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Animal welfare is a significant issue in wildlife tourism and is becoming an important component in tourists' decisions. This study explored the type of tourists who most likely visit different elephant tourism venues and compared tourist attitudes pre-and post-visit. We surveyed 132 tourists at...
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. Using an exploratory case study on urban wild meat trade (Republic of Congo), we describe some of the strategies used to …
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The objective of this paper is to provide an estimate of the elasticity of elephant poaching with respect to prices. Ivory being a storable commodity subjects its price to Hotelling's no-arbitrage condition, hence allowing identification of the supply curve. The price of gold, one of many...
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This paper estimates the elasticity of elephant poaching with respect to prices. To identify the supply curve, the authors observe that ivory is a storable commodity and hence subject to Hotelling's no-arbitrage condition. The price of gold, one of many commodities used as stores of value, is...
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Cultured meat obtained in vitro from animal cells represents one of the recent concerns of specialists, who thus try to … solve part of the issues related to animal welfare and sustainable meat production. Beyond the technical difficulties that … must be overcome, the acceptance of cultured meat by consumers is not an easy goal to achieve, as it depends on factors …
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Today's food systems are neither healthy nor sustainable, and excessive levels of meat consumption in high … or limit their meat consumption). There is limited insight on the meat consumption patterns of this growing population … meat, their consumption of specific types of meat (beef, chicken, pork, lamb) and fish, and their willingness to further …
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Due to the negative impacts of meat consumption, finding ways to reduce individual meat intake is an urgent issue. The … consequences of meat would reduce peoples' meat consumption. The study further investigated the role of a range of potential … increase in meat consumption over the course of the one-week intervention. Neither animal welfare, environmental, nor health …
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Due to growing health and environmental problems related to the overconsumption of meat in western diets, we …. Consumers favoured the reduced portion sizes when faced with the meat reduction task. This reduction preference is even more … prevalent among regular consumers of the meat dish, i.e. consumers with relevant consumption habits to reconsider. We discuss …
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Meat consumption has come under scrutiny due to its significant ecological footprint. Understanding the determinants of … meat consumption is crucial for designing effective interventions to promote sustainable diets. Thus, using results from … regression, this research aims to explore the most influential determinants of meat consumption behaviours within the framework …
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