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Explaining the Variation in the Value of Building Energy Efficiency Certificates: A Quantitative Meta-Analysis
Ankamah-Yeboah, Isaac; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
The built environment has been identified as one of the cost effective platforms for reducing energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. With policies and the know-how in existence, the real estate sector has already adopted measures such as building codes and energy efficiency labels to drive...
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Valuation of EU Agricultural Landscape
Ciaian, Pavel; Paloma, Sergio Gomez y - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2011
The present paper provides a meta-analysis of agricultural landscape valuation studies and through the estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492749
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Economic Valuation of Forest Ecosystem Services: Methodology and Monetary Estimates
Chiabai, Aline; Travisi, C. M.; Ding, H.; Markandya, A.; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
By using ad hoc value transfer protocols, this paper offers a methodological contribution and provides accurate per hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified following the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment taxonomy...
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The Internalization of Externalities in The Production of Electricity: Willingness to Pay for the Attributes of a Policy for Renewable Energy
Longo, Alberto; Markandya, Anil; Petrucci, Marta - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This paper investigates the willingness to pay of a sample of residents of Bath, England, for a hypothetical program that promotes the production of renewable energy. Using choice experiments, we assess the preferences of respondents for a policy for the promotion of renewable energy that (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230864
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The Empirics of Wetland Valuation: A Comprehensive Summary and a Meta-Analysis of the Literature
Brander, Luke; Florax, Raymond; Vermaat, Jan - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 33 (2006) 2, pp. 223-250
decisions relating to their use and conservation. There is now a substantial literature on wetland valuation, including two meta …-analyses that examine subsets of the available wetland valuation literature. We collected over 190 wetland valuation studies …, providing 215 value observations, in order to present a more comprehensive meta-analysis of the valuation literature that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005722069
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Meta-analysis of nature conservation values in Asia & Oceania: Data heterogeneity and benefit transfer issues
Tuan, Tran Hu; Lindhjem, Henrik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
generally) and valuation methods, we show that the degree of regularity and conformity with theory and empirical expectations is … higher for the more homogenous dataset of contingent valuation of endangered species. For example, we find that willingness … increases with income. Increasing the degree of heterogeneity in the valuation data, however, preserves much of the regularity …
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FLOODING RISK AND HOUSING VALUES: AN ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
Daniel, Vanessa E.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Rietveld, Piet - Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University - 2007
Climate change, the ‘boom and bust’ cycles of rivers, and altered water resource management practice have caused significant changes in the spatial distribution of the risk of flooding. Hedonic pricing studies, predominantly for the US, have assessed the spatial incidence of risk and the...
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A Meta-Analysis of Contingent Valuation Studies in Coastal and Near-Shore Marine Ecosystems
Liu, Shuang; Stern, David I - Ecosystems Sciences Division, Commonwealth Scientific … - 2008
contingent valuation papers with 120 observations to conduct the first meta-analysis of the ecosystem service values provided by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797530
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A Meta-Analysis of Contingent Valuation Studies in Coastal and Near-Shore Marine Ecosystems
Liu, Shuang; Stern, David I. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
contingent valuation papers with 120 observations to conduct the first meta-analysis of the ecosystem service values provided by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620197
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Water Quality Index Aggregation and Cost Benefit Analysis
Walsh, Patrick J.; Wheeler, William - National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), … - 2012
The water quality index (WQI) has emerged as a central way to convey water quality information to policy makers and the general public and is regularly used in US EPA regulatory impact analysis. It is a compound indicator that aggregates information from several water quality parameters. Several...
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