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Publication date: June 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 184 Author(s): Manuel Bellanger, Robert Fonner, Daniel S. Holland, Gary D. Libecap, Douglas W. Lipton, Pierre Scemama, Cameron Speir, Olivier Thébaud

As climate impacts intensify, power grids stuffed with ageing fossil fuel infrastructure crumble Climate change is full of surprises. We were warned about heatwaves, hurricanes and high-intensity firestorms. What we didn’t see coming was a cynical, cyclical economy of blackout bullshit. As climate impacts intensify, power grids stuffed with ageing fossil fuel infrastructure crumble. Those

Our pre-pandemic dog days are our destination once more unless we break sharply with the policies and political culture of the early 21st century Australia’s economy performed poorly for most of its citizens in the seven years from the China resources boom to the pandemic. I call these years from 2013 to 2019 the dog

Publication date: June 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 184 Author(s): Xialin Wang, Ernst-August Nuppenau

We break down the facts around one of the Coalition’s five priority areas in its ‘technology, not taxes’ response to the climate crisis The Morrison government is backing soil carbon – drawing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in the land – as a major part of its response to the climate crisis. The

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Although subsistence poaching is a large threat to wildlife conservation in Southern Africa, this behavior is seldom researched. Our understanding of individual and community level factors that drive such behavior is limited because of both lack of data and the literature’s predominant focus on commercial poaching. The main objective of this study is to contribute

Artificial light at night (ALAN) is nowadays recognized as a major anthropogenic pressure on the environment on a global scale and as such is called light pollution. Through its attractive or deterrent effects, and its disruption of the biological clock for many animal and plant taxa, ALAN is increasingly recognized as a major threat to

Exclusive: Ángel Gurría says action on environmental crises must be defining focus of wealthy countries after Covid Finance ministers have to be green, says head of OECD The environment, climate change and the protection of nature must be the defining tasks of rich and major developing countries now and in the years to come, the