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Die Rückgewinnung von Feuchtgebieten als eine Lösung für aktuelle Umweltprobleme : Hemmnisse und Möglichkeiten
Hofmeister, Friderike - 2006
Feuchtgebiete sind Ökosysteme, die durch die Anwesenheit vonWasser, spezielle Bodenverhältnisse und eine besondereVegetationszusammensetzung geprägt sind. Sie zählen zu den amstärksten bedrohten Ökosystemen der Erde. Im Verlauf des 20.Jahrhunderts nahm weltweit sowohl ihre Fläche als auch...
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Theoretical aspects of long-term evaluation in environmental economics
Traeger, Christian - 2006
The present work is dedicated to theoretical aspects of long-term evaluation with a focus on time and uncertainty … economics, decision theory, the economics of sustainability and cost benefit analysis. The thesis is structured in three parts … consumption. The second part introduces a generalized evaluation model and a new concept of risk aversion. The latter concept …
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The Role of Sensory Experiences and Information on the Willingness to Pay for Organic Wheat Bread
Boxall, Peter C.; Cash, Sean B.; Wismer, Wendy V.; … - 2007
This study examined the size and the determinants of the price premium a sample of Edmonton-area consumers was willing to pay for organic wheat bread. The development of these premiums included consideration of providing information on health or environmental advantages of organic production and...
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Essays on environmental and public economics
Williams, Roberton C. (contributor);  … - 2011
expenditures on the environment actually crowd in private giving, partly due to the increased fundraising response by charities …. The second essay examines the incidence of a pollution tax scheme in which tax revenue is returned to low-income workers …
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Contamination by the Israeli Military Industry and its Impact on Apartment Sale Prices in an Adjacent Tel-Aviv Neighborhood: A Hedonic Pricing Model Study
Shelem, Itai - 2008
A window of opportunity opened to investigate present effects of past environmental policies of the Israel Defense Forces and its military industry when one of its facilities, Taas Magen, was required to close down in 1997. For decades, untreated discharge was released into absorption pits,...
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Differences between Decision and Experienced Utility: An Investigation using the Choice Experiment method
Tinch, Dugald; Colombo, Sergio; Hanley, Nick - 2010
Recent work by Kahneman and others has led to a new focus in economics on a wellbeing-based approach to utility. This suggests that ‘experienced utility’ is an alternative and more appropriate basis for the measurement of economic value compared with ‘decision utility’. In this paper, we...
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Evaluation of selected environmental decision support software
Sullivan, T.M.; Moskowitz, P.D.; Gitten, M. - 2009
Decision Support Software (DSS) continues to be developed to support analysis of decisions pertaining to environmental management. Decision support systems are computer-based systems that facilitate the use of data, models, and structured decision processes in decision making. The optimal DSS...
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11.479 Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Planning in Developing Countries, Spring 2004
Davis, Jennifer - 2004
Policy and planning for the provision of water supply and sanitation services in developing countries. Reviews available technologies, but emphasizes the planning and policy process, including economic, social, environmental, and health issues. Incorporates considerations of financing, pricing,...
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Estimation of expected value for lognormal and gamma distributions. [Environmental pollutants]
White, G.C. - 2009
Concentrations of environmental pollutants tend to follow positively skewed frequency distributions. Two such density functions are the gamma and lognormal. Minimum variance unbiased estimators of the expected value for both densities are available. The small sample statistical properties of...
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