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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics [PDF]
Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and environmental resources; economic and evolutionary progress; and ...
C J M Jeroen, van den J.C.J.M. Bergh
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Can autonomy make bicycle-sharing systems more sustainable? Environmental impact analysis of an emerging mobility technology [PDF]
Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems (BSS), but the corresponding environmental implications remain unresearched. Conducting environmental impact assessments at an early technological stage is critical to influencing the design and, ultimately, environmental impacts of a system.
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Physical Input-Output Table [PDF]
In physical input-output tables (PIOTS), the flows of products, instead of being expressed in monetary terms, are represented by physical measures (weight, time).
Firooz Tofigh
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Directly Valuing Animal Welfare in (Environmental) Economics
Research in economics is anthropocentric. It only cares about the welfare of humans, and usually does not concern itself with animals. When it does, animals are treated as resources, biodiversity, or food.
A. Carlier, Nicolas Treich
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The basic input-output model is first extended by differentiating industry outputs by region. The consequent interregional input-output matrix accounts for pollution footprints of final consumption, possibly even including household income effects, which further boost output and pollution.
Swales, Kim, Turner, Karen
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Social Dilemmas in Environmental Economics and Policy Considerations: A Review
Many crucial environmental issues lead to social dilemmas, in which the personally optimal solution, and the socially optimal solution diverge. Finding a solution to this dilemma is extremely important to allow a good and sustainable management of many ...
Nicola Cerutti
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Environmental Economics and Uncertainty: Review and a Machine Learning Outlook [PDF]
Economic assessment in environmental science concerns the measurement or valuation of environmental impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. Integrated assessment modeling is a unifying framework of environmental economics, which attempts to combine key elements of physical, ecological, and socioeconomic systems.
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Priming prosocial behavior and expectations in response to the Covid-19 pandemic -- Evidence from an online experiment [PDF]
This paper studies whether and how differently projected information about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic affects individuals' prosocial behavior and expectations on future outcomes. We conducted an online experiment with British participants (N=961) when the UK introduced its first lockdown and the outbreak was on its growing stage.
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Contemporary Environmental Economics [PDF]
The paper is dealing with basic themes, approaches, problems and tasks of the environmental economics as a discipline. At the present time, a primary aim seems to be to develop and to apply the economic principles to the field of protection and creation ...
Jozef Čech
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There are different shades of green: heterogeneous environmental innovations and their effects on firm performance [PDF]
Using a firm-level dataset from the Spanish Technological Innovation Panel (2003-2016), this study explores the characteristics of environmentally innovative firms and quantifies the effects of pursuing different types of environmental innovation strategies (resource-saving, pollution-reducing, and regulation-driven innovations) on sales, employment ...
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