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Are we measuring natural resource wealth correctly? A reconceptualization of natural resource value in the era of climate change

Lebdioui, Amir - 2021

Underlying the management of revenues from natural resource extraction is a set of assumptions about how abundant and how valuable these resources are. Nevertheless, existing approaches to measuring the value of extractive resources are seriously flawed. This paper proposes two avenues for...

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Internalizing Global Externalities from Biodiversity: Protected Areas and Multilateral Mechanisms of Transfer

Deke, Oliver - 2004

Biodiversity can sometimes only be preserved if natural habitats are excluded from human uses. Such protection measures generate positive externalities at the global scale. This holds especially for protection in developing countries that host great parts of global biodiversity. For...

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Geographical Constraints to Growth in Bolivia

Andersen, Lykke E.; Nina, Osvaldo - 2007

This paper seeks to test to which extent geographical constraints can be blamed for Bolivia s poor growth performance … growth rates over time in Bolivia, there are at least four factors that contribute to changing the importance of those … products. The results show that Bolivia is indeed adjusting in all 4 dimensions in order to reduce the importance of …

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From planetary emergency to regenerative economies - Accounting for nature in measures of sustainable development

Stoever, Jana; Reichel, Andre - 2022

paper discusses how these changes affect our understanding of (economic) progress and sustainable development. In doing so …", secondly, the visualization of this reality in the measurement of sustainable development, taking into account the specific … characteristics of the environment/nature, and thirdly, the question of whether a concept that maps "regenerative development" could …

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Determining the Environmental Effects of Indirect Subsidies

van Beers, Cees; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M.; de Moor, … - 2004

Up to now a clear theoretical and methodological framework for economic-environmental analysis of environmentally damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at achieving a certain (often non-environmental) goal that...

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Optimal control theory with applications to resource and environmental economics

Hoel, Michael - 2016

This note gives a brief, non-rigorous sketch of basic optimal control theory, which is a useful tool in several simple economic problems,such as those in resource and environmental economics. While the mathematical analysis in the note is self-contained, there is not much explanation and...

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Twenty key questions in environmental and resource economics

Bretschger, Lucas; Pittel, Karen - 2019

and future research supports development of novel theories, empirical applications, and appropriate policy designs. It … development of academic work in the field. …

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Integrating the value of natural capital in evidence-based policy making

Banerjee, Onil; Vargas, Renato; Cicowiez, Martín - 2020

This paper describes how Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) can be integrated into economy wide analytical frameworks to enhance evidence based decision making. Examples from applications of the Integrated Environmental Economic Modelling (IEEM) Platform show how explicitly accounting for the...

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From economic general equilibrium to ecological system services for nature conservation and management: a methodological analysis and an empirical study based on 30 Italian industries

Zagonari, Fabio - 2015

In this paper, I develop an operational methodology to consistently compare alternative sustainability paradigms (weak sustainability [WS], strong sustainability [SS], a-growth [AG], and de-growth [DG]) and different assessment approaches (life-cycle assessment [LCA], cost-benefit analysis...

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An empirical study of the relationships between CO₂ emissions, economic growth and openness

Choi, Eunho; Heshmati, Almes; Cho, Yongsung - 2010

development stages from industrialized to newly industrialized and emerging market economies. The environmental consequences …

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