TTRIOPOL studies the role of domestic bioenergy potentials for agriculture, the wider economy and international trade for Austria. In particular, agricultural biomass pro-duction can contribute to significant shares of energy provision in Austria. A detailed scenario is developed to explore the...

This study uses survey data from randomly selected rural households in Ethiopia to examine the coping mechanisms employed by rural households to deal with fuelwood scarcity. The determinants of collecting other biomass energy sources were also examined. The results of the empirical analysis show...

This paper examines the role of uncertaincrude oil prices, uncertain crop yields, andcompetition for acreage on corn, soybean, andswitchgrass prices under biofuel production mandates.We find enforcement of the cellulosic mandateis costly in that it raises equilibrium prices of all threecrops...

This work illustrates the acceptability of innovations in the Italian dairy supply chain. The research is part of a larger study financed by the EU Commission (EU-FP7 SOLID - "Sustainable Organic and Low-Input Dairying") aimed at optimising the financial, agronomic and nutritional aspects of the...

The utilization of renewable energy sources (RES) by the Bulgarian households is studied in this article. A representative study of the Bulgarian population results in hypotheses, investigating the relation between socio-demographic issues and the use of alternative energy sources. The...

Given disparate beliefs about economic growth, technical change and damage caused by climate change, this paper starts with the seeming impossibility of determining a unique time profile of the social costs of carbon as a benchmark for climate negotiations and for infrastructure decisions that...

This paper dicusses on the issue of the development of China s market economy from six aspects. (1) Basic Content and Conclusions on the development of China s market economy. (2) Further progress in building market-oriented economy in China. (3) Assessment of the degree of market economy...

Este artículo muestra una perspectiva teórica sobre la fijación de precios en el diseño de tarifas óptimas (la tarifa óptima en dos partes) para el servicio municipal de suministro de agua en un contexto urbano. La complejidad de la fijación de precios consiste en que debe responder a la...

Esta investigación emplea resultados experimentales para estudiar el comportamiento de personas que en su vida real son altamentedependientes de la explotación de un recurso natural de uso común, explorando su propensión a apropiarse de la mayor cantidad posiblede recursos con el fin de...

William Forster Lloyd's 1833 sketch about poor cattle on the commons and the well-fed animals on the adjacent enclosures published in his 'Two lectures on the checks to population' has hitherto been assessed as one starting point of the economics of renewable resources. In the 20th century the...