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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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Regulation of meat consumption appears to be a relevant public policy to limit diet-related greenhouse gas emissions … between meat consumption and nutritional outcomes, such as body mass index (BMI) and unhealthy food intake, according to … individual educational attainment. We reveal that among adults with low education levels, reduced meat consumption was …
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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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There is growing concern among policymakers and researchers about the negative health and climate impacts of meat …. From the climate perspective, reductions in meat purchases could reduce emissions from production and consumption. …
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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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