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Land Tenure, Incentives and the Choice of Techniques: Evidence from Nicaragua.
Bandiera, Oriana - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
The choice of cultivation techniques is a key determinant of agricultural productivityand has important consequences for income growth and poverty reductionin developing countries. Using household data from Nicaragua this papershows that the choice of cultivation techniques depends on farmers’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005871002
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Is a Sustainable Land-Use Policy in Germany Possible?
Geletneky, Beate; Jöst, Frank; Klauer, Bernd; … - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und …; … - 2009
Land is an essential but limited natural resource. We employ the concept of stocks to analysedriving forces for land-use conversion and to assess, whether the German political “30-hectares-goal” is feasible given the current institutional setting. In this paper major drivingforces for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249018
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Efficiency of Public Goods Provision in Space
Warziniack, Travis - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und …
This article incorporates a political decision process into an urban land use model topredict the likely location of a public good. It fills an important gap in the literature bymodeling the endogenous location of open space. The article compares open spacedecisions made under a majority-rules...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009262193
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Leitbild-AssessmentNormative Orientierungen der Wald- und Landnutzung
Marwede, Max; Erdmann, Lorenz; Behrendt, Siegfried - Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung … - 2008
Das gesamte Modul soll normative und ethische Fragen aufzeigen, die sich bezüglich der zukünftigenWaldnutzung stellen. Es macht Interessen, Normen und Wertvorstellungen transparent.Beide Papiere dienen der Diskussionsphase des Projekts als Grundlage. Sie sollen aufgrundihrer bewusst...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865466
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Are current levels of air pollution in England too high?The impact of pollution on population mortality
Janke, Katharina; Propper, Carol; Henderson, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
We examine the relationship between common sources of airborne pollution and population mortality in present day … level for the period 1998 to 2004 to examine whether current levels of airborne pollution, as measured by annual mean … known to be exacerbated by air pollution. We exploit the panel nature of our data to control for any unobserved time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353982
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Konferenz Sustainability 21 : Helsinki, 5. und 6. November 1999 ; Europäisches Beratendes Forum für Umwelt und nachhaltige Entwicklung
Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Umwelt - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635818
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Das Europäische Beratende Forum für Umwelt und Nachhaltige Entwicklung : Tätigkeitsbericht und Selbstbewertung ; 1997 - 2001
Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Umwelt; … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635819
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Climate change: the cost of inaction and the cost of adaptation
Watkiss, Paul - Europäische Umweltagentur - 2007
Significant changes in climate are already visible globally, and are expected to become more pronounced in the future. These will lead to wide ranging impacts on the natural and man-made environment across different sectors and regions, which in turn will lead to economic costs. These economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635847
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Best LIFE-Environment Projects 2004-2005
Stoneman, Catherine (contributor);  … - 2005
EU Member States represented on the LIFE Committee and the European Commission’s LIFE Unit have announced the Best LIFE-Environment Projects 2004-2005. The result of the selection, as approved by the LIFE Committee on 28 July 2005, is the 24 projects featured in this publication.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635848
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Annual report 2007 and Environmental statement 2008
Europäische Umweltagentur - 2008
The EEA continued to deliver a major contribution to the European Community's Sixth Environment Action Programme (and its mid-term review) in 2007, at the same time as developing further its information systems and networks, providing support to the European Parliament and meetings of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635850