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The evaluation of long-term e ects of climate change in cost-bene t analysis has a long tradition in environmental economics. Since the publication of the Stern Review in 2006 the debate about the "appropriate" discounting of future welfare and utility levels was revived and the most renowned scholars of the profession participated in this debate. In two recent contributions in Environmental an...

This paper offers a definition of sustainable development from an ecological economics perspective. For this, it begins with a historical analysis of the sustainable development concept from its origins as eco-development to its present formulation as green economy. it follows an assessment of the weak sustainability concept premises which allows for the neoclassical environmental economics not...

Motivated by the 2006 report of a Work Group appointed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), this paper examines the present state of meta-analysis in environmental economics and offers recommendations for its future use. To this end we summarize and assess 130 meta-analyses from 115 published and unpublished studies, covering seventeen topical categories in environmental and resource e...

This paper explores the gap between the principles of take-back legislation and their implementation. The discussion is based on my experience with take-back legislation implementations in Europe and in the United States, as well as my research exploring the underlying economics of take-back systems on the ground. I argue that the transposition of legislative principles into working systems can...

Laser scanning, including both the airborne and terrestrial laser scanning, is one of the most interesting and potential 3D data acquisition and monitoring techniques, which can support future studies of real estate and environmental economic. Vast data sets, even covering whole countries, challenge existing manners of proceeding. Existing laser data can be used for multidisciplinary tasks, suc...

Increasing the Role of Economics in Environmental Research (or Moving beyond the Mindset That Economics = Accounting) Gregory W. Characklis,* Peter Adriaens, John B. Braden, Jennifer Davis, Bruce Hamilton, Joseph B. Hughes, Mitchell J. Small, and John Wolfe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Unive...

AIM To investigate how students in Croatia perceive causes of poverty and to examine the differences in attributions of poverty between students of social work, economics, and agriculture. METHODS The study included 365 participants, students of social work (n=143), economics (n=137), and agriculture (n=82). We used the newly developed Attribution of Poverty Scale, consisting of 4 factors, as...