ecological economics

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• Hydrological impact of biofuels

  
  Resilience Science — Authority: 419
  R. Dominguez-Faus and others analyze the impact of different biofuels on water in the USA in their article in Envir. Science and Technology, The Water Footprint of Biofuels: A Drink or Drive Issue? (doi:10.1021/es802162x).  The figure below, from the paper, shows the substantial ecological requirements (and ...
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• The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://ftp.iza.org/dp4478.pdf Abstract: In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals’ well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new ...
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• The Value of Statistical Life: Pursuing the Deadliest Catch

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/cprwps/pdf/wp117.pdf Abstract: Observed tradeoffs between monetary returns and fatality risk identify estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL), which inform public policy and quantify preferences for environmental quality, health and safety. To date, few investigations have ...
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• TEEB report released on the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://www.teebweb.org/InformationMaterial/TEEBReports/tabid/1278/language/en-US/Default.aspx According to The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TREEB) study hosted by the UN Environment Programme issued on November 13, 2009 Policy-makers who factor the planet’s multi-trillion dollar ecosystem services ...
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• Rates of Time Preferences for Saving Lives in the Hazardous Waste Site Context

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://www.feem.it/Feem/Pub/Publications/WPapers/WP2009-003.htm? Summary: What is the rate at which people discount future lives saved? The answer to this question has important implications when comparing policies on the grounds of cost per life saved, especially in the context of hazardous waste site remediation, ...
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• Economic valuation of marine and coastal biodiversity in North Adriatic Sea: socio-economic situation of the area and benefit transfer

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17793 Abstract: This report assess the monetary valuation of non-use values of marine and coastal biodiversity in North Adriatic Sea by using the technique of the benefit transfer. In addition to non-use values, it is possible to infer to use values through the analysis of economic ...
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• Assessing opportunity costs of conservation: Ingredients for protected area

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2009.05.004 Abstract: The Kakamega Forest is the only remaining tropical rainforest fragment in Western Kenya and hosts large numbers of endemic animal and plant species. Protected areas were established decades ago in order to preserve the forests unique biodiversity from being ...
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• Oil Prices and the Financial Crisis

  
  Resilience Science — Authority: 419
  The Financial Times suggests that the IEA agrees with Herman Daly (at least a little bit), in  Did oil cause the latest recession? IEA weighs into the debate:A feature in the draft executive summary of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook, which will be published tomorrow, revisits this argument and comes to a rather ...
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• Utah Refinery Blast

  
  popular logistics — Authority: 125
  Via TheStandard.Net , By Loretta Park (Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau), ( click here for article ) South Davis Metro Fire Agency Deputy Chief Jeff Bassett said the explosion occurred because a pipe carrying hydrogen and diesel overfilled and sent some of the product onto the ground, where it pooled. It found an ...
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• High-Voltage Transmission Lines: Proximity, Visibility, and Encumbrance Effects

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://www.appraisalinstitute.org/taj/ Abstract: In this study, over 1,200 home sales in 1998-2007 are aggregated into four study areas with a 345-kV transmission line. Field data are collected on the sale properties relative to proximity to and visibility of transmission line towers, and the extent of encumbrance ...
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• Economic Valuation of Forest Ecosystem Services: Methodology and Monetary Estimates

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://www.feem.it/Feem/Pub/Publications/WPapers/WP2009-012.htm 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 ...
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• Eliciting environmental preferences of Ghanaians in the laboratory: An incentive-compatible experiment

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17107/ Abstract: In this paper Yael Meroz, Andrea Morone, and Piergiuseppe Morone aim to look into the attributes of Ghanaians’ willingness-to-pay for green products. This would help ... assess whether Ghanaians show a preference towards environmental goods. The methodology employed ...
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• Economics: NeoClassical v Ecological

  
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  2009 Lamborghini Gallardo LP560 Spyder "All this matters because economists thought, wrote, and prescribed as if nature did not." J. R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun. ( ISBN-10: 0393321835) "Global Warming is nonsense. Greenhouse gases mean growth, far as I can see. The Earth is one big resource, ...
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• Measuring the environmental costs of tidal power plant construction: A choice experiment study

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2009.07.015 Abstract: Korea is considering the construction of a tidal power plant (TPP) at Garolim Bay. However, as the construction of the Garolim TPP (GTPP) is expected to entail some environmental damage, it has become an increasingly important topic for public debate. Using a ...
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• Valuation of natural marine ecosystems: an economic perspective

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2009.06.006 by Kyriaki Remoundou 1, Phoebe Koundouri 1, Areti Kontogianni 2, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes 3 and Michalis Skourtos 2 1. Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, 76 Patission Street, 104 34 Athens, Greece 2. ...
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• Systems Thinking on the Gross National Product

  
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  Robert F. Kennedy, in a speech at the University of Kansas, March 18, 1968,  said: Robert F. Kennedy "Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air ...
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• The opportunity cost of land use and the global potential for greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture and forestry

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2009.04.007 Abstract: This paper analyses the role of global land management alternatives in determining potential greenhouse gas mitigation by land-based activities in agriculture and forestry. Land-based activities are responsible for over a third of global greenhouse gas ...
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• Valuation of Marine Ecosystem Threshold Effects: Application of Choice Experiments to Value Algal Bloom in the Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://opus.bath.ac.uk/15971/1/0709.pdf Abstract: Algal bloom arises in part from anthropogenic emissions of nutrients into the coastal zone. Increased interest in water quality in coastal and marine areas stemming from the Water Framework Directive and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive leads to important ...
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• The 2008 WITCH Model: New Model Features and Baseline

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://www.feem.it/Feem/Pub/Publications/WPapers/WP2009-085.htm Summary: WITCH is an energy-economy-climate model developed by the climate change group at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). The model has been extensively used in the past 3 years for the economic analysis of climate change policies. WITCH is a ...
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• A cost–benefit analysis of the Stockholm congestion charging system

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 432
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2008.11.014 Abstract: This paper presents a cost–benefit analysis of the Stockholm congestion charging system, based on the observed rather than on the model-forecasted data. The most important data sources are travel time and traffic flow measurements made in the year before the ...
  4 weeks ago

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