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Conservation Through Collusion : Antitrust as an Obstacle to Marine Resource Conservation

Adler, Jonathan H. - 2013

This article explores the tension between antitrust principles and conservation of the marine commons. Part I provides an overview of fishery conservation efforts in theory and practice. As a common pool resource, marine fisheries will fall prey to the "tragedy of the commons" unless consumption...

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Environmental Morale and Motivation

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2014

This chapter discusses the role of environmental morale and environmental motivation in individual behavior from the point of view of economics and psychology. It deals with the fundamental public good problem, and presents empirical (laboratory and field) evidence on how the cooperation problem...

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Environmental awareness of farmers vs. agricultural sustainability

Śmiglak-Krajewska, Magdalena; Wojciechowska-Solis, Julia - In: European research studies 24 (2021) 1, pp. 161-172

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The Determinants of Individuals' Attitudes Towards Preventing Environmental Damage

Torgler, Benno; Garcia-Valiñas, Maria Angeles - 2013

This paper investigates empirically the determinants of individuals' attitudes towards preventing environmental damage in Spain using data from the World Values Survey and European Values Survey for the periods 1990, 1995 and 1999/2000. Compared to many previous studies, we present a richer set...

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Weather shocks and English wheat yields, 1690-1871

Brunt, Liam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We estimate a time series model of weather shocks on English wheat yields for the early nineteenth century and use it to predict weather effects on yield levels from 1697 to 1871. This reveals that yields in the 1690s were depressed by unusually poor weather; and those in the late 1850s were...

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From Foraging to Agriculture

Marceau, Nicolas; Myers, Gordon M. - Centre de Recherche sur l'Emploi et les Fluctuations … - 2000

We consider a world in which the mode of food production, foraging or agriculture, is endogenous, and in which … a one-way transition from foraging to agriculture. <P> Nous étudions un monde dans lequel le choix du mode de production … --- chasse et cueillette ou agriculture --- est endogène et dans lequel il y a progrès technologique exogène. Nous utilisons un …

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"Where there's Muck there's Brass" The Market for Manure in the Industrial Revolution

Brunt, Liam - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 2000

Between 1700 and 1850, English grain yields were substantially higher than those attained in other countries. It is widely believed that yields were constrained by the availability of nitrogen, and that supplies of nitrogen were effectively limited to animal dung produced on the farm. This paper...

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Estimating English Wheat Production in the Industrial Revolution

Brunt, Liam - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 1999

Wheat was the single most important product of the British economy during the Industrial Revolution, being both the largest component of national income and the primary determinant of caloric intake. This paper offers new estimates of annual wheat production during industrialisation. Whereas...

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The environmental behaviour of farmers : capturing the diversity of perspectives with a Q methodological approach

Walder, Peter; Kantelhardt, Jochen - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 143 (2018), pp. 55-63

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Die Agrarwende - was kann die Politik tun?

Isermeyer, Folkhard - 2001

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