Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar as implicações sociais, econômicas e ambientais resultantes da criação do Parque Nacional da Serra da Bodoquena para a comunidade de assentados do Projeto de Assentamento Canaã, verificando-se empiricamente a ação da presença de uma unidade de...

O artigo aborda a importância do planejamento dos equipamentos turísticos e outras instalações para propriedades que desenvolvem o turismo no espaço rural de forma a minimizar os impactos ambientais. O turismo apresenta potencialidades para o desenvolvimento rural sustentável e o...

Este artigo discute como as mudanças na estrutura produtiva das áreas litorâneas do Estado de Sergipe influenciam o modo de vida das populações tradicionais, cujas bases econômicas estão centradas na agricultura de subsistência, pesca artesanal, artesanato e extrativismo de produtos...

A crucial factor in the success of any water quality trading market is its ability to cost-effectivelyreallocate nutrient allowances from initial holders to those users who find them most valuable;the market's trading efficiency. We explore causes of and solutions to trading inefficiency...

In most urban cities across Australia, water restrictions remain the dominant policymechanism to restrict urban water consumption. The extensive adoption of waterrestrictions over several years means that Australian urban water prices have consistently not reflected the opportunity cost of water...

The greenhouse sector has reinvented itself as a technologically advanced and relatively environmentally friendly industry over the past 15 years. However it remains a high energy user. Two recent surveys have highlighted the potential impact on greenhouse grower costs of the proposed emissions...

The understanding of how allocation decisions can maximise the economic returns to the community from water for irrigation has received little attention, but is a significant issue for regional councils, those interested in water allocation policy development, and for irrigated farmers. There is...

We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...

Stated preference approaches are widely used in non-market valuation. However, their potential uses extend far beyond valuation. In particular they can be used to assess efficiency of resource allocations and to design optimal resource allocations. Changes to the government budget were evaluated...

R&D spending in New Zealand is a mixture of private and public investment undertaken to improve productive activity and efficiency. Investment is split fairly equally between private business, government organisations and the universities. It is a long term investment with some uncertainty about...