Climate change poses significant risks to future crop productivity as temperatures rise, rainfall patterns become more variable, and pest and disease pressures increase. The use of crop genetic resources to develop varieties more tolerant to rapidly changing environmental conditions will be an...

According to advocates, eco-certification can improve developing country farmers’ environmental and economic performance. However, these notional benefits can be undercut by self-selection: the tendency of relatively wealthy farmers already meeting eco-certification standards to...

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Hazánk kedvező geológiai viszonyainak köszönhetően a geotermikus energia hasznosítására adottak a feltételek. A geotermikus energia felhasználása az 1960-as évektől lendült fel. Az addigi kitermelés kizárólag egészségügyi és gyógyászati célokat szolgált, ezután jelent...

A fosszilis energiaforrások kimerülésével előtérbe kerül a megújuló- és megújítható energiaforrások használata, mely tevékenység csökkenti energiafüggőség-ünket. Ennek megoldási módjait vizsgáltuk a mátrai és az egri borvidékeken – szőlész-borász szakemberek...

The 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments required that water utilities send quality reports to customers. We test whether receiving such reports of health violations increases purchases of bottled water using newly released data and disaggregate changes in demand at the intensive and...

We consider private provision of an environmental public good and the link between voluntary pollution-abatement markets and the optimal level of mandatory environmental regulation. We show that voluntary abatement markets react to the level of mandatory abatement imposed and that an optimal...

As the largest developing economy, China plays a key role in global climate change. Environmentally extended input-output analysis (EE-IOA) is an important and insightful tool seeing widespread use in studying large-scale environmental impacts in China: calculating and analyzing greenhouse gas...