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Based on theoretical aspects related to the role of education and environmental performance, continuing with market research and ending with conclusions, this paper aims to encourage stakeholders’ concerns in the environmental field. The most valuable part of the paper is the market research...
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The evolutions of the human society in past thirty years prove the necessity of an intervention to ensure a sustainable development. One of the most important principle of sustainability consist in preservation of natural resources and development of those activities, that can assure a real...
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This paper analyzes the links between agriculture and tourism. A contingent valuation study assesses tourist’s willingness to pay (WTP) for agro-tourism and agriculture’s positive environmental services and related positive externalities. The paper analyzes factors influencing tourist...
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Natural Resources and Environmental Services act as characterized public goods because they are sources of direct utility without any associated market with related prices. For instance, the recreational services of the natural parks are guaranteed to the visitors by an entrance payment ticket....
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This article aims to show that the impact of human activities on the ecosystem, measured by the Ecological Footprint, depends on the   qualitative and quantitative aspects of the population. Indeed, we confirmed our hypothesis by an empirical analysis on Tunisia, where it was revealed that the...
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This study focuses on the dynamic behaviour of a small open economy specialized in tourism based on natural resources when tourist services are supplied to foreign tourists who are crowding-averse and care for the environment. We analyse the steady-state properties of the model and a unique...
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Regions importance does not decrease in the global context of Economic Thought evolution as space-time technical and economic revolution has forced nations to conceive new production systems, compensate poverty gaps, environmental injury and other capitalist system consequences. Eco-turism has...
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The literature on trade in renewable resources implicitly assumes that the traded resources are perfect substitutes. We model trade in renewable resources as stipulated not only by autarky price differences, but also by consumers' love of variety. We show that the love-of-variety effect enables...
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How do we understand the synergies and trade-offs of a given policy on area beyond that policy, such as the effect of housing on health and on income? How do we choose between policies in completely different areas, such as an education policy and a health policy? Treasury's Living Standards...
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We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for 1990-2001 for fifteen European countries. In this sample, controlling for a number of factors, we find that average SWD is higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax,...
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