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Economic Experiments and Environmental Policy: A Review [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
Abstract: We summarize and review the literature on two types of economic experiments. First we discuss the use of experimental laboratories to testbed market solutions to issues in environmental policy. We concentrate on experiments with one and two-sided markets, and applications in the domain of water allocation, food safety, and tradable permit ...
Noussair, C.N., van Soest, D.P.
openaire   +5 more sources

Practitioners’ perspectives on improving ready-to-eat food vending in urban Nigeria: a practice-based visioning and back-casting approach

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
In many parts of the world, food consumption is shifting from mostly home-based to out-of-home due to transforming of everyday lives as a result of urban development and changing infrastructure.
Kehinde Paul Adeosun   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Don't throw efficiency out with the bathwater: A reply to Jeffery and Verheijen (2020) [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironmental Science and Policy 122 (2021) 72-74, 2021
In this paper, I reply to the recent article by Jeffery and Verheijen (2020) 'A new soil health policy paradigm: Pay for practice not performance!'. While expressing support for their call for a more pronounced role of soil protection in agri-environmental policy, I critically discuss the two main elements of their specific proposal: its emphasis of ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Effects of Relative Pricing of Alternative Cooking Energy Sources on Their Substitution: A Comparative Analysis of Rural and Urban Households of Enugu State, Nigeria

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Extension, 2020
In recent years, much attention has been directed to finding solutions to the ongoing increase in the use of unclean cooking energy sources, which is especially the case among households in the developing nations.
Anthony NwaJesus Onyekuru   +2 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Ecological niche models of biotic interactions predict increasing pest risk to olive cultivars with changing climate

open access: yesEcosphere, 2021
Simple, single‐species approaches in distributional ecology leave open questions of possible roles of biotic interactions. We sought to understand impacts of climate change on current and future potential distributions of Olea europaea sensu lato (host ...
Uzma Ashraf   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementing result-based agri-environmental payments by means of modelling [PDF]

open access: yesPayments by modelled results: a novel design for agri-environmental schemes. Land Use Policy 102: 105230 (2017), 2019
From a theoretical point of view, result-based agri-environmental payments are clearly preferable to action-based payments. However, they suffer from two major practical disadvantages: costs of measuring the results and payment uncertainty for the participating farmers. In this paper, we propose an alternative design to overcome these two disadvantages
arxiv   +1 more source

Analysing scenarios for energy emissions reduction in South Africa

open access: yesJournal of Energy in Southern Africa, 2017
Global environmental pressure dictates that South Africa reduces its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while national objectives focus on economic development.
S Moodley, RM Mabugu, R Hassan
doaj   +1 more source

The Future of Fishing for Fun: The Economics and Sustainable Management of Recreational Fisheries

open access: yesReview of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2022
The management of recreational fisheries has received relatively little research attention from economists. Nevertheless, recreational fisheries generate substantial economic benefits and ecological impacts in many freshwater and marine systems, although
J. Abbott   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An insurance fund as a tool for preserving and accruing the innovative and environmental potentials of economic systems [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
Considering the 2030 Russian Federation environmental policy and the Environmental Safety Strategy for the period until 2025, which make us re-evaluate the role of insurance as a whole, expanding it to include environmental insurance and environmental ...
Frolova Veronika, Shamina Lubov
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Economics and Uncertainty: Review and a Machine Learning Outlook [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
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.
arxiv   +1 more source

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