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Resources, 2019 The coastal zone of Louisiana contains more than 3 million wetland acres and has the highest acreage of salt marsh of any state. However, Louisiana accounts for 80 percent of the nation’s coastal land loss.
Hua Wang, Walter Keithly, Rex Caffey
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Ecological Processes, 2019 Background Sustainable land management is considered as one of the useful approaches to combat the threat of various forms of land degradation in Ethiopia. Despite this, there is scant information regarding households’ decision towards the implementation
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Sustainable Environment, 2023 Communal land-based resources are an essential source of livelihood in the rural economy of Ethiopia. In particular, the dependence of the landless people on the direct use of communal natural resources for their livelihoods jeopardizes both the ...
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The International Economics of Natural Resources and Growth [PDF]
Minerals & Energy - Raw Materials Report, 2007 This article is in three parts. First, it briefly describes the contribution of natural resources to economic growth around the world, pondering the question whether an abundance of natural resources is a blessing or a curse. Secondly, an attempt is made to provide a glimpse of recent empirical evidence that can be brought to bear on this question ...
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The Natural Capital Indicator Framework (NCIF): A framework of indicators for national natural capital reporting [PDF]
, 2020 It is now widely recognised that components of the environment play the role of economic assets, termed natural capital, that are a foundation of social and economic development. National governments monitor the state and trends of natural capital through a range of activities including natural capital accounting, national ecosystem assessments ...
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A Simple Measure of Economic Complexity [PDF]
Volume 52, Issue 7, September 2023, 104793, 2016 Contrary to conventional economic growth theory, which reduces a country's output to one aggregate variable (GDP), product diversity is central to economic development, as recent 'economic complexity' research suggests. A country's product diversity reflects its diversity of knowhow or 'capabilities'. Researchers proposed the Economic Complexity Index (
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Export complexity, industrial complexity and regional economic growth in Brazil [PDF]
, 2023 Research on productive structures has shown that economic complexity conditions economic growth. However, little is known about which type of complexity, e.g., export or industrial complexity, matters more for regional economic growth in a large emerging country like Brazil.
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Natural Resources and Economic Outcomes [PDF]
, 2011 Why do some countries grow while others do not? This question is one of the most important in economics. Literally thousands of papers have been published on the topic. And it is of enormous policy significance, because the current understanding of the answer to this question affects the behavior of a variety of organizations including the World Bank ...
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Analysis of households food insecurity and its coping mechanisms in Western Ethiopia
Agricultural and Food Economics, 2019 This study analyzed households’ food insecurity and its determinants along with the coping mechanisms opted against food insecurity and shortage in Assosa zone, western Ethiopia.
Seid Sani, Biruk Kemaw
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Bridging the Gap Between Economics and Ecology
Ecology and Society, 1998 Economics and ecology are often presented as opposing disciplines. Both fields have strengths and weaknesses. A new transdisciplinary field, ecological economics, attempts to bring together the strengths of both disciplines with a vision for a ...
Larry Leefers, Gem Castillo
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