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, even for tourism purposes, natural, historical and cultural resources subject to restrictions in the territory. This … contribution describes the research process activated for the definition of a tourism development strategy in the youngest Italian … been developed from a tourism point of view and it has an "eclectic" naturalist value characterised by flora on one hand …
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Tourism and environmental preservation are often conflicting activities, mainly in areas such as coastal lagoons, where … seaside mass-tourism comes into contact with a very sensitive ecological system. In this paper we deal with a classical … problem of both environmental and tourism economics, the internalization of environmental costs of tourism, focusing on the …
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Environmental resources constitute the 'raw materials' for tourism. This sector represents the driving force behind the …. This work systematically examines the effects and the feedbacks that the economy of tourism may generate in small areas …
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This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints. A unique final good is produced by combining inputs from two sectors. One of these sectors uses "dirty" machines and thus creates environmental degradation. Research can be directed...
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This paper discusses the growth model with environmental constraints recently presented in (Acemoglu et al., 2011) which focuses on the redirection of technical change by climate policies with research subsidies and a carbon tax. First, Acemoglu et al.'s model and chosen parameters yield...
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This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational policies. Using recent empirical estimates, human capital and general purpose R&D are introduced in an integrated assessment model that has been extensively applied to study climate...
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This study examines and provides reasons for the stalled implementation of an integrated approach to addressing security, environment and development challenges in Zone 3 of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR). Zone 3, which covers the borderlands connecting Uganda,...
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(GHG) emissions could reduce the sustainability of those tourism experiences. In this paper we study the bike tourists … observations from an on-line survey on bike tourism in 2020 in Italy, we develop a bivariate probit model, considering socio …
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Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good … option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 tourism countries within a sample of … that the tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub-groups considered in our analysis (OECD, Oil …
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