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Spatial and environmental issues related to mobility are exacerbated in urban areas. Road congestion, rivalry of use for parking spaces and air pollution are major issues regularly at the heart of local transportation policies. They have been dealt with through various approaches. Mass transit...
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Using a stated choice experiment, we find that a prime that makes environmental identity salient makes people behave greener, whereas it does not if it makes religious identity salient. Further-more, we discover non-linear priming effects for environmental identity, which means that rais-ing the...
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I analyze energy-efficiency policy as a prescription of a minimum-efficiency standard for energy-using household goods like cars, building insulation, and home appliances. Such a policy has two effects. At the intensive margin, a household that invests will choose a more efficient device. At the...
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Numerous attempts have been made to evaluate economic impacts by climate change, and the evaluation method can be classified into two approaches. One is a partial equilibrium approach and the other is a general equilibrium approach. The former method includes a travel cost method (TCM) and a...
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Historically, development in Brazilian Amazon was promoted by permits of deforestation and little territory control or supervision. However, due to the importance of this biome for biodiversity and ecosystem balance in a global perspective, Brazilian's government has tighten deforestation...
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The paper presents the evaluation of the economic impact of the support scheme for the Program for the support of the product tomatoes in protected areas for 2019, on the vegetable production sector, with an emphasis on the results of the production, the market effects, the impact on the...
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The huge territory and long distances between settlements (up to 700 km) determine the complex structure of the energy system of Yakutia. The average duration of the heating season in the region is 8-9 months, and 12 months in the Arctic. Electricity generation is carried out mostly by...
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Biogas is considered to be an important source of renewable energy, the production of which is on a continuous rise and which can be decisive for the elimination of fossil fuels by 2050. To reduce the negative impact of human actions on the environment, we must take measures urgent for...
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The paper presents the assessment of the economic impact in the vegetable production sector through the support scheme for the Program to support tomatoes in protected areas for 2020, focusing on production results, market effects, impact on producers, trade balance. In this context, the study...
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