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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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Poverty, environment and natural resource use: introduction to the special issue [PDF]
, 2008 A growing population and growing per capita consumption threaten the environment and the natural resource base. Where natural resources are at risk, the livelihoods of many are at risk as well.
Ierland, E.C., van, Weikard, H.P.
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Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth [PDF]
, 1995 One of the surprising features of modern economic growth is that economies with abundant natural resources have tended to grow less rapidly than natural-resource-scarce economies. In this paper we show that economies with a high ratio of natural resource exports to GDP in 1971 (the base year) tended have low growth rates during the subsequent period ...
Sachs, Jeffrey D., Warner, Andrew M.
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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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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 This manuscript uses seminal models in fisheries economics to assess the ecosystem effects of policy focused on sustainable management of a single fish stock.
Katherine Lee +2 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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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
Haftu Etsay +2 more
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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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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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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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