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Measuring the trade-off between economic growth and a clean environment
Butter, F.; Verbruggen, H. - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 4 (1994) 2, pp. 187-208
This article surveys various aspects of the measurement of environmental quality from the view point of national accounting and welfare economics. It focuses on the question whether GNP or NNP should be corrected for environmental change (‘green’ or ‘eco’-GNP) or whether physical...
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Are there environmental limits to cost benefit analysis?
Hanley, Nick - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 2 (1992) 1, pp. 33-59
This paper considers the problem areas found in applying cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to projects involving environmental costs or benefits. This is particularly relevant given recent moves by the UK government to include environmental valuations in CBA exercises, and in other related appraisal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005684383
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Environmental impact of panela food-processing industry: sustainable agriculture and local agri-food production systems
Requier-Desjardins, Denis; Borray, Gonzalo Rodriguez - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 7 (2004) 3, pp. 237-256
Environmental valuation "multi-stakeholder" processes, as advocated by ecological economics, often have a strong local character. Critical Natural Capital cannot be defined without referring to a given geographical scale, very often local in terms of the definition of the environmental resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005553129
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Environmental impact of panela food-processing industry: sustainable agriculture and local agri-food production systems
Requier-Desjardins, Denis; Borray, Gonzalo Rodriguez - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 7 (2004) 3, pp. 237-256
Environmental valuation "multi-stakeholder" processes, as advocated by ecological economics, often have a strong local character. Critical Natural Capital cannot be defined without referring to a given geographical scale, very often local in terms of the definition of the environmental resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563665
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The economic costs of desertification: a first survey of some cases in Africa
Requier-Desjardins, Melanie - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 9 (2006) 2, pp. 199-209
This paper presents six studies made on the economic costs of desertification and land degradation in 11 African countries. It presents the main methods used for these macro valuations and their limits. It gives the results obtained and discuss on the concrete implications, for example, in terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563694
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The economic costs of desertification: a first survey of some cases in Africa
Requier-Desjardins, Melanie - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 9 (2006) 2, pp. 199-209
This paper presents six studies made on the economic costs of desertification and land degradation in 11 African countries. It presents the main methods used for these macro valuations and their limits. It gives the results obtained and discuss on the concrete implications, for example, in terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754302
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THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLEGES IN NIGERIA
OGBA, SYLVESTER ADEJO; OKPANACHI, ELIJAH OJOCHONU - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015
government of Nigeria towards sustainable development after the Koko incidence of 1999 has been great, but her achievement … assessment of the challenges of sustainable development in Nigeria; the author warns that humans are transforming the planet in … new sustainable developmental goals for Nigeria and other developing nations. The paper employs the philosophical tools of …
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The SPDC and sustainable development in the Niger Delta
Ibaba, Ibaba Samuel - In: International Journal of Development Issues 7 (2008) July, pp. 41-55
region. Although the SPDC has created wealth for Nigeria, the wealth does not benefit the Niger Delta people due to the …
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Evaluation of the economics (cost and benefits) of National Youth Service Corps for sustainable development in Nigeria
Raimi, L.; Alao, O. - In: Humanomics: The International Journal of Systems and Ethics 27 (2011) November, pp. 270-281
Corps (NYSC) set up some years back by the Federal Government of Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – The paper combined … Nigeria after the Nigerian civil war. However, on the strength of the survey, the authors found that the scheme has failed in … many respects in accelerating the socio-economic development of Nigeria, when the relevance of the scheme is measured by …
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Motivations of legitimacy theory for CSR reporting in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria: a theoretical framework
Ogiri, Itotenaan Henry; Samy, Martin; Bampton, Roberta - In: African Journal of Economic and Sustainable Development 1 (2012) 3, pp. 265-283
framework for the development of a CSR model for the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. …
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