The natural environment is central to human well-being through its role in ecosystem service (ES) provision. Managing ES often requires coordination across international borders. Although this may deliver greater conservation gains than countries acting alone, we do not know whether the public supports such an international approach. Using the same questionnaire in three countries, we quantifie...

It has become increasingly difficult to distinguish public health (and public health ethics) from tangentially related fields like social work. I argue that we should reclaim the more traditional conception of public health as the provision of health-related public goods. The public goods account has the advantage of establishing a relatively clear and distinctive mission for public health. It ...

In the modern world, international commerce provides more links between the people of different nations than all the political, religious, and humanitarian delegations combined. Every day, millions of goods are produced, shipped, bought, and sold by over seven billion people around the world. People pay little attention to where these goods come from. Instead, they simply expect them to appear ...

E-businesses are searching for ways to provide both cost effective and secure communication services. Internet, which is the primary medium for conducting e-business, is by its nature, an open, heterogeneous, non secure medium. Reports show that the ellipsis of trust in transaction security is the major reason why consumers are dubious to shop online and in expansion, unwilling to adopt an elec...

Understanding the value that individuals assign to the protection of their personal data is of great importance for business, law, and public policy. We use a field experiment informed by behavioral economics and decision research to investigate individual privacy valuations and find evidence of endowment and order effects. Individuals assigned markedly different values to the privacy of their ...

INTRODUCTION Diabetes Prevention Programs (DPPs) have shown that healthy eating and moderate physical activity are effective ways of delaying and preventing type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance. We assessed willingness to pay for DPPs from the perspective of potential recipients and the cost of providing these programs from the perspective of community health centers and lo...

The questions of how important a learner’s ‘learning style’ is for the learning outcome needs to be investigated for learning environments: (1) for a didactically flexible design and possibly for an adaptation to the individual learner and (2) for a differential evaluation of learning systems. Many dichotomies of learning styles have been investigated empirically. For several reasons, the impli...