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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt +6 more
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Effectiveness and welfare impacts of alternative polices to address atmospheric pollution in urban road transport. [PDF]
n this paper we compare the effectiveness and welfare effects of alternative fuel efficiency, environmental and transport policies for a given urban area.
Proost, Stef, Van Dender, Kurt
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An Evaluation of Urban Renewal Policies of Shenzhen, China
, 2017 Urban renewal is a pragmatic approach in the sustainable urban development of urban areas, and has now become an essential strategy for most metropolises in China.
Guiwen Liu +5 more
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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich +4 more
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Cadernos MetrópoleEn las últimas décadas diversas ciudades latinoamericanas han impulsado un conjunto de similares políticas públicas, programas urbanos y otras “recetas” urbanísticas para: confrontar distintas problemáticas urbanas, generar competitividad económica o ...
Victor Delgadillo
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The link between travel Time Budget and Speed: a Key relationship for urban space-time dynamics [PDF]
The relationship between travel time budget (TTB) and speed is central to transport economics and allows us to analyze travel behaviour, urban structure and the transport system.
Iragaël Joly
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Plants at the Pump: Reviewing Biofuels' Impacts and Policy Recommendations [PDF]
, 2008 Illustrates the need for standards and regulations to ensure that biofuels actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Calls for technology-neutral policies, sustainability benefits calculations, certification programs, and rethinking urban ...
Britt Childs Staley, Rob Bradley
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger +8 more
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Urban Sprawl and Sustainable Urban Policies. A Review of the Cases of Lima, Mexico City and Santiago de Chile [PDF]
, 2019 In recent decades, urban processes have experienced deep transformations. One of them has been the growing importance of urban sprawl. This article reviews its main features and the policies related to the paradigm of sustainability in three Latin ...
Asián-Chaves, Rosario +1 more
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Crime prediction through urban metrics and statistical learning
, 2018 Understanding the causes of crime is a longstanding issue in researcher's agenda. While it is a hard task to extract causality from data, several linear models have been proposed to predict crime through the existing correlations between crime and urban ...
Alves, Luiz G A +2 more
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