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Sell the oil deposits!: A financial proposal to keep the oil underground in the Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

Bucaram, Santiago; Fernandez, Mario Andrés; Grijalva, Diego - 2016

The Yasuni National Park is a protected area located in the Amazon region of Ecuador and is recognized as one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. In recent years the park has received much attention due to the media exposure of the Yasuni-ITT Initiative. This Initiative proposed a...

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Estimating the value of crop diversity conservation services provided by the Czech National Programme for Agrobiodiversity

Tyack, Nicholas; Scasny, Milan - 2018

We estimate the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for conserving crop varieties for ten years in the Czech Republic using a double-bounded dichotomous choice model to analyze data collected with an online contingent valuation survey administered to a main country-wide sample of 1037 respondents and a...

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Estimating the social value of specific crop diversity conservation plans: Do Czechs care more about conserving hop, wine or fruit tree varieties?

Tyack, Nicholas; Scasny, Milan - 2020

We use a discrete choice experiment to elicit the preferences of Czech adults ages 18 to 69 (n=805) for the conservation of wine, hop, and fruit tree varieties. In addition, we also elicit the preferences of a smaller sub-sample consisting solely of respondents from South Moravia (n=463), an...

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Organic cocoa farmer's strategies and sustainability

Prazeres, Ibrahim; Lucas, Maria Raquel David Pereira Ventura - In: Bio-based and Applied Economics (BAE) 12 (2023) 1, pp. 37-52

São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) is one of the world's smallest organic cocoa exporting countries, whose product has a positive socio-cultural and economic impact. Small producers who ensure it, are associated into two cooperatives that experience several difficulties and dilemmas including...

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Soil aridification, precipitations, and infant health: Evidence from Africa

Lunghi, Jacopo; Malpede, Maurizio; Percoco, Marco - 2023

underweight at birth. In addition, we show how the aridity measure in this study reduces the effect of rainfall on child wellbeing …

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Nowcasting economic growth in India: The role of rainfall

Iyer, Tara; Gupta, Abhijit Sen - 2019

economic activity. There are several interesting results in the study. A key finding is that rainfall has high predictive …

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The Impact of Changing Climate on Children's Nutritional Status in Bangladesh

Hanifi, S.M. Manzoor Ahmed; Menon, Nidhiya; Quisumbing, … - 2021

varying rainfall jointly. Leveraging a saturated fixed-effects model that controls for annual trends and location …-specific seasonality, and that allows the impacts of temperature to vary non-parametrically while rainfall and humidity have flexible non … also matters. Possible explanations for our findings include consequences of varying heat, humidity, and rainfall on the …

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Periurban Agriculture: do the Current EU Agri-environmental Policy Programmes Fit with it?

Arata, Linda; Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano; … - 2018

In the European Union (EU) periurban agriculture is under the same agri-environmental policy regime designed for general agriculture. We argue that the specific needs of periurban agriculture may justify ad hoc agri-environmental policy measures. We present results from a Choice Experiment (CE)...

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Assessment of water footprint profiles: Analysis of the quinoa life cycle in Bolivia$gby: Javier Aliaga Lordemann, Alejandro Capriles, Nayra Antezana

Aliaga Lordemann, Javier; Capriles, Alejandro; … - 2024

This study analyzes the water footprint profiles of quinoa production in Bolivia, an emblematic crop that faces significant challenges in terms of yield and sustainability. The Total Water Footprint (WH) of quinoa estimated for the Southern Altiplano region of Bolivia is approximately 1,728...

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Climate action response plans in firms: Understanding the characteristics of firms planning for a more sustainable future

Lenihan, Helena; Perez-Alaniz, Mauricio; Rammer, Christian - 2024

Firm-level Climate Action Response Plans (CARPs) are strategic plans comprising firms' climate change mitigation and adaptation commitments. Given the importance of CARPs for meeting climate change targets, encouraging firms to develop CARPs is paramount. When designing evidence-based approaches...

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