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In this paper we try to contribute to the understanding of the persistence and increase of meat eating in the face of … mounting evidence on the ills of meat production and consumption by considering the role of selective attention and learning … campaigns about the externalities of meat consumption might be ineffective as the informational content may be lost on precisely …
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, economic and demographic growth could boost the demand for meat, with significant environmental repercussions. We model meat … improvements - meat demand in SSA is bound to become a major sustainability challenge. We show that a partial substitution of the …
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The opportunity Value of Travel Time (VTT) is one of the most important parts of the total cost of recreation day-trips and arguably the most difficult to estimate. Most studies build upon the theoretical framework proposed by Becker's (1965) by using a combination of revealed and stated...
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We find three intertwined ambitions that drove federal legislation over wildlife and biodiversity at the beginning of the 20th Century: establishment of multiple-use federal lands, the economic development of natural resources, and the maintenance of option values. We examine this federal...
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The co-management approach of managing natural resources has increasingly become popular among conservationists and development practitioners since it overcomes the shortcomings of both the centralised management and community-based approaches that hinder harmonization of conflicting interests...
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After several decades of academic research on the contingent valuation (CV) method a consistent behavioral explanation of ‘hypothetical bias’ is still lacking. Based on evidence from economics, economic psychology and the political sciences, I propose an explanation that is based on two...
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