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Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Food Security in the AIMS SIDS: Integrating External and Local Knowledge

Mercer, Jessica; Kurvits, Tiina; Kelman, Ilan; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 9, pp. 5566-5597

This paper critically reviews ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) approaches for food security under climate change … of coherence in AIMS SIDS approaching food security, in terms of policies and actions not reflecting the ecosystem …

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Ecosystem-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Caribbean Small Island Developing States: Integrating Local and External Knowledge

Mercer, Jessica; Kelman, Ilan; Alfthan, Björn; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 8, pp. 1908-1932

focus on ecosystems and their interaction with people is essential for climate change adaptation. Increasingly, ecosystem …

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Valuation of Ecosystem Services from Wetlands Mitigation in the United States

Adusumilli, Naveen - In: Land 4 (2015) 1, pp. 182-196

compensate for permitted wetland losses. These mitigation wetlands can provide ecosystem services similar to original wetlands if … in the Army Corps permit files represent actual wetland creation, ecosystem services value is estimated using a wetland … is used for the analysis. The results indicate that cumulative ecosystem services value per acre per year is in the range …

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Tailoring Global Data to Guide Corporate Investments in Biodiversity, Environmental Assessments and Sustainability

Oakleaf, James R.; Kennedy, Christina M.; Boucher, Timothy - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 10, pp. 4444-4460

Companies make significant investments in environmental impacts assessments, biodiversity action plans, life-cycle assessments, and environmental management systems, but guidance on where and when these tools can be best used, and how they may scale-up to inform corporation-wide planning, is...

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An Economic Analysis of Trade Measures to Protect the Global Environment

Chang, Howard F. - 2008

This paper addresses the role of trade restrictions in support of policies to protect the global environment and proposes a more liberal treatment of these environmental trade measures (ETMs) than that adopted by dispute- settlement panels of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)....

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Deprived Land-Use Intensification in Shifting Cultivation : The Population Pressure Hypothesis Revisited

Barbier, Edward B. - 2007

This article provides a theoretical framework, based on optimal control theory, to analyze farm households' land-use intensification decisions in forest-based shifting cultivation (slash-and-burn) agroecosystems. The main results from the analysis generally coincide with the Population Pressure...

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Stigmatized Asset Value : Is it Temporary or Permanent?

McCluskey, Jill J. - 2000

Stigma is a negative attribute of real estate acquired by the discovery of contamination and reflected in its value (Elliot-Jones, 1996). Using a theoretical model with external economies and adjustment costs, we show that both temporary stigma and permanent stigma are possible equilibrium...

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The Potential Problem with Dual Gas Pricing Practices at the WTO

Behn, Daniel - 2020

Dual pricing is a practice that has garnered significant attention recently as either a potentially prohibited export subsidy or an actionable de facto specific subsidy under the WTO. Dual pricing practices by natural resource-endowed countries allow for the domestic price of natural resources...

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Green Noise or Green Value? Measuring the Effects of Environmental Certification on Office Property Values

Fuerst, Franz - 2019

The environmental performance of a building is rapidly gaining importance as a metric in real estate investments. This study investigates the price effects of environmental certification on commercial real estate assets. It is argued that there are likely to be three main drivers of price...

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Energy Planning in the United States and Europe : A Portfolio-Based Approach

Lowengrub, Paul S. - 2014

Traditional energy planning in Europe and the United States focuses on finding the least-cost generating alternative. This approach worked sufficiently well in a technological era marked by relative cost certainty, low rates of technological progress, technologically homogenous generating...

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