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Off-grid renewable energy as a chance for sustainable development of the South of Russia
Ratner, Svetlana - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577916
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Economic approach to nature conservation : land use change
Ramos, Pedro - 2015
The relationship between land use and biodiversity is important to understand the decision support systems in order to attain sustainability. Nowadays, land use and biodiversity management is focused on protected areas, discarding other habitats, tending to favor exclusive property rights over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475811
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Opportunity cost of environmental preservation : the case of the Brazilian Legal Amazon
Chagas, André Luis Squarize; Andrade, Luiza Cardoso de - 2013
Currently, the region named Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) represents the agricultural frontier of Brazil, and it concentrates the deforestation processes, so-called arc of deforestation. This region covers the total area of Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, and Tocantins, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547167
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Smart technologies applied to the energy sector : renewable energy expansion strengthened by digital communications and distributed ledger technologies?
Serrano Calle, Silvia; Delarue, Erik - 2018
The development of variable renewable energy (VRE) and their massive installation are some of the challenges that the economies of a large part of the world will have to face in the coming years to help ensure a reasonable sustainability of the planet. On the other hand, the advances that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990796
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The name says it all : multigenerational social mobility in Switzerland, 1550-2019
Häner, Melanie; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2021
Social mobility is a key element of meritocratic societies. We analyze multigenerational social mobility with a hand-collected yearly Swiss dataset from 1550 to 2019. With our surname-based approach, we measure the Swiss society's overall permeability over more than 450 years. Furthermore, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013328046
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Energy and emissions conflicts in urban areas
Conde, Touria Abdelkader B. - 2014
The main aim of this paper is to observe the environmental behaviour in some cities of the word, by analyzing for each city the trends of several energy and emissions indicators that appear as explanatory variables in both energy and labour average productivity equations. At the same time we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486780
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Renewable energy and negative externalities : the effect of wind turbines on house prices
Droes, Martijn I.; Koster, Hans - 2014 - This version: 30 June 2014
SUMMARY - In many countries, wind turbines are constructed as part of a strategy to reduce fossil fuel dependence. In this paper, we measure the external effect of wind turbines on the transaction prices of nearby properties. Using a unique transaction price dataset covering the period 1985-2011...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486973
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Shared capacity and levelized cost with application to power-to-gas technology
Glenk, Gunther - 2019
The calculation of unit cost that can be used for estimating capacity investment decisions is frequently ambiguous due to the many ways to apportion applicable cash ows connected to the delivery of products. This paper studies the identification of relevant unit cost when productive capacity is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236460
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The causal effect of religious and environmental identity on green preferences : a combined priming and stated choice experiment
Engler, Daniel; Groh, Elke D.; Ziegler, Andreas - 2019 - Preliminary version
Using a stated choice experiment, we find that a prime that makes environmental identity salient makes people behave greener, whereas it does not if it makes religious identity salient. Further-more, we discover non-linear priming effects for environmental identity, which means that rais-ing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012309732
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Born in the land of milk and honey : the impact of economic growth on individual wealth accumulation
Bartels, Charlotte; König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2021
's birth place is an important determinant for wealth in adulthood. We exploit a new dataset that oversamples wealthy … individuals in Germany and includes information on birth district, current residence, individual wealth, gifts and inheritances … and parental background. To identify the effect of economic growth on children's wealth we match the population of heirs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330661