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Wildlife conservation and management in Kenya : towards a co-management approach
Mburu, John - 2004
The co-management approach of managing natural resources has increasingly become popular among conservationists and development practitioners since it overcomes the shortcomings of both the centralised management and community-based approaches that hinder harmonization of conflicting interests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600448
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Biodiversity conservation on private lands : information problems and regulatory choices
Goeschl, Timo; Lin, Tun - 2004
This survey paper examines various information insufficiencies in biodiversity conservation and their impact of … making efficient biodiversity conservation decisions: 1) biological uncertainty 2) natural uncertainty 3) individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602463
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Farm animal biodiversity conservation activities in Europe under the framework of Agenda 2000
Signorello, Giovanni; Pappalardo, Gioacchino - 2002
In this paper we examine the content of farm animal biodiversity conservation measurescurrently under implementation in … sheep breeds. As concerns the financial aspects of livestock biodiversity measures, we note that the payments offered to … suggest the need for a revision of the current EU supporting measures related to the conservation of livestock biodiversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596951
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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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Appraising diversity with an ordinal notion of similarity : an axiomatic approach
Bervoets, Sebastian; Gravel, Nicholas - 2004
This paper provides an axiomatic characterization of two rules for comparing alternative sets of objects on the basis of the diversity that they offer. The framework considered assumes a finite universe of objects and an a priori given ordinal quadernary relation that compares alternative pairs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600341
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Reducing acidification : the benefits of increased nature quality : investigating the possibilities of the contingent valuation method
Ruijgrok, E. C. M. - 2004
In order to complete cost benefit analyses of acidification policies, an attempt was made to monetarize the benefits of increased nature quality. So far, several benefits of acidification abatement, such as reduced health risks, had been determined, but the benefits of increased nature quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602799
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Policies for a more dematerialized EU economy. Theoretical underpinnings, political context and expected feasibility
Bigano, Andrea; ´Sniegocki, Aleksander; Zotti, Jacopo - 2016
Economic activities affect the environment through a multiplicity of channels. Besides generating GHG emissions that induce climatic changes, every modern economy is connected to the environment throughout a continuous flow of materials. To generate economic wealth, a modern economy demands...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482452
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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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Natural resources dynamics : another look
Di Vita, Giuseppe - 2004
In this paper we study the problem of exhaustible resources and renewable resources in a theoretical endogenous growth framework, under various assumptions. In particular, we consider the hypotheses that those two inputs are or are not technologically perfect substitutes of each other. Moreover,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606767
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The influence of climate change considerations on energy policy : the case of Russia
Markandya, Anil; Golub, Alexander; Strukova, Elena Borisovna - 2003
To those working on climate change it is obvious that energy policy should be influenced by climate change considerations. The question that this paper seeks to answer is, to what extent do they influence policy and what contribution can a careful analysis of the costs and benefits of climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592767