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Valuing financial, health, and environmental benefits of Bt cotton in Pakistan
Kouser, Shahzad; Qaim, Matin - 2012
Data from a farm survey and choice experiment are used to value the benefits of Bt cotton in Pakistan. Unlike previous … quantify and monetize positive externalities associated with technology adoption. Due to lower chemical pesticide use on Bt … environmental advantages in terms of higher biodiversity and lower soil and groundwater contamination. These positive externalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329961
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Valuing financial, health, and environmental benefits of Bt cotton in Pakistan
Kouser, Shahzad; Qaim, Matin - 2012
Data from a farm survey and choice experiment are used to value the benefits of Bt cotton in Pakistan. Unlike previous … quantify and monetize positive externalities associated with technology adoption. Due to lower chemical pesticide use on Bt … environmental advantages in terms of higher biodiversity and lower soil and groundwater contamination. These positive externalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357143
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Valuing financial, health, and environmental benefits of Bt cotton in Pakistan
Kouser, Shahzad; Qaim, Matin - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2012
Data from a farm survey and choice experiment are used to value the benefits of Bt cotton in Pakistan. Unlike previous … quantify and monetize positive externalities associated with technology adoption. Due to lower chemical pesticide use on Bt … environmental advantages in terms of higher biodiversity and lower soil and groundwater contamination. These positive externalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391715
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The social cost of CO2 from the PAGE09 model
Hope, Chris W. - 2011
A new version of the PAGE integrated assessment model, PAGE09, is introduced. The most important scientific, impact, emission and adaptation inputs in the latest default version of the model, PAGE09 v1.7 are described. The scientific and economic impact results are presented for a business as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306553
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The social cost of CO2 from the PAGE09 model
Hope, Chris W. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
A new version of the PAGE integrated assessment model, PAGE09, is introduced. The most important scientific, impact, emission and adaptation inputs in the latest default version of the model, PAGE09 v1.7 are described. The scientific and economic impact results are presented for a business as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323173
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The Cost of Misguided Urbanization: The Case of Informal Settlements in Butuan City, Philippines
Navarro, Ma. Kresna; Almaden, Catherine Roween - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The informal settlements in Butuan City, Philippines pose the intractable problem of housing and providing services for the urban poor. They exact tremendous costs to government infrastructure projects and the city as a whole. In this study, these costs are accounted for, particularly the costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108415
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Valuing mortality impacts of smoke exposure from major southern California wildfires
Kochi, Ikuho; Champ, Patricia A.; Loomis, John B.; … - In: Journal of Forest Economics 18 (2012) 1, pp. 61-75
While the mortality impacts of urban air pollution have been well addressed in the literature, very little is known about the mortality impacts and associated social cost from wildfire-smoke exposure (Kochi et al., 2010; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2004). In an attempt to address this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011190093
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Impactos ambientais e econômicos dos veículos elétricos e híbridos plug-in: Uma revisão da literatura
Vonbun, Christian - 2015
This paper presents a brief literature review concerning the costs and benefits of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, highlighting their advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Even though electric and electro-hybrid vehicles must still overcome many cultural and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372243
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Impactos ambientais e econômicos dos veículos elétricos e híbridos plug-in : uma revisão da literatura
Vonbun, Christian - 2015
This paper presents a brief literature review concerning the costs and benefits of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, highlighting their advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Even though electric and electro-hybrid vehicles must still overcome many cultural and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311589
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The economic valuation of natural hazards in mountain forests: An approach based on the replacement cost method
Notaro, Sandra; Paletto, Alessandro - In: Journal of Forest Economics 18 (2012) 4, pp. 318-328
Protection from natural hazards is the most important function of mountain forests from an ecological, economic and social point of view. This assertion has been widely debated in recent years by a number of authors. In this paper we focus on the economic aspects of the protective function of...
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