Addressing the wicked problem of water resource management: An ecosystem services approach [PDF]
This paper develops a systematic assessment of the sustainability of ecosystem services provided by rivers impacted by water storage projects. Given the conflicting preferences amongst stakeholders and the incomplete, uncertain and contradictory ...
Cullen, Ross +2 more
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Towards Design For a Nutrient Trading Programme to Improve Water Quality in Lake Rotorua [PDF]
This paper explores how to enhance the role for academic research (natural sciences, economics and their integration; and stakeholder management) within the development and implementation of water quality policy in New Zealand. Our focus is on the use of
Fairman, David, Kerr, Suzi, Lauder, Glen
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Endogenous Discounting and Climate Policy [PDF]
Under risk of abrupt climate change, the occurrence hazard is added to the social discount rate. As a result, the social discount rate (i) increases and (ii) turns endogenous to the global warming policy.
Tsur, Yacov, Zemel, Amos
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Safety preparedness in arab public schools. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Al-Ansary NF +2 more
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Empirical validity of the evaluation of public policies: models of evaluation and quality of evidence [PDF]
There is a wide range of evaluation methods. On the basis of which criteria should one method be chosen? On what scientific foundations are the results of numerous evaluations based? How can reliability and empirical validity be tested?
Baudry, Jacques +3 more
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Le palmier à huile : plantation, fonctionnement et production. fiche n° 01.02.Q58
Les palmiers, ou Arecaceae, sont une famille de plantes monocotylédones monocaules, semblables à des arbres. Ils jouent un rôle considérable en agriculture et dans la biodiversité au sens large, en particulier sous les tropiques. Le palmier à huile africain, originaire d'Afrique de l'Ouest, est sans doute, par son impact sur la production agricole, l ...
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The AKT modulator A-443654 reduces α-synuclein expression and normalizes ER stress and autophagy. [PDF]
J Biol Chem, 2021 Gandelman M +16 more
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What Explains the Incidence of the Use of a Common Sediment Control on Lots with Houses Under Construction? [PDF]
To analyze compliance with one aspect of the regulation of stormwater discharge, we estimate a random-utility model of the probability that a builder uses a silt fence to control sediments on a lot with a house under construction in an urbanizing county ...
Campbell, Wallace A. +4 more
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Climate Change and Texas Water Planning: an Economic Analysis of Inter-basin Water Transfers [PDF]
Panel models with random effects are used to estimate how climate influences in-stream surface water supply, municipal water demand, crop yields and irrigation water use.
Cai, Yongxia, McCarl, Bruce A.
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Bankruptcy Risk and Imperfectly Enforced Emissions Taxes [PDF]
Under favorable but reasonable conditions, an imperfectly enforced emissions tax produces the efficient allocation of individual emissions control; aggregate emissions are independent of whether enforcement of the tax is sufficient to induce the full ...
John K. Stranlund, Wei Zhang
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