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An interregional hedonic analysis of noxious facility impacts on local wages and property values
Clark, D.E.; Nieves, L.A. - 2008
Claims of property value loss are commonly raised by homeowners when noxious facilities are sited or when new information about the hazards of existing facilities is made public. While the capitalization of externalities into land values is consistent with economic theory, empirical measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436419
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Individual-based modeling of fish: Linking to physical models and water quality.
Rose, K.A. - 2009
The individual-based modeling approach for the simulating fish population and community dynamics is gaining popularity. Individual-based modeling has been used in many other fields, such as forest succession and astronomy. The popularity of the individual-based approach is partly a result of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436396
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An interregional hedonic analysis of noxious facility impacts on local wages and property values
Clark, D.E.; Nieves, L.A. - 2008
Claims of property value loss are commonly raised by homeowners when noxious facilities are sited or when new information about the hazards of existing facilities is made public. While the capitalization of externalities into land values is consistent with economic theory, empirical measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436936
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Examining the Effects of Ecological and Political Boundaries on the Potential for Water Quality Trading: Lessons from a Southeastern Trading Framework
Keiser, David A.; Mullen, Jeffrey D.; Bergstrom, John C.; … - 2009
Water quality trading (trading) as a means to improve water quality has become an increasingly popular instrument considered by environmental policy makers. Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lists more than forty current trading programs in the U.S., only a few active markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444713
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Appraisal and evaluation of water supply and sanitation projects: Ghana as a case study
Akosa, George - 1990
Existing appraisal and evaluation methodologies provide for aseparate assessment of technical, financial, economic, institutional,social and environmental aspects of projects without a unifying theoryto combine these aspects into a single measure of project performance.Data Envelopment Analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461256
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Uniform and Non-Uniform Second-Best Input Taxes.
Claassen, Roger; Horan, Richard D. - 2001
We investigate second-best, input-based taxes foragricultural nonpoint pollution control when marketprices are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429493
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Point-Nonpoint Trading - Can It Work.
Ribaudo, Marc O.; Gottlieb, Jessica - 2011
guidance to the States on developing point-nonpoint trading programs, and United States Department of Agriculture is …
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Uncertainty in TMDL Models.
Shirmohammadi, A.; Chaubey, I.; Harmel, R.D.; Bosch, D.D.; … - 2006
pollution in the environment and assessing the effectiveness of the TMDL process on improving the quality of impaired water …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429563
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IMPACTOS DA ESTRUTURA EMPRESARIAL, AGRICULTURA E PECUÁRIA SOBRE O PIB PER CAPITA: UMA ABORDAGEM ESPACIAL NO ESTADO DO ACRE
Silveira, Breno Carrillo; Silva, Rubicleis Gomes Da; … - 2008
per capita is strongly impacted by the livestock and agriculture practiced in its neighbours. In relation to the amount of ….241.847.000,00, with per capita GDP equal to $ 5.143,00. According to the IBGE, the figures added to the GDP in agriculture, industry and … analysis of the impact caused by the presence of business units, the livestock and agricultural production on the GDP per …
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Livestock in China: Commodity specific total factor productivity decomposition using new panel data
Rae, Allan N.; Ma, Hengyun; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - 2005
especially in the context of developing countries such as China where livestock is becoming more important in the domestic … agricultural economy. We estimate total factor productivity (TFP) for four major livestock products in China employing the … technical innovation in China's livestock sector, technical efficiency improvement has been relatively slow. …
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