Do we care about sustainability? An analysis of time sensitivity of social preferences under environmental time-persistent effects
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- Michela Faccioli & Nick Hanley & Catalina M. Torres Figuerola & Antoni Riera Font, 2015. "Do we care about sustainability? An analysis of time sensitivity of social preferences under environmental time-persistent effects," Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics 2015-17, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development.
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Keywords
time-persistent environmental problems; sustainability; preference analysis; choice experiment; time sensitivity; climate change.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
- D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
- Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2015-08-13 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2015-08-13 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-RES-2015-08-13 (Resource Economics)
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