According to experts, investments are the most important means of development and economic growth (if not the only one). Indeed, any stable economy cannot be conceived without the support of significant investments in all fields of activity: economic, social, cultural etc. Sustainable...

In this work, I applied contingent valuation and choice experiments to verify their consistency for the estimated parameters. To accomplish this goal, the following attributes of the Sierra Nevada National Park were considered: hunting rate of the Andean bear, use of banned pesticides, rate of...

We construct a hybrid, economic indicator of the sustainability of global well-being, which is more inclusive than existing indicators and incorporates an environmentally pessimistic, physical constraint on global warming. Our methodology extends the World Bank's Adjusted Net Saving (ANS)...

This paper establishes a new method for eliciting Willingness to Pay (WTP) in contingent valuation (CV) studies with an open-ended elicitation format: the Range-WTP method. In contrast to the traditional approach for eliciting Point-WTP, Range-WTP explicitly allows for preference uncertainty in...

This report elucidates one aspect of economic IAMs: the damage function. Damage functions map environmental changes (primarily mean temperature increases) to economic impacts. This crucial step in the determination of SCC appears in very different form in the leading economic IAMs. Through...

La tutela e la valorizzazione del paesaggio rurale rappresentano temi di rilievo strategico all’interno della Politica Agricola Comunitaria (PAC). E evidente, infatti, che le caratteristiche di un paesaggio rurale possono mutare significativamente a seconda dei possibili cambiamenti di...

The quintessence of recent natural science studies is that the 2°C target can only be achieved with massive emission reductions in the next few years. The central twist of this paper is the addition of this limited time to act into a non-perpetual real options framework analysing optimal...

This study explores the determinants of health status in Turkey. Moreover, this study explores the willingness to pay for reducing the air and noise pollution. The estimates are based on data from the annual Income and Living Conditions Survey (ILCS) in Turkey which took place in period...

This article presents the institutional and legal framework in the field of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) management and elements of environmental impact in conditions that are not complying with the regulations on the WEEE management. The study is based on the description of...

Das Erdbeben vom 11. März 2011 hat Japans Energiesystem physisch schwer getroffen. Quantitativ weit schwerwiegender war jedoch der Einschnitt, den die Abschaltung von Kraftwerksleistung wegen Verdachts auf einen allen Atomkraftwerken gemeinsamen Auslegungsfehler mit sich brachte. Hans-Jochen...