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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
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A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks
Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...
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National Forest Land Exchanges and the Growth of Vail and Other Gateway Communities
Ragsdale, John W. - 2008
In December of 1962, Vail opened as a ski area. The lodges, houses, condominiums, shops, and restaurants at its base became the nucleus of the emergent town of Vail and the prototype of the modern recreational gateway community. The term quot;gateway communityquot; did not originate in Vail. It...
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Адекватность закрытой модели для российской экономики в задаче сравнительного анализа Энергетической стратегии России...
Bazhanov, Andrei; Belyaev, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We compare the short- and the long-run consequences of Russia's Energy Strategy to 2020 and of the project of the Strategy to 2030 with a hypothetical scenario of the weak-sustainable oil extraction, starting from 2008 and providing asymptotically constant per capita consumption in the long run....
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The Economic Value of Industrial Minerals and Rocks for Developing Countries: A Discussion of Key Issues
Wilson, Tetevi Bahun; Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper provides a few general comments on the nature and economic value of industrial minerals and rocks and the need for an increased exploitation and use of these materials in developing countries. These materials are of great economic value as main raw materials for the construction,...
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Chemical Profiles of Wood Components of Poplar Clones for Their Energy Utilization
Kačík, František; Ďurkovič, Jaroslav; Kačíková, … - In: Energies 5 (2012) 12, pp. 5243-5256
, holocellulose, and extractives, syringyl to guaiacyl (S/G) ratio in lignin, and also calculated higher heating values (HHV) among … examined sites was determined in ‘I-214’ and ‘Baka 5’ clones, whereas the highest content of extractives was found in …’ clones. The chemical profiles of main wood components, extractives, and the S/G ratio in lignin were also influenced by both …
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Deforestation Impact on the Household Sustainable Local Development: Nicaragua case, 1998-2005.
Gonzalez, Zuniga; Alberto, Carlos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
he paper analyzes the deforestation problem and its Sustainable Local Development (SLD) impact, during 1998-2005 periods. A stochastic frontier production function is defined for panel data of farm-specific variables. The inefficiency effects are assumed to be independently distributed as...
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Economía y conflicto en el Cono Sur del Departamento de Bolívar
HOZ, JOAQUÍN VILORIA DE LA - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - ECONOMÍA REGIONAL - 2009
El objetivo de la presente investigación es estudiar las actividades económicas del sur deldepartamento de Bolívar y analizar sus implicaciones con el medio ambiente y el conflictoarmado. Para efectos prácticos, el Cono Sur" de Bolívar se ha delimitado a los 16municipios que se ubican en el...
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Factor intensity and order of resource extraction
Freni, Giuseppe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper characterizes the optimal time paths of extraction of several nonrenewable resource deposits with different costs of extraction when the extracted resource can be converted into productive capital and the extraction process, as well as the production of the substitute, requires two...
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The Assignment of Property Rights on the Western Frontier: Lessons for Contemporary Environmental and Resource Policy
Libecap, Gary D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
In addressing environmental and natural resource problems, there is a move away from primary reliance upon centralized regulation toward assignment of property rights to mitigate the losses of open-access. I examine the assignment of private property rights during the 19th and early 20th...
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