Updated estimate of carbon balance on Russian territory

Carbon pricing on the Russian electricity market

The paper examines the impact of pricing carbon emissions in the Russian electricity supply industry. We …nd that emissions are reduced at any level of the carbon price. Most active fuel switching takes place at the carbon tax of 200...500 Roubles per tonne of CO2; but the e¤ect is uneven by zones. The social surplus turns out to be positive. A special case of a new interconnector "Ural Siberia...

An evaluation of territory mapping to estimate fisher density

We evaluated winter-territory mapping as a method for estimating fisher (Martes pennanti) density in a 210-km2 survey area in north-central Massachusetts in 1994 and 1995 by comparing estimates with simultaneous camera mark–resight estimates. Assuming intrasexual territoriality and accounting for all occupied habitat, territories of resident radio-marked fishers were mapped (mean = 54% of all t...

Effects of drought on carbon balance

Effects of drought – altered seasonality and low rainfall – in net ecosystem carbon exchange of three contrasting Mediterranean ecosystems J. S. Pereira, J. A. Mateus, L. M. Aires, G. Pita, C. Pio, V. Andrade, J. Banza, T. S. David, A. Rodrigues, and J. S. David Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal Instituto Superior Técnico...

An Estimate of Utah's Food Balance

Field experiment estimate of electoral fraud in Russian parliamentary elections.

Electoral fraud is a widespread phenomenon, especially outside the developed world. Despite abundant qualitative and anecdotal evidence on its existence from around the world, there is very limited quantitative evidence on the extent of electoral fraud. We exploit random assignment of independent observers to 156 of 3,164 polling stations in the city of Moscow to estimate the effect of electora...