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Integrating the value of natural capital in evidence-based policy making
Banerjee, Onil; Vargas, Renato; Cicowiez, Martín - 2020
This paper describes how Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) can be integrated into economy wide analytical frameworks to enhance evidence based decision making. Examples from applications of the Integrated Environmental Economic Modelling (IEEM) Platform show how explicitly accounting for the...
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The value of biodiversity in economic decision making : applying the IEEM+ESM approach to conservation strategies in Colombia
Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martín; Malek, Žiga; … - 2020
In this paper we evaluate the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts of strategies for conserving Colombias rich natural capital endowment. Specifically, we consider Government program proposals for establishing Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), implementing more...
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Bundling biodiversity
Heal, Geoffrey - 2002
Biodiversity provides essential services to human societies. Many of these services are provided as public goods, so … cases the public goods provided by biodiversity conservation can be bundled with private goods and their value to consumers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597991
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Valuation of ecosystem services provided by biodiversity conservation : an integrated hydrological and economic model to value the enhanced nitrogen retention in renaturated stream...
Bräuer, Ingo; Marggraf, Rainer - 2004
The importance of ecosystem functions for humankind is well known. But only few attempts have been undertaken to estimate the economic value of these ecosystem services. In particular, indirect methods are rarely used, even though they are most suitable for the task. This discrepancy is because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601166
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Global energy demand in a warming climate
De Cian, Enrica; Wing, Ian Sue - 2016
-induced changes in energy demand are disproportionally larger in tropical regions. South America, Asia, and Africa, increase energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451591
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Impact of climate smart agriculture on food security: an agent-based analysis
Bazzana, Davide; Foltz, Jeremy D.; Zhang, Ying - 2021
The study proposes an agent-based model to investigate how adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) affects food security. The analysis investigates the role of social and ecological pressures (i.e. community network, climate change and environmental externalities) on the adoption of physical...
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Property rights conservation and development : an analysis of extractive reserves in the Brazilian Amazon
Goeschl, Timo; Igliori, Danilo Camargo - 2004
The economic literature of property rights has been assessing the impact of different community based arrangements on the efficiency of natural resource management of specific areas. Differently, other strands of development economics and policy-oriented research have been concerned with issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602533
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Promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency in Africa : a framework to evaluate employment generation and cost-effectiveness
Cantore, Nicola; Nussbaumer, Patrick; Wei, Max; Kammen, … - 2016
methodology for Africa designed to calculate employment from electricity generation in the U.S., this study finds that energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492828
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Calling for nexus thinking in Africa's energy planning
De Strasser, Lucia - 2017
competition. The situation in Africa is particularly problematic, as the continent lags behind all others in terms of quality and …
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Digitalization for energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa : challenges, opportunities and potential business models
Mazzoni, Davide - 2019
collection, are already giving a big contribution in fostering the access to electricity and clean cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa …. This paper gives an overview on the actual state of energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa and the current technologies used … Africa, financial aspects and market analysis. The perspective of both companies and end-users have been considered here. The …
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