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Environmental Participation and Environmental Motivation

Torgler, Benno; Valiñas, María A. García; Macintyre, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

We explore whether environmental motivation affects environmental behavior by focusing on volunteering. The paper first introduces a theoretical model of volunteering in environmental organizations. In a next step, it tests the hypothesis working with a large micro data set covering 32 countries...

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Tradable Landuse Rights for Biodiversity Conservation: An Application to Canada's Boreal Mixedwood Forest

Weber, Marian - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

Ecological reserve networks are an important strategy for conserving biodiversity. One approach to selecting reserves is to use optimization algorithms that maximize an ecological objective function subject to a total reserve area constraint. Under this approach, economic factors such as...

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Private Options to Use Public Goods Exploiting Revealed Preferences to Estimate Environmental Benefits

Snyder, Lori D.; Stavins, Robert N.; Wagner, Alexander F. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

We develop and apply a new method for estimating the economic benefits of an environmental amenity. The method fits within the household production framework (Becker 1965), and is based upon the notion of estimating the derived demand for a privately traded option to utilize a freely-available...

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On The Economic Value of Repeated Interactions Under Adverse Selection

Rocco, Lorenzo; Chillem, Ottorino - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

The paper studies, in a repeated interaction setting, how the presence of cooperative agents in a heterogeneous community organized in groups affects efficiency and group stability. The paper expands on existing literature by assuming that each type can profitably mimic other types. It is shown...

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Contagious Cooperation, Temptation, and Ecosystem Collapse

Richter, Andries; Soest, Daan van; Grasman, Johan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Real world observations suggest that social norms of cooperation can be effective in overcoming social dilemmas such as the joint management of a common pool resource – but also that they can be subject to slow erosion and sudden collapse. We show that these patterns of erosion and collapse...

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Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

Tirole, Jean; Bénabou, Roland - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Society’s demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and …” of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which reflects a complex interplay of genuine altruism, social or self … image concerns, and material incentives. We then link individual concerns to corporate social responsibility, contrasting …

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The Influence of Climate Change Considerations on Energy Policy: The Case of Russia

Markandya, Anil; Golub, Alexander; Strukova, E. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

To those working on climate change it is obvious that energy policy should be influenced by climate change considerations. The question that this paper seeks to answer is, to what extent do they influence policy and what contribution can a careful analysis of the costs and benefits of climate...

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Monetary Value Assessment of Clam Fishing Management Practices in the Venice Lagoon: Results from a Stated Choice Exercise

Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Rossetto, Luca; Blaeij, Arianne de - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This article focuses on the economic valuation of alternative clam management practices in the Venice Lagoon. The proposed valuation method is characterized by the design of a survey questionnaire next to the fishermen population. In each questionnaire two fishing alternatives are described. The...

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Sticks and Carrots for the Design of International Climate Agreements with Renegotiations

Weikard, Hans-Peter; Dellink, Rob - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

This paper examines stability of international climate agreements for carbon abatement under an optimal transfer rule and renegotiations. The optimal transfer rule suggested to stabilise international environmental agreements (Weikard 2005, Carraro, Eyckmans and Finus 2006) is no longer optimal...

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Analysis and Evaluation of Ecosystem Resilience: An Economic Perspective

Vergano, Lucia; Nunes, Paulo A.L.D. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper focuses on the analyses and evaluation of resilience anchored in an economic perspective. Resilience, as well as most of the benefits provided by ecosystems, is not priced on current markets. However, this does not mean that resilience is of no value for humans. On the contrary, the...

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