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Czarnezki, Jason J. - 2018

This article, focusing on produce and grain, discusses the environmental and climate change impacts of food production, processing, packaging, and distribution, which ultimately contributes to both economic and social costs. The article addresses environmental energy costs in the food supply

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The Mechanism of Attributing Economic Value to the Natural Environment

Szymanski, Piotr - 2011

The absence of costs of externalities generated in the environment by business operations results in suboptimal resource allocation in Pareto terms as well as in Kaldor-Hicks terms, the destruction of valuable natural areas and the reduction in biodiversity. The article examines the existing...

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C(r)ap and Trade : The Brave New World of Non-Point Source Nutrient Trading and Using Lessons from Greenhouse Gas Markets to Make It Work

Flatt, Victor Byers - 2015

After several decades of improvement, water quality in the United States is getting worse, and the problem is primarily caused by run-off from non-point sources, such as farms and urban development. These non-point sources have never had regulatory mandates in the Clean Water Act, and have...

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Natural Resource Restoration

Kanner, Allan - 2017

Public trustees at the state, federal, and tribal level are tasked with ensuring that those responsible for destroying or damaging natural resources sufficiently compensate the public for its loss. Those trustees have the fiduciary duty to maintain and restore the natural resources within the...

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Governing the Ungovernable : Integrating the Multimodal Approach to Keeping Agricultural Land Use from Swallowing Ecosystems

Robbins, Kalyani - 2015

As the population grows, so does the conflict between demand for agricultural productivity and the need to maintain healthy ecosystems. Unfortunately, this concern alone does not motivate the agricultural industry to operate in a more environmentally friendly manner, nor is it an industry that...

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Chapter 63 Development Aid and Agriculture

Herdt, Robert W. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3253-3304). 2010

leaders interact with theories of economic growth and evidence on the impact of past aid, and that agricultural aid has … contribution of aid to overall economic growth, then reviews the evidence of whether agricultural aid accelerates agricultural or …. Economic growth takes time, and donors have not stayed committed to key activities for a sufficiently long time to achieve …

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The 'Fiscal Presource Curse' : Giant Discoveries and Debt Sustainability

Ruzzante, Matteo; Sobrinho, Nelson - 2022

This paper investigates the dynamic impact of natural resource discoveries on government debt sustainability. We use a ‘natural experiment’ framework in which the timing of discoveries is treated as an exogenous source of within-country variation. We combine data on government debt, fiscal...

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Bioenergy production from sunflower husk in Ukraine : potential and necessary investments

Horák, Jakub; Bilan, Yuriy; Dankevych, Andrii; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 24 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19

Sunflower is a strategic crop in the agriculture of Ukraine as it is important for food and energy production. Recently the processing of secondary products, solving the issues of waste disposal and improving the environment have been paid much attention. This is an example of a cyclic economy,...

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Corporate Governance and Environmental Performance

Stuebs, Marty; Sun, Li - 2023

Prior research suggests a positive link between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Environmental activities play an important role in a company’s CSR activities. This study finds that corporate governance is positively associated with environmental performance, and...

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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis

Narula, Smita - 2015

The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in large part to consecutive food and economic crises. Over ninety-eight percent of these individuals live in the developing world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food...

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