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Are we measuring natural resource wealth correctly? A reconceptualization of natural resource value in the era of climate change
Lebdioui, Amir - 2021
Underlying the management of revenues from natural resource extraction is a set of assumptions about how abundant and how valuable these resources are. Nevertheless, existing approaches to measuring the value of extractive resources are seriously flawed. This paper proposes two avenues for...
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Internalizing Global Externalities from Biodiversity: Protected Areas and Multilateral Mechanisms of Transfer
Deke, Oliver - 2004
Biodiversity can sometimes only be preserved if natural habitats are excluded from human uses. Such protection measures generate positive externalities at the global scale. This holds especially for protection in developing countries that host great parts of global biodiversity. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260504
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Interpreting sustainability in economic terms: Dynamic efficiency plus intergenerational equity
Stavins, Robert N.; Wagner, Alexander F.; Wagner, Gernot - 2002
concept of “sustainability.” We relate such a definition of sustainability to well known concepts from neoclassical economics …-temporal realm, we find that dynamic efficiency is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a notion of sustainability that has … normative standing as a goal for public policy. We define sustainability as dynamic efficiency plus intergenerational equity …
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Green national accounting: Synthesising and extending the welfare based and sustainability-standard based approaches
Markandya, Anil; Mason, Pamela; Tamborra, Marialuisa - 2000
compatible with achieving environmental sustainability. Both approaches deliver policy-relevant information and a comparison of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608657
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Towards a typology of "environmentally-adjusted" national sustainability indicators: Key concepts and policy application
O'Connor, Martin - 2000
This paper first describes two types of adjustments to National Accounting Systems, which take the environment into account: the first type centres on accounting conventions, through a change in the system boundary, in order to include specified categories of environmental assets (called...
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Review of concepts for the evaluation of sustainable agriculture in Germany and comparison of measurement schemes for farm sustainability
Ehrmann, Markus; Kleinhanß, Werner - 2008
Within the EU research project SVAPPAS, a method of sustainability measurement based on principles of financial markets …, will be tested wrt sustainability issues in agriculture, and further developed. This analysis is oriented to farm level … dimensions and issues of sustainability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301078
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Determining the Environmental Effects of Indirect Subsidies
van Beers, Cees; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M.; de Moor, … - 2004
Up to now a clear theoretical and methodological framework for economic-environmental analysis of environmentally damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at achieving a certain (often non-environmental) goal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325315
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From economic general equilibrium to ecological system services for nature conservation and management: a methodological analysis and an empirical study based on 30 Italian industr...
Zagonari, Fabio - 2015
In this paper, I develop an operational methodology to consistently compare alternative sustainability paradigms (weak … sustainability [WS], strong sustainability [SS], a-growth [AG], and de-growth [DG]) and different assessment approaches (life … (e.g., fishing and non-energy mining for any sustainability paradigm), whereas sustainability paradigms are compared in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011651914
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Twenty key questions in environmental and resource economics
Bretschger, Lucas; Pittel, Karen - 2019
Economic and ecological systems are closely interlinked at a global and a regional level, offering a broad variety of challenging research topics in environmental and resource economics. The successful identification of key questions for current and future research supports development of novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254798
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Integrating the value of natural capital in evidence-based policy making
Banerjee, Onil; Vargas, Renato; Cicowiez, Martín - 2020
gain, can have adverse consequences for economic, social, and environmental sustainability in the long run. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604826