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Not much attention has been given to protest responses in choice experiments (CE). Using follow-up statements, we are able to identify protest responses and compute welfare estimates with and without the inclusion of such protest responses. We conclude that protest responses are fairly common in...
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in a normative analytical framework, with an illustration on hurricane flood risks in New Orleans. It concludes that …
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(IAMs) that consolidate interdisciplinary climate research inputs to obtain a carbon price estimate relevant for policy …-making. However, the climate economy interactions of IAMs remain inaccessible to scientists in general. Here we develop a simple …
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sustainable water management in a climate change perspective, in two river basins in Europe and Asia. The paper describes the … methodology implemented through local workshops, aimed at eliciting and evaluating possible responses to flood risk. Participatory …
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stimulated by a climate policy to stabilize Greenhouse Gases concentrations at 550ppm CO2-eq at the end of the century. We focus …
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Composite indicators are becoming increasingly infuential tools of environmental assessment and advocacy. Nonetheless, their use is controversial as they often rely on ad-hoc and theoretically problematic assumptions regarding normalization, aggregation, and weighting. Nonparametric data...
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This paper is based on empirical research on a taxonomy of technological environmental innovations. It draws on a databank with over 500 examples of new technologies (materials, products, processes and practices) which come with benign environmental effects. The approaches applied to...
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individual’s direct experience of climate change and (c) self-interest, either monetary or status-driven. Drawing on a variety of …. Evidence shows that increasing the public’s scientific knowledge of climate change cannot unilaterally bring about a strong … steer people towards inaction and apathy, despite their direct experience of the detrimental effects of climate change on …
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USA, Canada and Argentina have challenged before the World Trade Organisation the European Communities’ (EC) denial of Genetically Modified (GM) product imports, which took place from 1998 to 2004 . Against this background, the goal of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we will determine which...
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climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its … initiatives, and unilateral actions. Although most studies on climate change policies in economics have considered efficiency … aspects, there is a growing literature on equity and justice. Climate change policy has important dimensions of distributive …
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