Aggregates are the second-most consumed product in the world after water. This geological resource is used as building and construction material, and its production in quarries and delivery to customers generates several environmental problems. Their transport from quarries to consumption points, almost entirely done by truck, also generates impact...
Enlightening discourses and subjective perceptions is a crucial issue for policy makers to improve public acceptance and better understand social conflicts. This paper offers an overview of reasons to use Q methodology in environmental economic policy and an example on water governance. Based on 35 face-to face interviews with French water stakehol...
Energy system planning has evolved from a narrow focus on engineering and supply works towards addressing more complex, multifactorial challenges. Increasingly challenged by climate change, extreme events, economic shocks, and altered supply demand patterns, the analysis of energy systems requires holistic approaches based on data-driven models, ta...
This study delves into the complex interplay between land use dynamics, hydrological services, and intangible benefits within the context of Ifrane National Park (INP) in Morocco. Due to its extensive mountain forests and numerous wetlands, INP is a crucial contributor to the nation’s water supply and a vital source of hydrological ecosystem servic...
The Philippine duck (Anas luzonica) is a vulnerable species, endemic to the Philippines. The need of local people for food and land has led to the endangerment of the Philippine duck populations through illegal hunting and the conversion of wetlands to aquaculture and farmland. This study was conducted to determine the willingness to pay (WTP) of r...
Published in Environmental Research Communications
Climate change mitigation by increased paper recycling can alleviate the two-sided pressure on the Swedish forest sector: supplying growing demands for wood-based products and increasing the forest carbon sink. This study assesses two scenarios for making use of a reduced demand for primary pulp resulting from an increased paper recycling rate in S...
This document analyzes the expectations and objectives of the Ministries of Finance, Economy, and Finance of Latin America and the Caribbean regarding implementing carbon pricing mechanisms. It contrasts it with existing evidence regarding these instruments.Twelve qualitative interviews were conducted with specialists from ministries in the region,...
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Economics
Business sustainability in the tourism sector has been a topic of interest in recent years, due to the consequences generated by climate change and the pressures from different stakeholders for tourism companies to assertively manage the impacts of their activities. Consequently, the purpose of the research was to identify the conception that touri...
This article traces the development of environmental economic history focusing on the Nordic countries over the past decades. In doing so, a definition of environmental economic history is presented to distinguish the field of research from traditional economic history as well as environmental history. As shown, the field developed both in relation...
