The social and economical development must be approached in such a way that it minimizes the effects of the economic activity over the deterioration of resources and to discourage waste. The pollution control depends on humans’ ability to understand the seriousness of the ecological lack of...

Proposals specifically aimed at environmental benefits or enhancements are often exempt from environmental assessment, despite evidence that they can be counter-productive. This is true of agri-environmental schemes where local farm-scale actions are expected to generate large-area cumulative...

This paper analyzes the eects of the New Source Review (NSR) environmental regula-tions on coal-red electric power plants. Regulations that grew out of the Clean Air Actof 1970 required new electric generating plants to install costly pollution control equipmentbut exempted existing plants....

Random Utility Maximization (RUM) models of recreation demand are typically plaguedby limited information on environmental and other attributes characterizing the available sitesin the choice set. To the extent that these unobserved site attributes are correlated with theobserved characteristics...

Every participant in the life of a local community, hence the local community of the island of Krk as well, must develop an awareness of how they can cooperate in the improvement of quality, environmental protection and safety. This awareness can be achieved through constant education, and the...

Every participant in the life of a local community, hence the local community of the island of Krk as well, must develop an awareness of how they can cooperate in the improvement of quality, environmental protection and safety. This awareness can be achieved through constant education, and the...

Today’s worldwide concern regarding environment issues is by no means a passing fancy of no substance but a vital problem of epic proportions. Although tons of research performed since the last decades of the 20th Century have sufficiently proved the causes and effects of our environment...

Die Folgen der tiefgreifenden weltweiten Finanz- undWirtschaftskrise prägen im Frühjahr 2009 auch dieLage der maritimen Wirtschaft in Deutschland. Nacheinem lang anhaltenden, zeitweise boomartigen Auf -schwung in nahezu allen maritimen Bereichen mussdie Branche derzeit teilweise erhebliche...