Human-wildlife conflict is a growing obstacle to biodiversity conservation, while the resulting consequences continue to hamper sustainable development. The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in the Western Ghats in South India, characterises a mosaic of land use and biodiversity conservation, human privilege and poverty, and is a case-study for a wide rang...
The responsibilities of the state increased hugely over the course of the 20th century and this resulted in a massive expansion in state expenditure. However, from the 1970s onwards, there was a questioning of the role of the state in a modem society. This questioning was given the name 'New Public Management' (NPM); with one of the key changes bro...
This dissertation is concerned with the empirical study of households' decisions on consumption and time use over the life-cycle. The first chapter presents evidence on the role of shocks around the time of retirement as a potential explanation of the retirement consumption puzzle. We address this issue by studying how expenditure of households in ...
The approach to water management worldwide is currently in transition, with a shift from centralised infrastructures to greater consideration of decentralised technologies, such as rainwater harvesting (R WH). Initiated by recognition of drivers, including water demand, increasing risk of ground-water pollution and flooding, the value of R WH is fi...
Household carbon dioxide emissions (C02) account for approximately 27% of the overall C02 emitted within the United Kingdom (UK) who's Government, has implemented a series of strategies and targets aimed at achieving widespread, zero carbon (Zc) housing by 2016. Until now, it was unclear whether or not house buyers and builders agreed on the types ...
This thesis contains 3 empirical chapters with relevance to the ‘international stock market integration’ literature. The first chapter aims to investigate the evolution of the international integration of emerging European stock markets with the world market for the period of 1996 to 2011. For this purpose, using dynamic conditional correlation app...
This thesis investigates the motivational factors and the types of human-equine interactions and associated experiences which are encountered as a leisure and tourist activity. Despite the growing interest in human-animal relations very few accounts have actually explored horses especially within the realm of leisure and tourism. This research cont...
This thesis is comprised of three chapters on active and passive regime policy rules. The policy makers commit to simple rules in which the monetary authority follows an interest rate targeting rule while the fiscal authority follows a debt targeting rule. The first chapter determines how the conduct of fiscal policy rules interacts with optimal mo...
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