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Stated preference values for water quality ratings based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Water … rivers in the region for which water quality is rated Good. Valuations are skewed, with the mean value more than double the … median. Sources of heterogeneity in benefit values include differences in responses to average water quality information and …
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Examination of estimates of the income elasticity of the value of a statistical life based on international stated preference studies yields an average between 0.94 and 1.05 overall and 0.65 and 0.80 after controlling for covariates. Quantile regression estimates indicate that the income...
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During the 1990s scholarship about water security abounded. However that debate abated at the ‎turn of this century …. This lack of exploration is surprising, particularly given the negative impacts ‎of climate change upon the world's water … resources, and the concomitant water insecurity that ‎has resulted. The present article addresses water insecurity in the Middle …
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In light of growing water scarcity, virtual water, or the water embedded in key water-intensive commodities, has been … water scarcity affects conflict behavior and we still lack empirical research intending to account for the role of virtual … water in affecting the odds of militarized disputes between states. Using quantitative methods and data on virtual water …
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pt. 1. Theory and methods -- pt. 2. Frequency data -- pt. 3. Mixed data -- pt. 4. Discrete data -- pt. 5. Benefit …
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This article, focusing on produce and grain, discusses the environmental and climate change impacts of food production, processing, packaging, and distribution, which ultimately contributes to both economic and social costs. The article addresses environmental energy costs in the food supply
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What does global trade mean for the environment of any particular place? It can produce place-based transformations that are both positive and negative. The Kuznets curve is often touted as a solution that resolves the conflict between trade promotion and environmental protection by purporting...
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This paper suggests that a mixture of measures may be needed to encourage renewable energy under the Kyoto Protocol. It explains that the goal of maximizing short term cost effectiveness tends to conflict with the goal of encouraging the long-term technological development that the world will...
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