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Environmentally adjusted multifactor productivity : Accounting for renewable natural resources and ecosystem services
Cárdenas Rodríguez, Miguel - 2023
Multifactor productivity is a comprehensive measure of productivity where the underlying production function accounts for multiple factor inputs, traditionally labour and produced capital. While single-factor productivity is intuitively simple, such measure offers a biased picture of the economy...
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The Impact of International Organizations on the Environment : An Empirical Analysis
Dreher, Axel - 2006
When analyzing the impact of international organizations on the environment, two main issues arise. First, we have to … international organizations affect the environment directly via their impact on CO2 emissions. Projects financed by World Bank, ADB …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733981
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Ecosystems and Human Health : The Local Benefits of Forest Cover in Indonesia
Garg, Teevrat - 2019
This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response and land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of forest cover loss on increased malarial incidence. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901463
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Ecosystems and Human Health : The Local Benefits of Forest Cover in Indonesia
Garg, Teevrat - 2019
This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860523
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Firm-Level Financial Resources and Environmental Spills
Cohn, Jonathan B. - 2018
Using novel US environmental spill data, we document a robust negative relationship between the number of spills a firm experiences in a given year and its contemporaneous and lagged (but not future) cash flow. In addition, studying two natural experiments, we find an increase (decrease) in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922217
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Ecosystems and human health : the local benefits of forest cover in Indonesia
Garg, Teevrat - 2019
This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126012
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Energy and the Environment in Economic History
Clay, Karen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Both energy and the environment are inputs into production, influencing the economy and the overall welfare of the … population. While the economy itself has been a central focus of economic history from its inception, energy and the environment … some thoughts regarding opportunities for further research in energy and the environment …
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Limits to substitution between ecosystem services and manufactured goods and implications for social discounting
Drupp, Moritz A. - 2016 - This version: March 29, 2016
This paper examines implications of limits to substitution for estimating substitutability between ecosystem services and manufactured goods and for social discounting. Based on a model that accounts for a subsistence requirement in the consumption of ecosystem services, we provide empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446656
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Relative price changes of ecosystem services : evidence from Germany
Heckenhahn, Jonas; Drupp, Moritz A. - 2022
Discounting future costs and benefits is a crucial yet contentious practice in the appraisal of long-term public projects with environmental consequences. The standard approach typically neglects that ecosystem services are not easily substitutable with manufactured goods and often exhibit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168021
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Valuation of ecosystem services provided by biodiversity conservation : an integrated hydrological and economic model to value the enhanced nitrogen retention in renaturated stream...
Bräuer, Ingo; Marggraf, Rainer - 2004
The importance of ecosystem functions for humankind is well known. But only few attempts have been undertaken to estimate the economic value of these ecosystem services. In particular, indirect methods are rarely used, even though they are most suitable for the task. This discrepancy is because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601166