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The new approach to wilderness preservation through benefit-cost analysis
(Elsevier, 1982-03)
Over the last 15 years, economists of Resources for the Future led by John Krutilla have been developing a new approach to wilderness preservation. This paper offers a concise exposition of their approach and adds a few ...
Discovery of the Northeast Passage: the voyage of the VEGA, 1878–1879
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-07)
Incentivizing sustainable development: The impact of a recent policy reform on electricity production efficiency in China
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Springer, 2019-07)
China’s rapid economic growth has tremendously accelerated its energy use, calling for a more sustainable supply of scarce and nonrenewable energy. Using a firm‐level dataset of 30 major Chinese electricity utilities from ...
An ecologically-based approach to the design of intercrop agroecosystems: An intercropping system of soybeans and tomatoes in Southern Michigan
(Elsevier, 1984-10)
A model is developed in which the elementary structure of plant competision is translated into the classical yield-density equation. Using the same reasoning, an interspecific form of the model is formulated to predict ...
Towards a new index for environmental sustainability based on a DALY weighting approach
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-07)
Composite indicators are synthetic indices that are used to rank country performances in specific policy areas. Many do, however, suffer from methodological difficulties. Specific difficulties linked to indices for ...
Simulation of the potential for life history components to regulate walleye population size
(Elsevier, 1989-02)
A bioenergetic life history simulation model was applied to identify components of the walleye (Stezostedion vitrium) life history that had a potential for population regulation. The model combined a predator-prey model, ...
Guilty until Proven Innocent-Regulation with Costly and Limited Enforcement
(Elsevier, 1994-09)
We consider optimal regulations for a polluting firm when regulators cannot observe emission control costs and can only observe emissions via costly monitoring. Fines (or subsidies) for enforcing compliance are also limited. ...
Contaminant uptake by fish and the potential for transfer to humans modelled over time
(Elsevier, 1986-07)
A model is developed that enables coupling of contaminant uptake with the growth dynamics of fish, exploitation, and transfer and fate. Contaminant concentration in fish is a function of the properties of the contaminant, ...
The grass-roots modernization in a Japanese Village
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1980-05)
The critical role played by national or central direction in Japan's modernization is well recognized, but the role of rural Japan in the nation's modernizing process has not been adequately understood. Ways of life in ...
An epidemiological model of the corn stunt system in Central America
(Elsevier, 1990)
There is increasing appreciation on the part of ecologists of the crucial role that pathogens may play in the structure of plant populations and communities. This study used classic equations of epidemiology to analyze ...