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Biodiversity conservation through private initiative : the case of Earth Sanctuaries Ltd
Grolleau, Gilles; Peterson, Deborah C. - In: European journal of law and economics 40 (2015) 2, pp. 293-312
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurial Growth Aspirations?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewics, Tomasz - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191026
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Carbon sequestration in forests and soils
Sedjo, Roger A.; Sohngen, Brent - In: Annual review of resource economics 4 (2012), pp. 127-144
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Carbon Sequestration in Forests and Soils
Sedjo, Roger A. - 2015
greenhouse gas; through biological growth, which can increase forest stocks; or through deforestation, which can increase carbon … emissions. Carbon is captured not only in tree biomass but also in forest soils. Forest management and public policy can … strongly influence the sequestration process. Economic policies can provide incentives for both forest expansion and …
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Decentralization and natural disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2013
level of government. The next section discusses the empirical results that have been found in the literature. A third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724002
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What Drives Microfinance Institution's Financial Sustainability
Ayayi, Ayi Gavriel - 2011
Microfinance promises to trim down poverty. To achieve this noble objective microfinance institutions (MFIs) have to become steady profitable because donor constancy is not a given. Thus important question is: what factors drive the financial sustainability of MFIs? Using data on 217 MFIs in 101...
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Decentralization and Natural Disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy - 2013
level of government. The next section discusses the empirical results that have been found in the literature. A third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083868
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Connotation of Minor Millet Biodiversity and Indirect Payments in Tribal Homesteads in the Backdrop of Climate Change
Aravindakshan, Sreejith - 2014
Unscathed agrobiodiversity remaining in-situ today is found on the small-scale farms and homestead gardens of poorer and developing countries (Brookfield, 2001). The indigenous traditional farming of Muthuvan tribe as the case of Finger millet or Ragi (Eleusine coracana), a minor millet...
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A Brief Understanding of Hunger and its Resolution
Giovannucci, Daniele - 2014
Food is one of the most primal ways to transmit culture and traditions and thus has vital and even cross-generational importance for us. Nevertheless, many of us have gone beyond relating to food as a primal need. So, in this age of abundance, food is either under-appreciated as epitomized by...
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Human Capital Investment After the Storm
Billings, Stephen B. - 2020
We provide a novel test for the impact of wealth-destroying natural disasters on college decisions using Hurricane Harvey (Aug-Sep 2017). First, we compare enrollment and graduation outcomes at Texas public universities and colleges according to their student share from disaster-affected...
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