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Clean Energy Technologies : Assessing Advantages and Risks

Leal-Arcas, Rafael; Nacht, Yael; Madeleine, Laure; … - 2023

Our society increasingly depends on power and fuel in daily life. This reliance encourages legislators and regulators to place the ongoing energy supply at a relatively low and fixed price – what is often referred to as energy security – as one of their most crucial policy goals....

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Internalizing negative environmental impacts from wind power production : Coasian bargaining, offsetting schemes and environmental taxes

Greaker, Mads; Hagem, Cathrine; Skulstad, Andreas - 2022

On the one hand, wind power production is necessary for decarbonizing the electricity sector. On the other hand, we risk replacing one environmental problem with other environmental problems, that is, stopping climate change in exchange with increased loss of pristine land and biodiversity. The...

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Agro-Ecosystem Services - Governance Needs and Efficiency

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2010

This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics and suggests a holistic framework for analysis of management agro-ecosystem services. That new approach for analyses and assessment of management of agro-ecosystem services includes: definition of the...

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Economic Valuation of Forest Ecosystem Services : Methodology and Monetary Estimates

Chiabai, Aline; Travisi, Chiara; Ding, Helen; … - 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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Nautical Tourism, Carrying Capacity and Environmental Externality in the Lagoon of Marano and Grado

Silvestri, Francesco; Ghinoi, Stefano; Barone, Vincenzo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Tourism and environmental preservation are often conflicting activities, mainly in areas such as coastal lagoons, where seaside mass-tourism comes into contact with a very sensitive ecological system. In this paper we deal with a classical problem of both environmental and tourism economics, the...

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Scripting Languages for Geomorphological Modelling and Topographic Visualization of Serbia

Lemenkova, Polina - 2021

Scripting cartographic technique is a new method of geospatial data visualization – especially with thematic mapping such as geomorphological models. The purpose of this study was to explore the use of Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) and R for geomorphological and topographic mapping of Serbia...

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Meta-analysis of nature conservation values in Asia & Oceania: Data heterogeneity and benefit transfer issues

Tuan, Tran Hu; Lindhjem, Henrik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

dataset into two levels of heterogeneity in terms of good characteristics (endangered species vs. nature conservation more … increases with income. Increasing the degree of heterogeneity in the valuation data, however, preserves much of the regularity … most prudent MA practice is to control for heterogeneity in regressions and sensitivity analysis, rather than to limit …

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The Value of Native Bird Conservation: A New Zealand Case Study

Kaval, Pamela; Roskruge, Matthew - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2009

During December 2007 and January 2008, telephone surveys were used to randomly sample Waikato, New Zealand residents. The purpose of the surveys was to determine whether respondents valued native bird conservation programmes in their area. We elicited the contingent valuation approach to...

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Willingness to Pay for Biodiversity Conservation

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2009

Nature based tourism is the fastest growing tourism in many parts of the world. The attitude towards conservation of nature is measured by individuals¡¯willingness to pay. This study has made an attempt to investigate the determinants of tourists¡¯willingness to pay (WTP) for biodiversity...

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Eco-governance in Bulgarian Agriculture

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper presents the evolution of diverse modes of environmental management in Bulgarian agriculture, and assesses their efficiency and likely prospects of development. First, it analyzes the pace of development and the impact(s) on individual behavior of the major modes of environmental...

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