'Soft' privatization preferred for Natural Resources Institute

Tourism And Natural Resources

The Future of the Tropical Resources Institute

The current state and future of the Tropical Resources Institute (TRI) in our School and University is enviable in this era of academic retrenchment and uncertainty. Endowment now provides funds for internships, the Directorship, and related scholarships. We have an excellent leader; Dr. Florencia Montagnini, John M. Musser Director of the Tropical Resources Institute, is building a dynamic pro...

The Impact of Natural Resources on Innovation

N owadays, innovation considered as the most important factor, which can affect economic growth extraordinary. Therefore, investigating the effect of variables affecting innovation has priority. In this study, we try to investigate 1) the natural resource curse hypothesis and 2) the effect of institutional quality on the way in which natural resources affects innovation. To investiga...

Ethics and Participation in Natural Resources Protection

Background: Public participation in decisions regarding natural resources is the easiest way to ‎preserve these resources. It seems that having human of conservation ethics of natural resources, ‎has affect on their participation in the preservation of natural resources. This survey research was ‎done to investigate the relationship between conservation ethics of natural resources and ‎particip...

Allocation of natural resources.

(31 Aug., p. 819) argue that, because current pricing practices do not internalize environmental costs, some mechanism other than the market is needed to protect environmental values. They propose a system of environmental credits-natural resource units (NRU's)-to be allocated to individuals and industrial organizations. Although their system is ingenious, I offer the following objections. 1) T...