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Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and biodiversity conservation in developing countries. We first discuss some of the … framework in 11 biodiversity PES field projects to evaluate the impacts on biodiversity conservation and rural development. We … inherent complexities and uncertainties when linking biodiversity to ecosystem services and the related inconsistencies to deal …
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Las areas rurales de toda Europa estan cada vex mas identificadas como reservas de calidad ambiental. A pesar de la diversidad de las areas rurales europeas, podemos reconocer la importancia que actualmente asumen las cuestiones ambientales en la construccion social e institucional de lo rural....
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Economic theory suggests that price incentives can be used to encourage water conservation in residential consumers …. Conservation water rates are designed to send price signals that encourage households to reduce discretionary water use in the long … term.However, it is not always clear that conservation rates effectively provide meaningful incentives. Utilities …
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Many environmental policy issues involve conflicts between nature conservation and economic development. The economic …
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FOOD SECURITY RESEARCH PROJECT, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA
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Economic theory suggests that price incentives can be used to encourage water conservation in residential consumers …. Conservation water rates are designed to send price signals that encourage households to reduce discretionary water use in the long … term. However, it is not always clear that conservation rates effectively provide meaningful incentives. Utilities …
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We examine policy implications of including rural viability to the notion of multifunctional agriculture. We assume that rural viability refers predominantly to the number of people living in rural areas to keep the infrastructure and living conditions at good state for a good life. The economic...
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Replaced with revised version of paper 09/27/11.
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value of the impact on indigenous biodiversity is a key aspect of the economics typically involving cost-benefit analysis … biodiversity in a freshwater environment. Using the stated preference tool, Choice Modelling, the experimental design was maximised … show an efficient design with minimal sample size and biodiversity attributes that have values statistically different from …
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