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The spatial distribution of agro-environmental policy benefits has important implications for the efficient allocation of management effort. The practical convenience of relying on sample mean values of individual benefits for aggregation can come at the cost of biased aggregate estimates. The...
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Forest land use is often associated with the protection of water resources from contamination and the reduced cost of drinking water supply. This study attempted to measure the value of the forest on the quality of water resources from a contingent market, namely drinking water supply, by...
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The environmental protection system of West-Pomerania Region (North-western Voivodeship of Poland) is presented. Especially focused on water resources management and protection. The features of strategy of Voivodship development were specified. The aims of strategy are intented to reach...
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International trade agreements and the new EU CAP targets require the definition of a new type of subsidy, depending on the non-market functions provided by production activities. The aim of the research project reported in this paper is to find a model to reward multifunctionality of...
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Water availability in semiarid regions usually exhibits patterns of extreme variability. Even in intensively controlled basins, some users are subject to low levels of water reliability, and more vulnerable to periods of extreme scarcity. To reduce their risk exposure more flexible instruments,...
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Scientific evidence clearly indicates that consumption of raw milk carries substantial disease-inducing health risks …
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of food quality and prices, and to assess the potential impacts of such policies from a public health point of view. We … information policy may simultaneously provide health benefits to the population as a whole but worsen the health of consumers that … increase total health benefits without increasing health disparities between consumers. An increase in the tax level has two …
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related health problems caused, among others, by obesity, nutritional labelling has been regarded as an important topic mainly …
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In this paper, we describe individual food consumption decisions as driven by a utility effect and a food environment effect. To outline the utility effect, we first develop a new theoretical model of individual food consumption. Next, we introduce the food environment effect by showing how the...
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In modern societies consumers often face a trade-off between health and taste, the latter which encourages consumption … of fatty, salty and sweet foods, whereas health awareness discourages consumption of the same food. The resulting diet …, often rich in calories, sweeteners and fat constitutes a threat to public health as poor nutrition has been linked to …
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