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Transport and the economy: a 21st century approach
Whitelegg, John - In: EKONOMIAZ 73 (2010) 01, pp. 128-147
This article interrogates over 30 years of transport and economics research into the relationships between transport … and in most respects non-existent. Investing in new highways, airports and other large transport infrastructure projects …-coupling policies to improve competitiveness and quality of life through reducing the demand for transport, emissions and oil dependence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008866011
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Transporte y economía: un planteamiento para el siglo XXI
Whitelegg, John - In: EKONOMIAZ 73 (2010) 01, pp. 128-147
This article interrogates over 30 years of transport and economics research into the relationships between transport … and in most respects non-existent. Investing in new highways, airports and other large transport infrastructure projects …-coupling policies to improve competitiveness and quality of life through reducing the demand for transport, emissions and oil dependence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854720
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Ecological Dimension of Tire Management. Environmental Impact of Tire Use
Constantinescu, Constantin - In: International Journal of Academic Research in … 2 (2012) Special 1, pp. 187-195
The eco-efficiency situation is more present as we become more aware of the fact that nature has provided and continues to offer a variety of production and consumption goods, but one individual has to adjust responsibly to the natural capital in order to understand the need for using it in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706293
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A note on how to undertake a cost-benefit analysis in monetary and environmental units
Johansson, Per-Olov; Kriström, Bengt - CERE - the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics - 2010
In this note we discuss two alternative ways of undertaking a social cost-benefit analysis. One approach is the conventional one where benefits and costs are expressed in monetary units. The other approach uses an environmental asset as the payment vehicle. The properties of the two approaches...
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The Implication of Incorporating Environmental Costs in Utility Rate Setting
Mariam, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
, conservation and externalities. Externalities could include the direct and indirect environmental and human health cost of using … greater than the quantifiable and monetized impacts of environmental externalities. The need to account for environmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789245
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Economic valuation of forest ecosystem services : methodology and monetary estimates
Chiabai, Aline; Travisi, C. M.; Ding, H.; Markandya, A.; … - 2009
By using ad hoc value transfer protocols, this paper offers a methodological contribution and provides accurate per hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified following the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment taxonomy...
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Chinese urbanites and the preservation of rare species in remote parts of the country : the example of Eaglewood
Ahlheim, Michael; Frör, Oliver; Langenberger, Gerhard; … - 2014
Based on a Contingent Valuation study in Shanghai we assess people's willingness to contribute personally to the alleviation of environmental problems occurring in distant parts of the country. One split of our survey assessed Shanghai residents' willingness to pay for the preservation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436197
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Between complexity and unfamiliarity : preferences for soil-based ecosystem services
Bartkowski, Bartosz; Massenberg, Julian Richard; … - 2022
Soils provide multiple benefits for human well-being, which are largely invisible to most beneficiaries. Here, we present the results of a discrete choice experiment into the preferences of Germans for soil-based ecosystem services. To tackle complexity and unfamiliarity of soils, we express...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174951
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Ramsey Discounting of Ecosystem Services
Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2014
Most ecosystem services, which are essential for human well-being, are globally declining, while the production of consumption goods, measured by GDP, is still growing. To adequately account for this opposite development in public cost-benefit analyses, it has been proposed – based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063168
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Ramsey discounting of ecosystem services
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Klein, Alexandra M.; Thiel, Denise; … - 2013
Most ecosystem services, which are essential for human well-being, are globally declining, while the production of consumption goods, measured by GDP, is still growing. To adequately account for this opposite development in public cost-benefit analyses, it has been proposed - based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187850