income to satisfy their consumption needs but also as a means of community/social involvement that provides socio-psychological (non-pecuniary) benefits. We show that the latter incentive can encourage full employment harvesting resources...
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North/South contractual design through the REDD+ scheme
Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Poudou, Jean-Christophe; … - 2012
In this paper we aim at theoretically grounding the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation … incomplete information about reference levels of deforestation as well as exogenous implementation and transaction costs, we … compare two types of contracts: a deforestation performance-based contract and a conditional avoided deforestation …
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A model of optimal labour and soil use with shifting cultivation
Pascual, Unai; Barbier, Edward - 2001
This paper analyses the relationship between rural poverty and soil degradation in the context of a shifting cultivating community. A deterministic optimal control model demonstrates how a representative household's labour allocation affects the natural resource base on which its livelihood...
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Using Degree Days to Value Farmland
Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert; Chonabayashi, Shun - 2015
Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...
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Agri-Environmental Policies in a Transition Economy: Using a Choice Experiment to Value Agricultural Biodiversity on Hungarian Small Farms
Birol, Ekin; Gyovai, Ágnes; Smale, Melinda - 2004
Agricultural biodiversity is a crucial environmental resource. Much of the agricultural biodiversity remaining today is found on the semi-subsistence farms of poorer countries and on the small-scale farms and home gardens of more industrialised nations. The traditional Hungarian home gardens,...
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