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Using Environmental Offsets in Wetlands Management
Duncan, Roderick; Morrison, Mark - 2008
Environmental offsets have been proposed as a technique for managing the environmental impacts of newdevelopments in regions that are not in compliance with environmental standards. By requiring developersto 'offset' any impacts by purchasing 'environmental credits', environmental quality can be...
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The adoption of market-based instruments for resource management: Three case studies
Sinner, Jim; Fenemor, Andrew; Palmer, James - 2005
Market-based instruments (MBIs) for resource management create financial incentives for people and businesses to use resources more efficiently, within a regulatory context designed to ensure that ecological, social and cultural objectives are also met. Three case studies were done to identify...
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Market-Based Environmental Policies
Stavins, Robert N. - 1998
Some eighty years ago, economists first proposed the use of corrective taxes to internalize environmental and other externalities. Fifty years later, the portfolio of potential economic-incentive instruments was expanded to include quantity-based mechanisms--tradable permits. Thus,...
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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 - 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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AUCTIONING OUTCOME-BASED CONSERVATION CONTRACTS
Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe; Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar - 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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Trust and Reciprocity in the Market-Based Provision of Public Goods. Experimental Evidence and Applications to Conservation Tenders
Vogt, Nora - 2013
Zahlungen für Ökosystemdienstleistungen (Payments for Ecosystem Services – PES) und auktionsbasierte Vergabeverfahren sind ein wichtiges und innovatives Instrument im Kampf gegen den fortwährenden Verlust von biologischer Vielfalt. Basierend auf einem Vertrag zwischen einem...
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Globalized Forest-Products: Commodification of Matsutake Mushroom in Tibetan Villages Yunnan Province, Southwest China
He, Jun - 2004
"Within the global framework of Sustainable Development, NTFPs (Non-timber Forest Products) draw a great deal of attentions from scholars. However, previous literature and research has mainly placed emphasis on how commercialization of NTFPs contributed to forest management and local livelihood...
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Enclosure Within and Without the Commons
McCann, Anthony - 2004
analysis of expansionary social dynamics that involve the accelerative commodification of everyday life. "In this paper I … more adequate analyses of expansion and commodification, and to more reflective and reflexive understandings of whatever … 'the commons' is taken to mean. A brief overview of a new theory of commodification is presented, and through this it will …
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Agricultural Commodities, Trade and Sustainable Development
Lines, Thomas - 2005
"Talks on agricultural trade liberalization at the World Trade Organization must take into account the needs of commodity-dependent developing countries, to ensure that agricultural trade and commodity production will deliver outcomes that favour both the environment and poverty reduction....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468469
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Health and wealth: Dietary supplements, network marketing and the commodification of health
Dixon, Anna R - 2003
Dietary supplements overall constitute a multibillion-dollar industry in the U.S. today. This dissertation investigates a heretofore poorly-documented aspect of the burgeoning dietary supplements industry: network marketing. Network marketing, exemplified by companies like Amway as well as a...
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