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| MacAuley, Molly K.. |
| In 1994 one of the most radical institutional restructurings in the U.S. government's provision of critical weather information took place after eight unsuccessful attempts. A presidential decision directive merged weather data collection by satellites operated by the Department of Defense for military operations and satellites operated by the Department of Commerce for civilian weather forecasting. Such radical restructuring involving government agencies with different objectives, economic constraints, and operating cultures is rare. This paper reviews the decision that led to "convergence," discusses economic arguments advanced for the merger, and finds that the problem of an incomplete contract, from the perspective of contract theory, is the... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Weather economics; Space economics; Value of information; Government policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q28; O32; Q00. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10539 |
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| Henson, Spencer J.; Caswell, Julie A.; Cranfield, John A.L.; Fazil, Aamir; Davidson, Valerie J.; Anders, Sven M.; Schmidt, Claudia. |
| To lower the incidence of human food-borne disease, experts and stakeholders have urged the development of a science- and risk-based management system in which food-borne hazards are analyzed and prioritized. A literature review shows that most approaches to risk prioritization developed to date are based on measures of health outcomes and do not systematically account for other factors that may be important to decision making. The Multi-Factorial Risk Prioritization Framework developed here considers four factors that may be important to risk managers: public health, consumer risk perceptions and acceptance, market-level impacts, and social sensitivity. The framework is based on the systematic organization and analysis of data on these multiple factors.... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Risk analysis; Risk prioritization; Food-borne pathogens; Benefits and costs; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; I18; L51; Q00; K32; H11. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7385 |
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| Pongiglione, Francesca. |
| In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: (a) knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, (b) risk perception, as it relates to an individual’s direct experience of climate change and (c) self-interest, either monetary or status-driven. Drawing on a variety of sources in public policy, psychology, and economics, I examine the role of these concepts in inducing or discouraging pro-environmental behavior. Past researches have often overemphasized the weight of just one of those variables in the decision making. I argue, instead, that none of them alone is capable of bringing about the behavioral change required by the environmental crisis. Evidence... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Individual Behavior; Climate-Change; Psychology; Uncertainty; Environmental Economics and Policy; D03; D80; Q00. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119094 |
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| Rios, Merce Sala. |
| Resumen: El presente trabajo analiza la evolución de la industria alimentaria de la economía española a lo largo del período 1986-1998. El objetivo es llegar a conclusiones acerca de la especialización productiva, la demanda y los intercambios con el exterior. Conclusiones que se abordan a nivel sectorial. Ello es así desde el momento en que se ha desglosado la industria alimentaria en 12 sectores que serán sobre los que se trabajará. En definitiva, se trata de evaluar los principales cambios en la estructura de mercado de los distintos sectores mediante el análisis de un modelo contable que parte de la igualdad entre recursos y empleos. Dicho modelo nos permitirá aproximar conceptos como la tasa de absorción, la tasa de apertura, la tasa de penetración y... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; L22; Q00; L22; Q00. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28784 |
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| Arora, Seema; Cason, Timothy N.. |
| This research uses neighborhood characteristics (at the zipcode level) to explain changes in toxic releases between 1990 and 1993. It combines the Toxics Release Inventory data with demographic data from the 1990 US Census. We first analyze the location of manufacturing facilities in a particular neighborhood using a sample selection model, and then attribute changes in the level of emissions between 1990 and 1993 to the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the neighborhood in 1990. The results indicate that variables likely to affect the propensity for communities to engage in political action significantly influence environmental performance. Economic characteristics of neighborhoods (such as income levels and unemployment) also affect... |
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Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy; Q00. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10531 |
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| Kverndokk, Snorre; Rose, Adam Z.. |
| Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such as the international Kyoto Protocol, post-Kyoto negotiations, regional initiatives, and unilateral actions. Although most studies on climate change policies in economics have considered efficiency aspects, there is a growing literature on equity and justice. Climate change policy has important dimensions of distributive justice, both within and across generations, but in this paper we survey only studies on the intragenerational aspect, i.e., within a generation. We... |
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Palavras-chave: Economics of Climate Change; Intragenerational Equity; Distributive Justice; Environmental Economics and Policy; D62; D63; H23; H41; Q00. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44230 |
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| MacAuley, Molly K.. |
| The lay of the policy land for addressing and managing environmental risk includes the hillock of the precautionary principle, the mountain of the practice and ethics of monetary valuation, and the tectonic plates of real-world innovations in markets and trading exchanges for nonmarketed environmental goods. This paper offers an overview of these contemporary and as yet unresolved issues and asks how each might be addressed in disparate environmental risks such as lightning, climate change, and severe weather. The overview focuses on issues that may be of interest to the American Meteorological Society's annual policy colloquium. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Risk; Environment; Public policy; Economics; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q00; D89. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10494 |
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| Caballero-Miguez, Gonzalo; Garza-Gil, Maria Dolores. |
| In recent decades, the New Institutional Economics has brought about the “return of institutions” to the economic mainstream, and institutional theory and analysis have been developed from Ronald Coase’s notion of transaction costs and Douglass North’s view on institutions. The Nobel Prize award in Economics to Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom in 2009 has pointed out the relevance of the new institutional approach. Natural Resource Economics has included the institutional determinants of the management of natural resources into its research agenda. In this sense, the advances of the New Institutional Economics allows the development of institutional analysis in the field of the Economics of Natural Resources, such as Elinor Ostrom’s work has shown. This... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; B52; Q00; L22. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99096 |
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