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This paper proposes an analysis of environmental services produced in rural areas and their links with the notions of organised proximity and geographical proximity. Among the different concepts of environmental services, we use that suggested by service economics to focus on the forms of...

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Land, environment and climate: Contributing to the global public good

Hertel, Thomas W. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

This paper discusses global public goods related to the world.s land resources, their current provision and likely future provision, their potential impacts on the world.s poorest households, as well as prospects for using foreign assistance to enhance th

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The media and discretionary behaviour of bureaucrats

Raschky, Paul A. - In: Applied economics letters 20 (2013) 10/12, pp. 945-948

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The social value of mortality risk reduction : VSL versus the social welfare function approach

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Determining the generalized discount rate for risky projects

Luo, Lanlan; Chen, Shou; Zou, Ziran - In: Environmental and resource economics 77 (2020) 1, pp. 143-158

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Risk and economic viability of housing climate adaptation strategies for wind hazards in southeast Australia

Stewart, Mark - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 20 (2015) 4, pp. 601-622

dominated by synoptic winds (thunderstorms and east-coast lows). Break-even estimates of risk reduction and adaptation cost for … adaptation is not cost-effective. It was found that this adaptation strategy can lead to risk reductions of 50–80 % at a cost of … approximately 1 % of house replacement value. If risk reduction is over 50 %, discount rate is 4 %, and there is no change of …

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