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An Accidental Oil Spill Along the Belgian Coast: Results from a CV Study
van Biervliet, Karl; Le Roy, Dirk; Nunes, Paulo A.L.D. - 2006
This paper offers an economic assessment of the loss of non-use values resulting from different oil spill scenarios along the Belgian Coast. Estimation results show that if no oil spill prevention policy action is undertaken, a significant welfare loss may result. As a matter of fact, contingent...
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On the environmental effectiveness of the EU marine strategy framework directive
Bertram, Christine; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2012
Marine and coastal ecosystems - and thus the benefits they create for humans - are subject to increasing pressures and competing usages. For this reason, the European Union (EU) adopted the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), which is to guide future maritime policy in the EU and aims at...
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Relative Price Changes of Ecosystem Services: Evidence from Germany
Heckenhahn, Jonas; Drupp, Moritz A. - 2022
Discounting future costs and benefits is a crucial yet contentious practice in the appraisal of long-term public projects with environmental consequences. The standard approach typically neglects that ecosystem services are not easily substitutable with manufactured goods and often exhibit...
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Incorporating time lags and uncertainty in cost-benefit analysis of water quality improvements – a case study of Limfjorden, Denmark
Larsen, Tobias Holmsgaard; Lundhede, Thomas; Olsen, … - 2021
Cost-benefit analyses are commonly applied to assess the net welfare effects of policies to improve surface water quality. These analyses often disregard the biophysical fact that from implementation of policy measures to resulting improvements on water quality there will typically be...
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Umsetzung der Klimaziele effizient gestalten
Pittel, Karen - In: ifo Schnelldienst 74 (2021) 07, pp. 32-36
In zwei Feldern müssen besonders schnell grundsätzliche Entscheidungen getroffen werden – der CO2-Bepreisung und dem Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien. Ohne ein starkes Leitinstrument werden die fundamentalen Signale fehlen, um die Dekarbonisierung in allen Sektoren voranzutreiben. Ohne die...
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Verkehrslärm: Beeinträchtigungen und Minderungsstrategien
Jäcker-Cüppers, Michael - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 79 (2010) 2, pp. 77-93
Verkehrslärm ist nicht nur belästigend, sondern führt auch zu gesundheitlichen Risiken und damit zu hohen externen Kosten. Seine Bekämpfung ist daher ein dringendes Gebot der Umweltschutzpolitik. Dabei sind sowohl ordnungsrechtliche Instrumente zur Begrenzung der Emissionen und Immissionen...
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Quantifying COVID-19's silver lining: Avoided deaths from air quality improvements in Bogotá
Blackman, Allen; Bonilla, Jorge A.; Villalobos, Laura - 2021
only temporary, these improvements could have longer-lasting effects on policy by making chronic air pollution more salient … econometric models to estimate the effect of Bogotás lockdown on fine particulate pollution, epidemiological models to simulate … the effect of reductions in that pollution on long-term and short-term mortality, and benefit transfer methods to estimate …
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Electricity externalities, siting, and the energy mix: A survey
Welsch, Heinz - 2016
While early literature on electricity externalities was largely concerned with fossil fuel power generation and the associated emissions, nuclear accidents (Chernobyl, Fukushima) and the large-scale deployment of renewable energy facilities have spurred a wave of research on the externalities of...
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Altruist talk may (also) be cheap: Revealed versus stated altruism as a predictor in stated preference studies
Iversen, Endre Kildal; Grimsrud, Kristine M.; Mitani, Yohei - 2021
Altruistic preferences of various forms may cause difficulties in welfare economics. In the valuation of public goods, such preferences are believed to help explain the substantial non-use values found in many stated preference (SP) valuation surveys. However, studies analysing the effect of...
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Public acceptance and willingness to pay cost-effective taxes on red meat and road traffic in Norway
Grimsrud, Kristine M.; Lindhjem, Henrik; Sem, Ingvild Vestre - 2019
charges on road traffic to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution, respectively. Implementation requires …'s acceptance of the two taxes. The survey instrument showed dynamically the reduction in emissions/pollution for each tax level …
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