Carbon Valuation: Alternatives, Alternations and Lateral Measures?

Carbon Valuation: Alternatives, Alternations and Lateral Measures?

This article refers to carbon valuation as the practice of ascribing value to, and assessing the value of, actions and objects in terms of carbon emissions. Due to the pervasiveness of carbon emissions in the actions and objects of everyday lives of human beings, the making of carbon offsets and credits offers almost unlimited repertoires of alternatives to be included in contemporary carbon va...

Spash, Stagl and Getzner " Exploring Alternatives for Environmental Valuation " Chapter 1 from Alternatives for Environmental Valuation Getzner, Spash & Stagl (eds.) London: Routledge, 2005 1 1 Exploring Alternatives for Environmental Valuation

Introduction The method of inclusion of environmental resources and ecosystem services in decision processes determines how far they are taken into account with results affecting the quality of our lives and those of future generations. A persistent argument has been that monetary valuation is essential if the 'environment' is to have any chance of being included in government and business deci...

Coherent Risk Measures, Valuation Bounds, and (μ, ρ)- Portfolio Optimization

This paper works out the relation between coherent risk measures, valuation bounds, and certain classes of portfolio optimization problems. One of the key results is that coherent risk measures are essentially equivalent to generalized arbitrage bounds, named “good deal bounds” by Cerny and Hodges (1999). The results are economically general in the sense that they work for any cash stream space...

Verb Classes and Alternations

In this report, we investigate the relationship between the semantic and syntactic properties of verbs. Our work is based on the English Verb Classes and Alternations of (Levin, 1993). We explore how these classes are manifested in other languages, in particular, in Bangla, German, and Korean. Our report includes a survey and classiication of several hundred verbs from these languages into the ...

Tropical Forest and Carbon Stock’s Valuation: A Monitoring Policy