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2016
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Sander Jacobs Nicolas Dendoncker Berta Martín-López David Nicholas Barton Erik Gomez-Baggethun Fanny Boeraeve Francesca L. McGrath Kati Vierikko Davide Geneletti Katharina J. Sevecke Nathalie Pipart Eeva Primmer Peter Mederly Stefan Schmidt Alexandra Aragão Himlal Baral Rosalind H. Bark Tania Briceno Delphine Brogna Pedro Cabral Rik De Vreese Camino Liquete Hannah Mueller Kelvin S.-H. Peh Anna Phelan Alexander R. Rincón Shannon H. Rogers Francis Turkelboom Wouter Van Reeth Boris T. van Zanten Hilde Karine Wam Carla-Leanne WashbournSammendrag
We are increasingly confronted with severe social and economic impacts of environmental degradation all over the world. From a valuation perspective, environmental problems and conflicts originate from trade-offs between values. The urgency and importance to integrate nature's diverse values in decisions and actions stand out more than ever. Valuation, in its broad sense of ‘assigning importance’, is inherently part of most decisions on natural resource and land use. Scholars from different traditions -while moving from heuristic interdisciplinary debate to applied transdisciplinary science- now acknowledge the need for combining multiple disciplines and methods to represent the diverse set of values of nature. This growing group of scientists and practitioners share the ambition to explore how combinations of ecological, socio-cultural and economic valuation tools can support real-life resource and land use decision-making. The current sustainability challenges and the ineffectiveness of single-value approaches to offer relief demonstrate that continuing along a single path is no option. We advocate for the adherence of a plural valuation culture and its establishment as a common practice, by contesting and complementing ineffective and discriminatory single-value approaches. In policy and decision contexts with a willingness to improve sustainability, integrated valuation approaches can be blended in existing processes, whereas in contexts of power asymmetries or environmental conflicts, integrated valuation can promote the inclusion of diverse values through action research and support the struggle for social and environmental justice. The special issue and this editorial synthesis paper bring together lessons from pioneer case studies and research papers, synthesizing main challenges and setting out priorities for the years to come for the field of integrated valuation.
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Agnar Kvalbein Arne Tronsmo Anne Mette Dahl Jensen Karin Juul Hesselsøe Trygve S. Aamlid Maria StrandbergSammendrag
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Mogens Lund Jørgen Dejgård JensenSammendrag
The aim of the article is to identify and analyse public-private incentives for the development and marketing of new animal vaccines within a real options methodological framework, and to investigate how real options methodology can be utilized to support economic incentives for vaccine development in a cost-effective way. The development of a vaccine against Campylobacter jejuni in poultry is applied as a case study. Employing the real options methodology, the net present value of the vaccine R&D project becomes larger than a purely probabilistic expected present value throughout the different stages of the project − and the net present value becomes larger, when more types of real options are taken into consideration. The insight from the real options analysis reveals opportunities for new policies to promote the development of animal vaccines. One such approach might be to develop schemes combining stage-by-stage optimized subsidies in the individual development stages, with proper account taken of investors’/developers' economic incentives to proceed, sell or cancel the project in the respective stages. Another way of using the real options approach to support the development of desirable animal vaccines could be to issue put options for the vaccine candidate, enabling vaccine developers to hedge against the economic risk from market volatility.
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Biancha CavicchiSammendrag
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Gudbrand Lien Subal Chandra Kumbhakar J. Brian HardakerSammendrag
Empirical studies have often shown wide differences in productivity among firms. Although several studies have sought to identify factors causing such differences, only a few studies have examined the effects of risk and risk aversion on productivity. In this study, using Norwegian dairy farming data for 2009, we examined the effects of different aspects of risk on productivity. We used a range of variables to construct indices of risk taking, risk perception and risk management. These indices were then included as arguments in an input distance function which represents the production technology. Our results show that these risk indices did affect productivity. Regional differences in productivity, though small, were also found to exist, suggesting that unobserved edaphic factors that differ between regions also affected productivity.
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Krishna Reddy Kakumanu Kuppannan Palanisami Pramod Kumar Aggarwal Coimbatore Ramarao Ranganathan Sekhar Udaya NagothuSammendrag
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Gry AlfredsenSammendrag
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