Costa Rica pioneered the use of the payments for environmental services (PES) approach in developing countries by establishing a formal, country-wide program of payments, the PSA program. The PSA program has worked hard to develop mechanisms to charge the users of environmental services for the...

Biodiversity, including wildlife, is globally decreasing at alarming rates. This development has evoked calls for innovative conservation policies. In the present paper we explore the novel conservation performance payment approach which for wildlife-livestock conflicts, so far, has only been...

A cikk újszerű módon csoportosítja a vállalat szennyezéselhárítási költségeit, s bemutatja, hogy az elhárítás során miként maximalizálhatja egy vállalat a profitját, valamint hogy a környezetvédelmi hatóságnak milyen mértékű emissziócsökkentés megvalósítására...

Kétségtelen, hogy a következő évszázad legnagyobb kihívását az emberiség számára a környezeti problémák jelentik. A társadalmi értékrend változik, bizonytalan viszont, hogy a most kialakuló piacgazdaságok vállalatvezetői Kenneth Boulding szavaival élve cowboyok leszneke,...

This paper studies whether pro-environmental consumption choices are consistent with utility maximization and what role the consumption behavior of reference persons and one’s own past behavior play in this context. By combining data on individuals’ pro-environmental consumption from a...

We consider a renewable resource being exploited in common by firms that compete both in the output market and in the exploitation of the resource. We show that the introduction of the slightest cost differentiation among the firms can have a drastic effect on the nature of the equilibria that...

Biofuels are increasingly regarded as energy sources with the potential to solve diverse problems related to serious concerns, including climate change, environmental degradation, energy supply, and energy security. Here we examine biofuels, primarily biofuels used for transportation (e.g.,...

Half of the world’s population—3 billion people—lives below the poverty line, and Asia has the largest share. In pursuit of sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation, there is great potential among low-income households for green consumption, production, innovation, and...

With the methodology proposed by the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the model pressure-state-response (PSR), and make an interpretation about social, economical and environmental in a relatively simple interpretation. The PSR framework is based in...

This report establishes the methodological foundations for the design of a global synthetic index of sustainable development which fulfils three conditions: it adapts to the principles of Pressure-State-Response,it adopts the mandates established in Local Agenda 21 and adapts to the four...