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VAT adjustments could save 170,000 lives a year in Europe

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Half of all students worry about plagiarism detection software

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  • Pushing the limits to participation in Argentina’s protected areas
  • Playing Jesus to save species: A virtue ethics approach to biotech de-extinction projects
  • Assembling for water: The prefigurative politics of land futures in Argentina
  • Fermenting shea nuts using the traditional pit method yields better physicochemical properties with potential environmental benefits
  • High bar for change: uncertainty source preferences in the choice of adapting agricultural practices
  • Does the payment vehicle matter for valuing improved electricity reliability? A discrete choice experiment in Ethiopia
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  • Nation-wide mapping shows linkages between sand mining activities, human land use, and hydrology in Rwanda
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2025.04.09

The effect of the Green Tripartite to be analysed

A new research project will investigate the economic, environmental and climate effects of the…
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VAT adjustments could save 170,000 lives a year in Europe

170,000 deaths a year could be avoided if European countries were to increase value-added tax (VAT)…
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2024.12.16

Half of all students worry about plagiarism detection software

In a new study around half of the high school and university students from seven European countries…
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2024.12.05

Researchers: If Power-to-X is to be a real climate solution, the state needs to use the stick

Despite the massive hype surrounding Power-to-X (PtX), most of the world's announced green hydrogen…

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Toolbox PhD course: Advanced Microeconomics

The Department of Food and Resource Economics is hosting a 5 ETCS Toolbox PhD course in Advanced Microeconomics - Theory and Applications running from January to May 2025. Registration deadline: 15 December 2024.

Do Private Incentives Crowd Out Public Good Donations? Evidence From a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Open online seminar with Kira Lancker, Department of Food and Resource Economics

Inaugural lecture: Max Nielsen and Rasmus Nielsen

To celebrate their appointment as Professors of Economics and Management of Marine Resources and Aquaculture, Max Nielsen and Rasmus Nielsen will give their inaugural lectures followed by a reception.

Does the Measurement Unit Matter? Valuing Biodiversity Using State Preference Methods

Does the Measurement Unit Matter? Valuing Biodiversity Using State Preference Methods.

Smart Contracts and Reaction Function Games

Open online seminar with Jens Leth Hougaard, Department of Food and Resource Economics

Crowdfunding of Organic Farming

Open online seminar with Jens Abildtrup, INRAE, France

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