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Context-Dependent Biodiversity Conservation Management Regimes
Gjertsen, Heidi; Behr, Diji Chandrasekharan - 2000
"The central challenge of tropical biodiversity conservation involves reconciling private and social incentives to … ensure biodiversity conservation and an equitable distribution of benefits and costs. There has been little theory or … representing community) who must perform two authoritative tasks related to biodiversity conservation: rule-making and rule …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468344
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Projections of economic impacts of climate change in agriculture in Europe
Quiroga, Sonia; Iglesias, Ana - 2007
The objective of this study is to provide monetary estimates of the impacts of climate change inEuropean agricultural sector. The future scenarios incorporate socio-economic projectionsderived from several socio-economic scenarios and experiments conducted using global climatemodels and regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445044
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Collaboration within the UK Farm Industry
Alliston, John C.; Newton, David; Gonzalez-Diaz, Francisco - 2005
commercial sectors in order to identify transferable elements. The Report of the Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443901
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Common Assets: Asserting Rights to Our Shared Inheritance
Watt, Helen Payne - 2000
"Many of what we consider to be valuable natural assets existed for millennia without our ever being aware of their usefulness or value. For example, the capacity of the atmosphere to absorb pollution has only become useful to us in recent decades as the limits of that environmental service have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468379
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MITIGATION OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS: THE IMPACTS ON A DEVELOPED COUNTRY HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON AGRICULTURE
Saunders, Caroline M.; Wreford, Anita - 2003
European Union (EU), which has a low proportion of GHG coming from agriculture, a highly protected agriculture sector, and is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442426
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MARGINAL ABATEMENT COSTS FOR REDUCING LEACHING OF NITRATES IN CROATIAN FARMING SYSTEMS
Sumelius, John; Grgic, Zoran; Mesic, Milan; Franic, Ramona - 2003
The aim of this paper is to identify optional ways of preventing NO3-levels from rising within Croatian farming systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442427
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Estimating Economic Health Costs of Not Controlling Toxic Water Pollution
Easter, K. William; Konishi, Yoshifumi - 2006
The purpose of this paper is to determine what types of information may be important in determining the welfare benefits of preventing toxic water contamination when a given type of toxification occurs (or is likely to occur) in a given setting. It attempts to identify information and behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442452
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Productivity and Environmental Performance in Marketing Cooperatives: Incentive Schemes on the Horticultural Sector
Galdeano-Gomez, Emilio; Cespedes-Lorente, Jose; … - 2006
inputs/outputs. In the European agricultural policy, expectations for attaining sustainable and competitive agriculture lie …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442458
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Consumer’'s WTP for Environment-Friendly Production Methods and Collective Reputation for Place of Origin: The Case of Val di Gresta’'s Carrots
Scarpa, Riccardo; Thiene, Mara; Marangon, Francesco - 2006
This paper investigates preferences for various environment-friendly production system for carrots using discretechoice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442471
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Bringing Biophysical Models into the Economic Laboratory: An Experimental Analysis of Sediment Trading in Australia
Tisdell, John - 2006
Experimental economics has emerged and matured as a formal method for questioning and stress testing economic theory and assumptions concerning individual behavior. More recently, experimental methods have been used successfully in an economic laboratory to test alternative environmental policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442474