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Alps. The article critically examines the outcomes of innovative governance responses to socio-ecological risk through an …
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The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather can differ significantly among farmers sharing … coffee farmers in Costa Rica. As expected, we find high levels of risk aversion, but even using that as a baseline, we … further find that farmers behave even more cautiously when the setting is characterized by unknown or ambiguous risk (i …
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Many landowners believe that to build a windfarm on their land they have to find a developer or be approached by a large utility.
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projects, attributes a share of the non-delivered CER to each risk, and identifies the most influential factors driving each … risk. 29% of expected CER will never be issued due to failure of projects (negative validation, project withdrawn, …), 12 …, auditor or consultant are occasionally important, but not for each risk. …
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Energy lies at the backbone of any advanced society and constitutes an essential prerequisite for economic growth, social order and national defense. However there is an Achilles heel to today׳s energy and technology relationship; namely a precarious intimacy between energy and the fiscal,...
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This paper makes three contributions to the developing literature on public opinion and understanding of CCS. The first is a discussion of online focus groups as a deliberative method in experimental and perhaps consultative contexts. The second is the role of anchoring and associative reasoning...
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structural dimensions of electricity's market risks, a retailer's level of risk exposure is unknown ex ante and will only be … through numerical simulations that in the current market context pure portfolios of contracts are incomplete risk management …
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setting up management strategies. Adopting the basic idea of spreading the risk from the field of finance, Modern Portfolio … Theory is used in the current analysis to quantify the risk associated with a range of irrigation investment strategies … and mitigating the associated risk and choosing more robust portfolios or management strategies. In this paper, a risk …
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alternative technical measures for natural hazard mitigation as well as with the results of a risk-based evaluation. We conclude … that the willingness to pay for avalanche protection of forests is about the same range as the collective risk related to a …
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alternative technical measures for natural hazard mitigation as well as with the results of a risk-based evaluation. We conclude … that the willingness to pay for avalanche protection of forests is about the same range as the collective risk related to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048061