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Context-Dependent Biodiversity Conservation Management Regimes
Gjertsen, Heidi; Behr, Diji Chandrasekharan - 2000
ensure biodiversity conservation and an equitable distribution of benefits and costs. There has been little theory or …"The central challenge of tropical biodiversity conservation involves reconciling private and social incentives to … conserving biodiversity is context-specific. "This paper addresses the question of where to vest different forms of authority to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468344
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The Three Faces of Trade Liberalization: Unilateral, Preferential, and Multilateral
KARACAOVALI, BAYBARS - 2006
There is a growing number of studies that investigate the effect of trade liberalization on productivity and nearly all assume that trade policy is independently determined of productivity, hence it is exogenous. I show that this assumption is generally invalid both theoretically and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450823
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How can energy-efficient structures compete in an inefficient energy market
Noll, S. - 2009
The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436739
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The role of marketing in matching industry needs with technologies developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Prosser, G.A. - 2008
National laboratories have limited resources to devote to the transfer of government-funded technologies to the commercial sector. Companies, too, face resource constraints in their attempt to identify and assimilate innovations which fit with their strategic objectives. For these reasons,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437396
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Parks, buffer zones, and costly enforcement
Robinson, Elizabeth J. Z.; Albers, Heidi J. - 2006
The reality of protected area management is that enforcing forest and parkboundaries is costly and so most likely incomplete, due in part to the pressures exerted on the boundaries by local people who often have traditionally relied on the park resources. Buffer zones are increasingly being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441504
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Influencia social y sostenibilidad en el uso de recursos renovables
Almudi, Isabel; Choliz, Julio Sanchez - 2006
En este trabajo presentamos un modelo en el que las actividades extractivas referidas a un recurso natural renovable, si son abusivas, generan algún tipo de reacción social que modifica las preferencias sociales. Esta modificación es tenida en cuenta por el planificador a la hora de decidir...
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Irreversible Investments Revisited
Sandal, Leif K.; Steinshamn, Stein I.; Hoff, Ayoe - 2007
A multi-dimensional, non-linear dynamic model in continuous time is presented for the purpose of finding the optimal combination of exploitation and capital investment in optimal renewable resource management. Non-malleability of capital is incorporated in the model through an asymmetric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445821
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Dynamics of Spatial Exploitation: A Metapopulation Approach
Sanchirico, James N.; Wilen, James E. - 2000
We present a bioeconomic model of a harvesting industry operating over a heterogeneous environment comprised of discrete biological populations interconnected by dispersal processes. The model generalizes the H. S. Gordon [1954]/V. Smith [1968] model of open-access rent dissipation by accounting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446694
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On Sustainable Use of Renewable Resources in Protected Areas as an Instrument of Biodiversity Conservation : A Bioeconomic Analysis
Tai, Hsing-Sheng - 2002
adequate strategy for biodiversity conservation. To do this, the dynamic interaction between the use of wild species …, investment rate) is developed on the basis of the traditional bioeconomic model and optimal control theory. The model identifies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476254
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Finansų sektoriaus poveikio elektros energijos gamybai iš atsinaujinančių energijos išteklių įvertinimas: Baltijos ir Šiaurės šalių atvejai
Martusevičiūtė, Jolita - 2010
Šio darbo tikslas – atlikus mokslinės literatūros analizę ir ja remiantis sudarius tyrimo modelį, įvertinti finansų sektoriaus poveikį elektros energijos gamybai iš atsinaujinančių išteklių Baltijos ir Šiaurės šalių atveju. Pirmoje darbo dalyje apibrėţiama atsinaujinančių...
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