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The impact of the increasing demand for biofuels in the EU on the possibility to conduct collective action for reaching a common good: The changes in the community-based management...
Miteva, Pavlina - 2014
on the community-based management of the pastures in Ethiopia. The paper analyzes the changes that the traditional … institutions for pasture management in Ethiopia are experiencing by applying Elinor Ostrom's design principles, while trying to … under biofuels, by affecting the size and functionality of the pastures, provokes the formation of clearly defined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369118
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The impact of the increasing demand for biofuels in the EU on the possibility to conduct collective action for reaching a common good
Miteva, Pavlina - 2014
on the community-based management of the pastures in Ethiopia. The paper analyzes the changes that the traditional … institutions for pasture management in Ethiopia are experiencing by applying Elinor Ostrom's design principles, while trying to … under biofuels, by affecting the size and functionality of the pastures, provokes the formation of clearly defined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364721
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Costs of Meeting the Cellulosic Biofuel Mandate with Perennial Energy Crops : Implications for Policy
Miao, Ruiqing - 2015
We develop a framework to examine the extent to which farmers' risk and time preferences, availability of credit to cover establishment cost, and crop insurance for conventional crops may influence farmers' decision to allocate land to a perennial energy crop and affect the costs of meeting a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020997
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Jatropha Potential on Marginal Land in Ethiopia: Reality or Myth?
Wendimu, Mengistu Assefa - 2013
understood/examined, especially in Africa. Using a case study of large-scale jatropha plantation in Ethiopia, this paper examines … that moisture stress is the key factor in the failure of many large-scale jatropha plantations in Ethiopia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101009
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Jatropha Potential on Marginal Land in Ethiopia: Reality or Myth?
Wendimu, Mengistu Assefa - Institut for Fødevare- og Ressourceøkonomi, … - 2013
understood/examined, especially in Africa. Using a case study of large-scale jatropha plantation in Ethiopia, this paper examines … that moisture stress is the key factor in the failure of many large-scale jatropha plantations in Ethiopia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822717
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Trade-offs between carbon sequestration, landscape aesthetics and biodiversity in a cost-benefit analysis of land use options in Norway
Iversen, Endre Kildal; Grimsrud, Kristine M.; Lindhjem, … - 2019
alternative program of recovering pastures and the status quo of natural reforestation. Combining the preference data with … pastures for grazing yields the highest net present value. Rural households closer to abandoned pastures are the largest … beneficiaries of this policy due to the value they place on pastures and their disutility of natural reforestation. Their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145560
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Trade-offs between carbon sequestration, landscape aesthetics and biodiversity in a cost-benefit analysis of land use options in Norway
Iversen, Endre Kildal; Grimsrud, Kristine M.; Lindhjem, … - 2019
alternative program of recovering pastures and the status quo of natural reforestation. Combining the preference data with … pastures for grazing yields the highest net present value. Rural households closer to abandoned pastures are the largest … beneficiaries of this policy due to the value they place on pastures and their disutility of natural reforestation. Their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102840
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Improvement of natural grassland as a factor of rural development in lower Danube Region
Jovanovic, Marijana; Arsic, Slavica; Pajcin, Djuro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The aim of this paper is presenting of importance of natural grasslands (meadows and pastures) in rural development of … pastures is on the second place, just behind arable land. Due to the presence of NP Đerdap on the territory of Lower Danube …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011157011
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The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages
Harstad, Bård - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
A conservation good, such as the rainforest, is a hostage: it is possessed by S who may prefer to consume it, but B receives a larger value from continued conservation. A range of prices would make trade mutually beneficial. So, why doesn't B purchase conservation, or the forest, from S? If this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294560
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The Drought and Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa: Impacts and Proposed Policy Responses for Kenya
Demombynes, Gabriel; Kiringai, Jane - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 71, pp. 1-4
As the world begins to feel the effects of climate change, the frequency of droughts is increasing in the Horn of Africa. In Kenya, the drought and food crisis affect welfare through two main channels. The first channel is the increased mortality of livestock in drought-affected areas, which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391829