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Protected landscape areas and regional development (the case of the Czech Republic)

Tesitel, J.; Kusova, D.; Matejka, K.; Bartos, M. - In: Rural Areas and Development 3

The focal point of this article is to discuss whether or not, or to which extent, nature protection can be considered a factor differentiating the level or speed of regional socio-economic development. We decided to use empirical evidence in order to test the historical belief that nature...

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AUCTIONING OUTCOME-BASED CONSERVATION CONTRACTS

Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe; Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011

This paper explores two ideas to enhance the performance of agri-environmental contracting schemes: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and putting the contracts up for tender. This paper investigates whether there are any gains to be had by combining the benefits of both...

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Should we combine incentive payments and tendering for efficiently purchasing conservation services from landholders?

Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2010

Policy makers aiming to get private landholders to provide non-marketed environmental services need to provide efficient economic incentives. Two ideas have been explored to achieve this: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and putting the contracts up for tender. This paper...

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Exploring Linkages Among Agriculture, Trade, and the Environment: Issues for the Next Century

Krissoff, Barry; Ballenger, Nicole; Dunmore, John C.; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1996

Many trade and environment issues will confront agriculture over the next several years. This report provides an economic framework to better understand these issues and discusses prior empirical inquiries and findings. Four primary issues are addressed: (1) how will environmental policies...

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Cost-effectiveness of alternative green payment policies for conservation technology adoption with heterogeneous land quality

Khanna, Madhu; Isik, Murat; Zilberman, David - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 27 (2002) 2

This paper quantitatively analyses the cost-effectiveness of alternative green payment policies designed to achieve a targeted level of pollution control by heterogeneous micro units. These green payment policies include cost-share subsidies that share the fixed costs of adoption of a...

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La agricultura: situación actual y perspectivas de un sector tradicional en el marco de las políticas de desarrollo rural

HERNÁNDEZ, MARÍA HERNÁNDEZ; MANTERO, ENRIQUE A. MOLTÓ - In: Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros (2001) 191

En la sociedad europea de finales del siglo XX, la agricultura no presenta la relevancia económica que tuvo en otras épocas. Estos paisajes, resultado de la interacción hombre-medio, en la actualidad han adquirido un nuevo valor vinculado a la función recreativa. Su mantenimiento, sin...

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Republica Moldova şi integrarea Europeană : elemente de strategie

Barbăroşie, Arcadie (contributor) - 2003

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Republica Moldova şi integrarea Europeană : cooperarea în pactul de stabilitate

Barbăroşi, Arcadie (contributor); … - 2003

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China’s growing food imports from the EU

Huan-Niemi, Ellen; Niemi, Jyrki S. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

agricultural trade between China and the EU by using annual trade data from 1986 to 2005. Econometric models were constructed for … six agricultural products exported from the EU to China – frozen pigmeat, frozen fish, whey, barley, beer, and wine. The … suppliers. The estimations indicated that relative price changes affect significantly China’s import demand from the EU …

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Mitigating GHG emissions from EU agriculture– what difference does the policy make?

Fellmann, Thomas; Dominguez, Ignacio Perez; Witzke, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

emission standard, tradable emission permits and a livestock emission tax) to reduce agricultural GHG emissions in the EU. The … policy scenarios are designed to achieve a 20% reduction of EU agricultural GHG emissions in 2020 compared to 2004 …. Projection results show that emission reduction effects per EU Member State in each scenario are quite different from the EU …

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