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Using satellite images to measure crop productivity : long-term impact assessment of a randomized technology adoption program in the Dominican Republic
Salazar, Lina; Palacios, Ana Claudia; Selvaraj, Michael; … - 2021
This study combines three rounds of surveys with remote sensing to measure long-term impacts of a randomized irrigation program in the Dominican Republic. Specifically, Landsat 7 and Landsat 8 satellite images are used to measure the causal effects of the program on agricultural productivity,...
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How Does Legislation Affect Oil Palm Smallholders in the Sanggau District of Kalimantan, Indonesia?
Gillespie, Piers - 2012
Southeast Asia, predominantly in Indonesia and Malaysia. To date, attention on palm oil has primarily focused on the … role that legislation plays at the plantation/company-smallholder interface in Indonesia.Based on an analysis of relevant … plantation legislation and multi-site fieldwork in Indonesia, this article considers how national and district oil palm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110636
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On the political economy of environmental policy
Kirchgässner, Gebhard; Schneider, Friedrich - 2002
In the past there was hardly any use of economic instruments in environmental policy, mainly command and control measures were used. More recently, ecological taxes as well as tradable permits became more popular and voluntary agreements have been implemented. Using the Public Choice approach we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001737578
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Heterogeneous international agreements : if per capita emission levels matter
Lange, Andreas - 2002
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The Mechanism of Attributing Economic Value to the Natural Environment
Szymanski, Piotr - 2011
The absence of costs of externalities generated in the environment by business operations results in suboptimal resource allocation in Pareto terms as well as in Kaldor-Hicks terms, the destruction of valuable natural areas and the reduction in biodiversity. The article examines the existing...
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Climate Change and Individual Decision Making : An Examination of Knowledge, Risk Perception, Self-Interest and their Interplay
Pongiglione, Francesca - 2014
In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, risk perception, as it relates to an individual’s direct experience of climate change and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175620
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The Decision to Scrap a Wind Turbine : Opportunity Cost, Timing and Policy
Mauritzen, Johannes - 2011
This paper attempts to empirically identify the key factors involved in the decision to scrap a wind turbine using data from Denmark. The importance of the opportunity cost of operating an older wind turbine is shown to be a prominent factor in the decision to scrap. I show the strong effect...
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Dead Battery? Wind Power, The Spot Market, and Hydro Power Interaction in the Nordic Electricity Market
Mauritzen, Johannes - 2011
It is well established within both the economics and power system engineering literature that hydro power can act as a complement to large amounts of intermittent energy. In particular, hydro power can act as a "battery" where large amounts of wind power are installed. This paper attempts to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176826
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Institutional Changes and Discretionary Value for Property Rights in Drylands’ Farming of the Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W; Takeoka, Yoji - 2011
Research on land tenure and use control and the socioeconomic sets of regulations in the agricultural rainfed sub sector of Sudan, come to focus for many reasons. Anthropogenic pressure, expanding animal population and migration led to accelerated impacts on both the ecological systems and land...
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