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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
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Die Politiken der Gemeinschaft und die Berggebiete : Konferenzbeiträge ; Brüssel 17.-18. Oktober 2002
Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion … - 2003
2002 war das Internationale Jahr der Berge. In diesem Zusammenhang fanden in aller Welt zahlreiche Veranstaltungen statt, um das Verständnis für die Bedeutung der Bergwelt aus historischer, ökologischer, kultureller und wirtschaftlicher Sicht zu verbessern. Ferner sollte nach Wegen gesucht...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715232
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Impacts of Population and Income Growth Rates on Threatened Mammals and Birds
Pandit, Ram; Laband, David - 2011
Per capita income and human population levels in a country have direct influences on itsenvironmental outcomes. Countries with same level of income may have different rate ofincome growth and vice versa, suggesting that the influence of the rate of income growth onenvironmental outcomes could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443801
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Spatially explicit farming system modelling for an efficient agri-environmental policy design
Havlik, Petr; Bamiere, Laure; Jacquet, Florence; Millet, Guy - 2008
A mathematical programming model is developed and associated to a spatial pattern index (Ripley L function) to analyse the optimal reserve design and implementation for the Little Bustard conservation in Plaine de Niort. The model structure corresponds to three spatial levels, fields, farm and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445725
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A GERAÇÃO DE EXTERNALIDADES E O PROCESSO DE RECICLAGEM: A APLICAÇÃO DA METODOLOGIA DA ANÁLISE DO CICLO DE VIDA COMO FERRAMENTA GERENCIAL
Souza, Roberta Fernanda Da Paz De - 2008
externalities and the method of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) make part of this device. From its application the adoption of measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442794
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Jointly-Determined Livestock Disease Dynamics and Decentralized Economic Behavior
Gramig, Benjamin M.; Horan, Richard D. - 2009
We develop a dynamic model of livestock disease and decentralized economic behavior as a jointly-determined system. By accounting for feedbacks between behavioral choices and disease outcomes we capture the endogenous nature of infection risks. We consider government mandated testing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444700
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Contracting with Agents Seeking Status
Bontems, Philippe - 2009
We explore in this paper the consequences of status seeking preferences among agentscontracting with a private principal in the context of production. We examine in particular the case of envy and we show that in general envy entails augmented distortions due to asymmetric information in optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444735
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VALUATION OF EXTERNALITIES IN WATER, FORESTS AND ENVIRONMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Verghese, Shalet K.; Manjunatha, A.V.; Poornima, K.N.; … - 2008
Conceptual development in the theory ofexternalities have opened up several policy options for their internalization … including payment towards environmental services. Hence as externalities are socialcosts, accountability is crucial in … a modest attempt has been made to estimate externalities in water, forests and environment with field data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445647
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Adaptation, Internalization and Environmental Damage
Abrego, Lisandro; Whalley, John - 2002
significance of these responses to congestion externalities, and argue that they need to be taken into account in designing … internalization instruments. We consider labor-leisure, regional labor mobility and house price responses to congestion externalities … consequences of internalizing externalities. If adaptation is present, externalities will be partially internalized, the gains from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447218
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An Economic Approach to Climate Change
Bogard, Matt - 2008
reviews some of the literature and economic theory related to externalities, and focuses on two particular economist … situations where choices are incompatible, (often referred to as externalities) and proposing solutions. This presentation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466946