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The role of landscape amenities in regional development : a survey of migration, regional economic and hedonic pricing studies
Waltert, Fabian; Schläpfer, Felix - 2007
functions. Using this definition we identify thirty-nine relevant studies that use either migration or regional economic models … or hedonic pricing techniques. One result from the analysis of migration and regional economic studies is that intra … coordination of regional and environmental policies. -- landscape amenities ; migration ; local development ; hedonic models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892447
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Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods
Schläpfer, Felix; Schmitt, Marcel; Roschewitz, Annette - 2007
This paper examines the role of simplified heuristics in the formation of preferences for public goods. Political scientists have suggested that voters use simplified heuristics based on the positions of familiar parties to infer how a proposed policy will affect them and to cast a vote in line...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892449
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Economic valuation of forest ecosystem services : methodology and monetary estimates
Chiabai, Aline; Travisi, C. M.; Ding, H.; Markandya, A.; … - 2009
By using ad hoc value transfer protocols, this paper offers a methodological contribution and provides accurate per hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified following the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment taxonomy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809695
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The circular city and the building sector
Franz, Gianfranco - 2020
The essay deals with the issue of urban circularity understood as a subset of the Circular Economy paradigm, highlighting potential and limits of an emerging new model spreading on a global scale. The critical reasoning starts from a very recent production of institutional documents and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389896
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Climate and the destination choice of German tourists
Hamilton, Jacqueline M. - 2004
The attractiveness of a tourist destination is partly dependent on its environmental and climatic resource base. Climate change can be expected to have an effect on this attractiveness and will subsequently alter patterns of demand. An application of the pooled travel cost model using survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599998
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Weather and income : lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - 2015
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517704
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Temperature and growth : a panel analysis of the United States
Colacito, Riccardo; Hoffmann, Bridget; Phan, Toan - 2016
This paper documents that seasonal temperatures have significant and systematic effects on the U.S. economy, both at the aggregate level and across a wide crosssection of economic sectors. This effect is particularly strong for the summer: an increase of 1°F in the average summer temperature is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484896
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Macroeconomic spillovers of weather shocks across U.S. states
Bacchiocchi, Emanuele; Bastianin, Andrea; Moramarco, … - 2024 - This version: April 12, 2024
We estimate the short-run effects of severe weather shocks on local economic activity and assess cross-border spillovers operating through economic linkages between U.S. states. We measure weather shocks using a detailed county-level database on emergency declarations triggered by natural...
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Adapting to climate change : long-term effects of drought on local labor markets
Bastos, Paulo; Busso, Matias; Miller, Sebastián - 2013
sector; leads to job losses and pay cuts in the local manufacturing and services sectors; and induces out-migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246482
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Migration drivers in carbonintensive regions in the EU
Jestl, Stefan; Römisch, Roman - 2023
The paper analyses drivers of migration in carbon-intensive and non-carbon-intensive regions in the EU. Using a mix of … Eastern Europe are not only challenged by a potential decline in carbon-intensive employment but also by outward migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429186