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El Niño and Indian droughts: A scoping exercise

Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2014

Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to lead to droughts. In the last 14 years, out of the four El Niño years globally, three resulted in Indian droughts. Since the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in...

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Credit policy for agriculture in India: An evaluation. Supporting Indian farms the smart way. Rationalising subsidies and investments for faster, inclusive and sustainable growth

Hoda, Anwarul; Terway, Prerna - 2015

, the Central Government and the Reserve Bank of India have been making efforts to enhance institutional credit in rural … areas particularly to assist in agricultural operations. It began with the enactment of the Co-operative Credit Societies … noninstitutional lenders still account for only 36 per cent of the total outstanding agricultural loan, the short-term credit from …

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Allowing for household preferences in emission trading-A contribution to the climate policy debate

Ahlheim, Michael; Schneider, Friedrich - 2000

In the context of emission trading it seems to be taken as given that people's preferences can be ignored with respect to the whole process of fixing emission targets and allocating emission permits to polluters. With this paper we want to reopen the debate on how citizens can be involved in...

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Satisfaction with Democracy and Collective Action Problems: The Case of the Environment

Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich; Wagner, Alexander - 2008

Using modern methods for analyzing multi-level data, we find that, by and large, citizens of OECD countries are more satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality is higher. We also document that parents care...

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Corrective Taxation of a Consumption Externality in the Presence of an Optimal Non-linear Income Tax

Josefsson, Anneli - 1997

This paper is concerned with the problem of combining a non-linear income tax with an indirect externality correcting tax. The analysis is performed in a model economy with two types of individuals and two types of consumption goods. The government wants to redistribute from the more able...

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Is There A Green Link A Panel Data Value Event Study Of The Relationship Between Capital Markets And Toxic Releases

Ananthanarayanan, Amarnath - 1998

This paper attempts to look at the effectiveness of public provision of pollution information in providing incentives for firms to control pollution. This is achieved by examining the effect of release of pollution information on the market value of firms. The paper conducts a value event study...

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A comprehensive evaluation of the EU's biofuel policy: From biofuels to agrofuels

Murnaghan, Kitty - 2017

During a time in which the subject of climate change is deemed high on the list of priorities of many governments, it is important to assess to what extent policies in this field are achieving meaningful results. The link between energy usage and global warming is clear and today in the European...

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The role of the Eastern member states in the European Union's energy and climate policy

Olgun, Cenk - 2017

The European Union has been prizing itself for being the global leader in terms of climate change; its triptych approach and the 20-20-20 targets were certainly an enviable effort prior to the United Nations Convention. However, with the economic crisis having left its mark, there has been a...

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Economics of Multifunctional Forestry in the Sámi People Homeland Region

Parkatti, Vesa-Pekka; Tahvonen, Olli - 2020

We study forestry in the Sámi people homeland region to understand an ongoing conflict between conventional forest logging and maintaining forests as reindeer pastures for indigenous people. We use a detailed model that simultaneously includes timber production, carbon storage in living...

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The Circular City and the Building Sector

Franz, Gianfranco - 2020

The essay deals with the issue of urban circularity understood as a subset of the Circular Economy paradigm, highlighting potential and limits of an emerging new model spreading on a global scale. The critical reasoning starts from a very recent production of institutional documents and the...

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