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Trading off use restrictions and benefit-sharing for genetic materials for food and agriculture with an emphasis on upfront payments
Seyoum, Aseffa; Welch, Eric W. - In: Wie viel Markt und wie viel Regulierung braucht eine …, (pp. 307-318). 2014
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Measurement of use and non-use values of Shirakami Mountain Range by using CVM consistent with TCM
Ohno, Eiji; Mori, Ryuta; Morisugi, Masafumi; Sao, Hiroshi - 2013
In this study, we have constructed a valuation model based on the CVM consistent with the TCM, in order to measure the use and the non-use values of environmental goods consistently. And the practicality of our model has been examined, by applying this model to measurement of environmental...
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An e-ambulance project in Kochi Prefecture, one rural area in Japan
Matsumoto, Yoshihisa; Ogawa, Masaru; Tsuji, Masatsugu - 2017
This study aims at evaluating the economic effect of a e-ambulance project, or emergency telemedicine in the rural areas in Kochi Prefecture in Japan. The focus is on ambulances equipped with ICT devices which transmit images of acute patients to remote hospitals. Kochi Prefecture started the...
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Organic farming and biodiversity
Roșu, Elisabeta - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 122-129). 2023
environmental protection, through the conservation of soil, improvement of water quality and support to biodiversity. The present … organic farming provides a favorable framework for maintaining biodiversity, using friendly, economically and socially …
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Economic approach to nature conservation : land use change
Ramos, Pedro - 2015
The relationship between land use and biodiversity is important to understand the decision support systems in order to … attain sustainability. Nowadays, land use and biodiversity management is focused on protected areas, discarding other … understanding of endemic species value is a remarkable tool to preserve biodiversity, thus affecting social welfare. The aim of this …
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Identification, monitoring and conservation of the biodiversity of the national heritage of the Romanian buffalo breed, using breeding biotechnoligies
Tobă, George Florea; Ciornei, Ştefan Gregore; … - 2021
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Modelling the cost-effective spatio-temporal allocation of conservation measures in agricultural landscapes facing climate change
Gerling, Charlotte; Drechsler, Martin; Keuler, Klaus; … - 2021
In agricultural landscapes, climate change has profound impacts on species that society aims to conserve. In response to climate change, species may adapt spatially (with range shifts) and temporally (with phenological adaptations), which may make formerly effective conservation sites and...
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Valuation of ecosystem services of protected areas
Larkova, Maria S. - 2014
Understanding that the environment is more than the resource base of human economic activities was a watershed in the awareness of the real value of the environment and the need for an assessment of its quality. The complex of benefits from ecosystems that people obtain in the literature became...
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Biodiversity prospecting over time and under uncertainty : a theory of sorts
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014
Biodiversity prospecting refers to the exploration of the commercial value of genetic and biochemical resources. In …
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Do freight transport time savings translate to benefit for transport consuming companies?
Sambracos, Evangelos; Ramfou, Irene - In: The international journal of business science & applied … 11 (2016) 2, pp. 2-11
It is common practice in Benefit - Cost analysis to consider freight transport time savings (FTTS) as a benefit for both transport producing and consuming companies. While transportation projects and policies resulting in FTTS are expected to have a positive effect on carriers' performance...
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