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A note on the valuation of collective goods: overlooked input market free riding for non-individually incrementable goods

Graves, Philip E. - 2009

For at least fifty years economists have argued that vertically-aggregated marginal willingness to pay, when set equal to marginal provision cost, will result in optimal public good provision levels. This methodological approach would be expected to yield an exact analog, in terms of optimal...

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Considering household size in contingent valuation studies

Ahlheim, Michael; Schneider, Friedrich - 2013

In many empirical contingent valuation studies one finds that household size, i.e. the number of household members, is negatively correlated with stated household willingness to pay for the realization of environmental projects. This observation is rather puzzling because in larger households...

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The Social Cost of Carbon and the Shadow Price of Carbon: what they are, and how to use them in economic appraisal in the UK

Price, Richard; Thornton, Simeon; Nelson, Stephen - 2007

This paper sets out: - a definition of the social cost of carbon, hitherto used in UK government appraisals to reflect the external costs of greenhouse gas emissions; - the rationale for adopting a shadow price of carbon (SPC) for use in policy and investment appraisals across UK government; and...

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Linking Resilience Theory and Diffusion of Innovations Theory to Understand the Potential for Perennials in the U.S. Corn Belt

Atwell, Ryan C.; Schulte, Lisa A.; Westphal, Lynne M. - 2009

. Adaptation of social actors through collaborative learning at the community level may be instrumental in brokering the sort of …

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Economic Valuation of Environmental Values of the Landscape Development and Protection Area of Volcji Potok

Verbic, Miroslav; Erker, Renata - 2007

When the market for a certain good is competitive enough, economic activities can be studied by the market pricing mechanism. Because this is usually not feasible in case of environmental goods with embodied natural and cultural heritage, particular methods for economic valuation of such goods...

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Causal Relationship Between Indicators of Human Health, the Environment and Socioeconomic Variables for the OECD Countries

Mariam, Yohannes - 1999

There has been a lot of debate regarding the impact of emissions of pollutants on human health and the environment. Epidemiological studies tend to show the impact of increased ambient concentrations of pollutants on increased hospital admissions, mortality, morbidity, respiratory problems, etc....

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Trends in Resource Extraction and Implications for Sustainability in Canada

Mariam, Yohannes - 1999

There is a disagreement on the concept, definition and application of the paradigm of sustainable development. The definition that has been accepted by many involves several components, and it is difficult to measure or quantify indicators. Depending on the structure of the economy, it is...

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Planning and costing of agricultural adaptation with reference to integrated hill farming systems in Nepal.

Paudel, Bikash; Tamang, B B; Lamsal, Krishna; Paudel, … - 2011

, through water harvesting and small-scale irrigation measures. …

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Measuring “Awareness of Environmental Consequences”: Two Scales and Two Interpretations

Ryan, Anthony M.; Spash, Clive L. - 2008

awareness of consequences scale being a valid measure of egoistic, social-altruistic and biospheric value orientations. These … public provides evidence for a reinterpretation of the scale. We believe the concepts of egoistic, social and biospheric … from the current awareness of consequences scale. The evidence shows the current scale must be reinterpreted as a measure …

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The effects of technology-as-knowledge on the economic performance of developing countries: An econometric analysis using annual publications data for Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa, 1976-2004

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - 2007

Extant literature indicates that technology, and by implication its underlying knowledge base, determines long-run economic performance. Absent from the literature with respect to developing countries are quantitative assessments of the nexus between technology as knowledge and economic...

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