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Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2022 There has to date been limited research on the economic valuation of local outdoor recreational services to inform policy and practice. This study attempts to fill this gap by estimating the annual recreational value of Tabor Mountain Recreational Park ...
Meselu Tegenie Mellaku +4 more
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Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2023 Climate change undeniably impacts agriculture and natural resources, enterprises and markets. For informed decision making, there is a need for information on climate change adaptation possibilities and mitigation alternatives.
Chengcheng J. Fei, B. McCarl
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The effects of adaptation to climate change on income of households in rural Ethiopia
Pastoralism, 2017 Climate change is one of the most serious impediments to agricultural prosperity in Ethiopia, especially where livestock is concerned. In particular, rural farming communities in the drylands of the Afar region are severely exposed to the impacts of ...
Melaku Berhe +6 more
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Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2023 Due to its significance in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), food security has gained considerable attention from governments and policymakers worldwide.
Behnaz Saboori +2 more
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A New Perspective on the Natural Resource Curse
World, 2023 Early papers found empirical support for a natural resource curse—the notion that exporting natural resources is detrimental to economic growth. Later papers, using reportedly improved econometric models and data, largely reversed these early findings by
Thomas C. Kinnaman
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Port Development and the Environment: External Costs from Dredge Disposal and Air Pollution [PDF]
Journal of International Logistics and Trade, 2004 This paper analyzes two external costs often associated with port development, cost to fisheries from marine dredge disposal and damages from air pollution, using estimates of development and operation for a proposed (but since cancelled) container port ...
Thomas Grigalunas +4 more
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Remittances, natural resource rent and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2021 Despite the established link between oil rent fluctuations and remittances received, its plausible joint effect on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains unexplored.
P. Ofori, D. Grechyna
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Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 This paper explores whether natural resource abundance leads, other things equal, to slower growth rates. We distinguish between natural resource dependence (RD) and the natural resource endowment (RE). We estimate three models, using World Bank data on national capital stocks.
Ding, N, Field, BC
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Revisiting the natural resource curse: A cross-country growth study
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2021 This paper revisits the original natural resource curse study conducted by Sachs and Warner to investigate the relationship between natural resource dependence and per capita growth in recent data consisting of 68 developing countries that includes 14 ...
K. Saeed
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Heliyon, 2022 Soil fertility is the ability of the soil to provide favorable chemical, physical and biological characteristics to sustain plant growth. Its physicochemical properties are greatly influenced by altitude and farmer wealth status.
Abiyot Mebrate +3 more
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