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Energy Security Risks and Risks Mitigation: an Overview

Kowalski, George; Vilogorac, Sead - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2008

Central to the goals of competitiveness and sustainable development is the issue of energy. Is there enough? Where will it come from? What will it costs? Is its production and use environmentally sustainable? Many of these questions are now discussed under the general topic commonly referred to...

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Environmental Policy and International Competitiveness in a Globalizing World: Challenges for Low-Income Countries in the UNECE Region.

Hesse, Dieter - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2008

This paper addresses a set of conflicting national objectives, that between economic competitiveness and environmental quality. In lower-income economies, the perceived benefits of improved environmental quality may be valued less than in richer economies while the perceived opportunity costs of...

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The Bridges of Belgrade

Bärlund, Kaj - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2008

topics discussed at the recent “Environment for Europe” Ministerial Conference held in Belgrade in mid-October 2007. This … evaluates the “Environment for Europe” as a political process and generally concludes that it has been a success although he … to the substantive issues concerning the state of the environment in Europe, the conference concluded that significant …

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Environmental Policy when People's Preferences are Inconsistent, Non-Welfaristic, or simply Not Developed

Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2001

This paper discusses how a benevolent policy maker should act based on some, possibly non-welfaristic,ethical principle in cases where people's preferences are not perfectly informed,consistent and fully developed with regard to all goods, including all kinds of environmental goods, as is...

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Utilizzo e diffusione della valutazione economica dei beni

Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

ruolo in Europa. La sua rilevanza viene pertanto letta attraverso la verifica della diffusione presso la Direzione Ambiente … offerti alcuni spunti di riflessione relativi al processo di valutazione e alle sue fortune in Europa. …

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Environmental valuation in European Union policy-making

Grasso, Marco; Pareglio, Stefano - EconWPA - 2002

restricted survey on research in Europe. Our analysis makes clear that the diffusion of environmental valuation in Europe is …

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On the Environmental Effectiveness of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Bertram, Christine; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 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...

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A human well-being approach for assessing the value of natural land areas

Kopmann, Angela; Rehdanz, Katrin - In: Ecological Economics 93 (2013) C, pp. 20-33

To decide on the policy measures to be implemented, policymakers need comprehensive information on the costs and benefits of land conversion for society. Accordingly, the EU Biodiversity Strategy requires the member countries to assess their ecosystems and the economic value of their ecosystem...

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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...

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