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-efficiency across generations and sustainability, i.e. non-decreasing utility over time. Our model includes two salient characteristics … of sustainability problems and policy: (i) temporal irreversibility, i.e. the inability to re- vise one’s past actions …”. If initially unforeseen sustainability problems become apparent and policy is enacted after irreversible ac- tions were …
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We study how human preferences affect the resilience of economies that depend on more than one type of natural resources. In particular, we analyze whether the degree of substitutability of natural resources in consumer needs may give rise to multiple steady states and path dependence even when...
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We study the determinants and interactions of sustainability and risk management with a cross-sectional dataset on … sustainability and risk management within this context, identify their determinants and analyse relevant interactions. Our results … interest groups or governmental support, instead, do not impact on the sustainability of the farm. Risk management itself is …
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We develop a comprehensive multi-level approach to ecological economics (CML-approach) which integrates philosophical considerations on the foundations of ecological economics with an adequate operationalization. We argue that the subject matter and aims of ecological economics require a...
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sustainability. To gather this information for an important ecological-economic system, we conducted a survey of commercial cattle … management ; sustainability ; risk …
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While economists have been contributing to the discussion of various aspects of sustainability for decades, it is just … recently that the term "sustainability economics" was used explicitly in the ecological, environmental, and resource economics … community. Yet, the contributions that use the term "sustainability economics" do not refer to any explicit definition of the …
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The guiding principle of sustainability is widely accepted in todayś international policies. The principle contains two … ; sustainability research …
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Resilience as a descriptive concept gives insight into the dynamic properties of a system. Sustainability as a …-economic system and the sustainability criterion, such that a) resilience of the system in a given regime is both necessary and …
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the availability of rain-index insurance affects the sustainability of rangeland management. We show that a rain …-being while not impairing the sustainability of rangeland management. -- Ecological-economic modeling ; weather-index insurance … ; Namibia ; grazing management ; risk ; sustainability ; weather-based derivatives …
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