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Impact of social safeguarding on private land ownership and individual well-being: The case of Sri Lanka

Jayasooriya, S. P. - 2019

Infrastructure development with properly planned safeguard measures is essential from the sustainable development … the paper is to provide pragmatic evidence on sustainable infrastructure development strategies in terms of social … sustainability of the affected persons' livelihood and living standards. Qualitatively, the lessons learned through the impact …

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Combining rights and welfarism: A new approach to intertemporal evaluation of social alternatives

Long, Ngo Van; Martinet, Vincent - 2012

We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds (floors or ceilings on various quantitative...

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European Policies towards Palm Oil - Sorting Out some Facts

Pehnelt, Gernot; Vietze, Christoph - 2009

This paper analyses the role of palm oil and its sustainability from different perspectives. We consider the role of …

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Sharing the costs of complex water projects: Application to the West Delta water conservation and irrigation rehabilitation project, Egypt

Moretti, Stefano; Patrone, Fioravante; Dinar, Ariel; … - In: Games 7 (2016) 3, pp. 1-23

sustainability of the project. Projects that are heterogeneous both in terms of the landscape of the area under development or the …

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Limits to substitution between ecosystem services and manufactured goods and implications for social discounting

Drupp, Moritz A. - 2016

This paper examines implications of limits to substitution for estimating substitutability between ecosystem services and manufactured goods and for social discounting. Based on a model that accounts for a subsistence requirement in the consumption of ecosystem services, we provide empirical...

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Private Capital, Public Goods: Forest Plantations' Investment in Local Infrastructure and Social Services in Rural Tanzania

Degnet, Mohammed B.; van der Werf, Edwin; Ingram, Verina; … - 2017

by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure … regression model with observations of the size and quality of infrastructure and social services in the villages and with … infrastructure and social services in adjacent villages. The results suggest that large-scale private forest plantations can …

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Towards sustainable, productive and profitable agriculture: Case of rice and sugarcane

Gulati, Ashok; Mohan, Gayathri - 2018

Indian agriculture is estimated to be consuming about 78 percent of total fresh water resources available in the country. Yet, more than half of the gross cropped area is still dependent on rains. Extremely skewed allocation of scarce irrigation water amongst crops and inefficient use of the...

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The organic farming in Poland compared to selected countries of the European Union versus sustainable development

Adamska, Hanna; Minta, Stanisław - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 18 (2019) 4, pp. 1201-1218

Organic farming is based on care for the proper functioning of ecosystems, organisms with the simultaneous production of wholesome food raw materials. It fits into the concept of sustainable development by implementing the aspects: economic, social and environmental. Theoretical and empirical...

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Abandoned land: A barrier for sustainable development of agriculture of the Republic of Moldova

Leah, Tamara - 2016

According to the General Agricultural Census the agricultural area utilized in agriculture consist 1.941.400 ha. At the same time, abandoned agricultural area was 246.900 ha, of which 60.600 ha, or 24.5%, belonging firms and 186.300 ha, or 75.5% - individual persons. Neglected land is abandoned...

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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...

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