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Wildlife conservation and management in Kenya : towards a co-management approach

Mburu, John - 2004

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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Farm animal biodiversity conservation activities in Europe under the framework of Agenda 2000

Signorello, Giovanni; Pappalardo, Gioacchino - 2002

In this paper we examine the content of farm animal biodiversity conservation measurescurrently under implementation in … sheep breeds. As concerns the financial aspects of livestock biodiversity measures, we note that the payments offered to … suggest the need for a revision of the current EU supporting measures related to the conservation of livestock biodiversity …

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Biodiversity and economic growth : stabilization versus preservation of the ecological dynamics

Antoci, Angelo; Borghesi, Simone; Russu, Paolo - 2004

This work examines the impact that economic growth can have on biodiversity and on the ecological dynamics that would … naturally emerge in the absence of human activity. The loss of biodiversity may induce policy-makers to implement defensive … exist in the absence of human intervention. This suggests that there might exist a conflict between preserving biodiversity …

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Appraising diversity with an ordinal notion of similarity : an axiomatic approach

Bervoets, Sebastian; Gravel, Nicholas - 2004

This paper provides an axiomatic characterization of two rules for comparing alternative sets of objects on the basis of the diversity that they offer. The framework considered assumes a finite universe of objects and an a priori given ordinal quadernary relation that compares alternative pairs...

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Biodiversity conservation on private lands : information problems and regulatory choices

Goeschl, Timo; Lin, Tun - 2004

This survey paper examines various information insufficiencies in biodiversity conservation and their impact of … making efficient biodiversity conservation decisions: 1) biological uncertainty 2) natural uncertainty 3) individual …

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Reducing acidification : the benefits of increased nature quality : investigating the possibilities of the contingent valuation method

Ruijgrok, E. C. M. - 2004

In order to complete cost benefit analyses of acidification policies, an attempt was made to monetarize the benefits of increased nature quality. So far, several benefits of acidification abatement, such as reduced health risks, had been determined, but the benefits of increased nature quality...

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Oil price forecast evaluation with flexible loss functions

Bastianin, Andrea; Manera, Matteo; Markandya, Anil; … - 2011

The empirical literature is very far from any consensus about the appropriate model for oil price forecasting that should be implemented. Relative to the previous literature, this paper is novel in several respects. First of all, we test and systematically evaluate the ability of several...

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A comparison between shale gas in China and unconventional fuel development in the United States : health, water and environmental risks

Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013

China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...

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Environmental Kuznets Curves for carbon emissions : a critical survey

Aslanidis, Nektarios - 2009

The empirical finding of an inverse U-shaped relationship between per capita income and pollution, the so-called Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), suggests that as countries experience economic growth, environmental deterioration decelerates and thus becomes less of an issue. Focusing on the...

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What should we expect from innovation? : a model-based assessment of the environmental and mitigation cost implications of climate-related R&D

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - 2010

This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies complement carbon pricing (taxes or permit trading) and...

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