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Methods for modeling public policy and investment impacts on the economy, natural capital and ecosystem services
Banerjee, Onil; Crossman, Neville; Vargas, Renato; … - 2020
the economy, society and the environment. In this paper, we review the state of the art in available models and datasets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587560
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Structural change and environmental Kuznets curves
Horbach, Jens - 2002
The Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis (EKC) postulates an inverted u-shaped curve between important pollutants and per capita GDP analogous to the relationship between in-come inequality and income per capita which has been analysed by Kuznets in 1955. The arti-cle focuses on an empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598222
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Working too much in a polluted world : a North-South evolutionary model
Antoci, Angelo; Borghesi, Simone - 2002
This paper examines a simple North-South growth model where negative externalities may contribute to reinforce economic growth. Agents' welfare depends on three goods in the model: leisure, a common access renewable natural resource (one in each hemisphere) and a non-storable consumption good....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598332
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The Basilicata wealth fund : resource policy and long-run economic development in southern Italy
Iacono, Roberto - 2015
This paper contributes to the growing political economy literature of within-country natural resources management, by proposing a new resource policy for the oil-rich southern Italian region of Basilicata. The policy proposal is to establish a (regional) wealth fund in which all the royalty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391851
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Towards sustainable, productive and profitable agriculture : case of rice and sugarcane
Gulati, Ashok; Mohan, Gayathri - 2018
Indian agriculture is estimated to be consuming about 78 percent of total fresh water resources available in the country. Yet, more than half of the gross cropped area is still dependent on rains. Extremely skewed allocation of scarce irrigation water amongst crops and inefficient use of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844300
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Rethinking Venice from an ecosystem services perspective
Da Mosto, Jane; Bertolini, Camilla; Markandya, Anil; … - 2020
Safeguarding the future of Venice is a globally recognised challenge of urban sustainability. We propose a sustainable management model, alternative to the current strategy, that primarily focuses on the built heritage and which interprets the city together with its encircling lagoon as a matrix...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317686
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Integrating the value of natural capital in evidence-based policy making
Banerjee, Onil; Vargas, Renato; Cicowiez, Martín - 2020
) Platform show how explicitly accounting for the contributions of the environment to the economy in economic forecasting can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587530
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Biodiversity and economic growth : stabilization versus preservation of the ecological dynamics
Antoci, Angelo; Borghesi, Simone; Russu, Paolo - 2004
This work examines the impact that economic growth can have on biodiversity and on the ecological dynamics that would … naturally emerge in the absence of human activity. The loss of biodiversity may induce policy-makers to implement defensive … exist in the absence of human intervention. This suggests that there might exist a conflict between preserving biodiversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599727
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Comparison between artisanal fishery and Manila clam harvesting in the Venice Lagoon by using ecosystem indicators : an ecological economics perspective
Granzotto, Angela; Pranovi, Fabio; Libralato, Simone; … - 2004
Artisanal fishery in the Venice lagoon is a multi-target activity with a long tradition. It was the main fishing activity till the late '80s when, after the introduction and spread of the Manila clam (Tapes philippinarum), the mechanical clam harvesting started. A mass-balance model of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606696
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Economic valuation of forest ecosystem services : methodology and monetary estimates
Chiabai, Aline; Travisi, C. M.; Ding, H.; Markandya, A.; … - 2009
where use and non-use values are highest, which includes North America. -- Forest ; Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809695