How do people value environmental resources? To estimate public valuation of natural resources, researchers often conduct surveys that ask people how much they would be willing to pay to preserve or restore threatened natural resources. However, these survey responses often elicit complex affective responses, including negative reactions toward proposed destructive land uses of those resources....

This paper aims at explaining the major drivers of biodiesel market prices by examining agricultural resource and gasoil for automotive fuels in context EU environmental policy. The policy has enhanced production since 2006. Biodiesel are impacted as well rapeseed oil which have fluctuated a lot over last decade. An econometric analysis was performed using monthly data from November 2006 to Jan...

FOREWORD Innovation is the theme of the 2006 Governing Council, in recognition of the importance of innovation to the successful achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and poverty eradication. With the resources from the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID), implementation of the IFAD Initiative for Mainstreaming of Innovation started in February 2005. IFAD'...

during recent years several attempts have been made to incorporate environmental and natural resources degradation into national accounts. gnp as measured by the traditional system of national accounts does not consider environmental degradation caused by inefficient exploitation of natural resources. while the complete omission of environmental impacts is not possible, there could be an optima...

It has been argued that cooperative behavior in the plant-mycorrhizal mutualism resembles trade in a market economy and can be understood using economic tools. Here, we assess the validity of this "biological market" analogy by investigating whether a market mechanism--that is, competition between partners over the price at which they provide goods--could be the outcome of natural selection. Th...

the deficiency of wooden resources and rising demand of wood and paper products caused an increasing interest to the lignocellulose resources in the production of paper and wood composite production, such as bagasse. in khuzestan province for build units of wood and paper industries with the approach of using bagasse as a raw material, 6 main indicator and 35 sub-indicator were prioritization. ...

For the last twenty-five years I have worked on understanding the behavioral underpinnings of environmental policy. My work has explored how institutions, incentives, and nature interact, with the goal of finding tools to help provide environmental protection at lower cost. The research revolves around a Rule of One: one rational person can move society toward predicted market equilibria; one i...