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Using data envelopment analysis to evaluate environmentally conscious tourism management
Bosetti, Valentina; Cassinelli, Mariaester; Lanza, … - 2004
This paper discusses a methodology to assess the performances of tourism management of local governments when economic and environmental aspects are considered as equally relevant. In particular, the focus is on the comparison and efficiency assessment of Italian municipalities located on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601143
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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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Constructing the FEEM sustainability index : a Choquet-integral application
Cruciani, Caterina; Giove, Silvio; Pinar, Mehmet; … - 2013 - This draft: January, 2013
This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability … index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components … the FEEM Sustainability Index (FEEM SI), a composite index including 19 different indicators grouped in the three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009714399
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Constructing the FEEM sustainability index : a Choquet-integral application
Cruciani, Caterina; Giove, Silvio; Pinar, Mehmet; … - 2012 - This draft: May, 2012
This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability … index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components … the FEEM Sustainability Index (FEEM SI), a composite index including 19 different indicators grouped in the three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009565838
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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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Economic evaluation of climate change impacts and adaptation in Italy
Gambarelli, Gretel; Goria, Alessandra - 2004
The paper deals with the social and economic dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation in Italy. The ultimate aim of the paper is to provide policy makers and experts with a conceptual framework, as well as methodological and operational tools for dealing with climate change impacts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606521
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Willingness to pay for agricultural environmental safety : evidence from a survey of Milan, Italy, residents
Travisi, Chiara M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2004
The widespread use of pesticides in agriculture provides a particularly complex pattern of multidimensional negative side-effects, ranging from food safety related effects to the deterioration of farmland ecosystems. The assessment of the economic implications of such negative processes is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606632
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Comparing individual-specific benefit estimates for public goods : finite versus continuous mixing in logit models
Scarpa, Riccardo; Willis, Kenneth G.; Acutt, Melinda - 2004
Multi-attribute stated preference data, derived through choice experiments, is used to investigate the consequence of a finite number of preference groups in a sample of Yorkshire Water residential customers on the conditional distributions of willingness to pay in the sample. The research...
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Firms' responses to shocks by price, wage and employment in Macedonia
Ramadani, Gani - 2017
This paper analyses the role of the intensity of output market competition, firm's technology and of the incidence of collective wage-bargaining on firm's adjustment strategies to adverse shocks using firm-level data for Macedonia. We find that international character of product market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671821
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Behavioral Econometrics for Psychologists
Andersen, Steffen; Harrison, Glenn W.; Lau, Morten Igel; … - 2009
We make the case that psychologists should make wider use of econometric methods for the estimation of structural models. These methods involve the development of maximum likelihood estimates of models, where the likelihood function is tailored to the structural model. In recent years these...
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