Environmental Inequality and Economic Valuation

Economic Principles and Overview of Valuation Methods for Environmental Impacts1

Valuing the services derived from the environment is important because it ‘works’ – i.e. it helps make the case for protecting the environment in an effective way. Indeed it can be, in many cases, a more effective instrument than other methods of protecting the environment – such as lobbying, undertaking direct action and so on. But to be successful it has to be carried out in a credible and pr...

Globalization And Inequality In Different Economic Blocks

Economic inequality and economic growth

The paper enquires into the relationship between economic inequality and economic growth, but different from others, it also studies the relationship between inequality and economic growth in the situation where consideration of effect of factor movement is included. The paper tends to answer the questions such as whether inequality should be eradicated completely. Panel data models are used fo...

Economic Valuation of the Shadegan Wetland

The Shadegan Wetland is located in the southwest of Iran. It is one of the wetlands internationally registered in the Ramsar Convention. Thanks to its variety of functionalities this wetlands has provided the local people with lots of job opportunities. Nowadays, as a result of located in the oil fields, this wetland is threatened by many of the projects run in its vicinity, like oil exploratio...

Economic crises and Inequality

Sustainability for a society means long-term viability, but also the ability to cope with economic crises and disasters. Just as with natural disasters, we can minimize the chance of them occurring and set in place policies to protect the world’s citizens against their consequences. This paper is concerned with the impact of economic crises on the inequality of resources and with the impact of ...