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View article: Acceptability of meat tax and subsidy removal by meat eaters: insights from five European countries
Acceptability of meat tax and subsidy removal by meat eaters: insights from five European countries Open
Governments worldwide are exploring policies aimed at promoting healthier and more sustainable dietary choices. This study examines the public acceptability of two promising yet controversial policy interventions: the introduction of a mea…
View article: Green Deal and Carbon Neutrality Assessment of Czechia
Green Deal and Carbon Neutrality Assessment of Czechia Open
The European Green Deal declares climate neutrality as a goal for the year 2050. It establishes an EU binding target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030 compared to 1990. The market, through the EU Emissions Trading Sc…
View article: Green Deal and Carbon Neutrality Assessment of Czechia
Green Deal and Carbon Neutrality Assessment of Czechia Open
The Green Deal for Europe aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and sets a binding EU target of a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. The contributions of EU Member States to this target will be …
View article: Dynamics and Management of Restored Forests in Post-Mining Sites with Respect to Their Recreation Value: A Matrix Growth Model
Dynamics and Management of Restored Forests in Post-Mining Sites with Respect to Their Recreation Value: A Matrix Growth Model Open
Afforestation has been a popular restoration procedure for spoil heaps in the sites affected by coal open-cast mining in the Czech Republic. Forest replantation is a frequent restoration variant when spoil heaps are recovered, but unreclai…
View article: Valuation of heat related mortality risk and tick-borne diseases
Valuation of heat related mortality risk and tick-borne diseases Open
Monetary impacts of premature mortality due to heat waves Preferences for public programmes against spread of ticks due to climate change and a new vaccine against Lyme disease, prevalence of tick-borne diseases and exposure to ticks
View article: Valuation of heat related mortality risk and tick-borne diseases
Valuation of heat related mortality risk and tick-borne diseases Open
Monetary impacts of premature mortality due to heat waves Preferences for public programmes against spread of ticks due to climate change and a new vaccine against Lyme disease, prevalence of tick-borne diseases and exposure to ticks
View article: How High Is the Recreation Value of Successional Forests Growing Spontaneously on Coal Mine Spoil Heaps?
How High Is the Recreation Value of Successional Forests Growing Spontaneously on Coal Mine Spoil Heaps? Open
Research highlights: Recreation value increases with the age of replanted as well as successional forests. Successional forests are not systematically less valuable for recreation than replanted forests. Succession may be used as a viable …
View article: Encouraging and Enabling Lifestyles and Behaviours to Simultaneously Promote Environmental Sustainability, Health and Equity: Key Policy Messages from INHERIT
Encouraging and Enabling Lifestyles and Behaviours to Simultaneously Promote Environmental Sustainability, Health and Equity: Key Policy Messages from INHERIT Open
Human consumption and activity are damaging the global ecosystem and the resources on which we rely for health, well-being and survival. The COVID-19 crisis is yet another manifestation of the urgent need to transition to more sustainable …
View article: How to Achieve a Healthier and More Sustainable Europe by 2040 According to the Public? Results of a Five-Country Questionnaire Survey
How to Achieve a Healthier and More Sustainable Europe by 2040 According to the Public? Results of a Five-Country Questionnaire Survey Open
The aim of this paper is to understand public preferences for several future scenarios of achieving a healthier, more equitable and sustainable Europe, which differ in the way the society is organized (individualistically vs. collectively)…
View article: Incentivizing Commuter Cycling by Financial and Non-Financial Rewards
Incentivizing Commuter Cycling by Financial and Non-Financial Rewards Open
Current mobility patterns over-rely on transport modes that do not benefit sustainable and healthy lifestyles. To explore the potential for active mobility, we conducted a randomized experiment aimed at increasing regular commuter cycling …
View article: Ten Lessons for Good Practice for the INHERIT Triple Win: Health, Equity, and Environmental Sustainability
Ten Lessons for Good Practice for the INHERIT Triple Win: Health, Equity, and Environmental Sustainability Open
The world’s challenges of climate change, damage to ecosystems, and social and health inequalities require changes in human behaviours at every level of organisation, among governments, business, communities, and individuals. An important …
View article: Valuation of travel time in free-flow and congested traffic and its reliability-estimates for Czech Republic
Valuation of travel time in free-flow and congested traffic and its reliability-estimates for Czech Republic Open
A prerequisite for any monetary estimation of economic losses arising from traffic congestion is a reliable estimate of the value of travel time. Although the available evidence from abroad reveals significant differences in the values of …
View article: Valuing environmental health for informed policy-making
Valuing environmental health for informed policy-making Open
Background:Monetized environmental health impact assessments help to better evaluate the environmental burden of a wide range of economic activities. Apart from the limitations and uncertainties in physical and biological science used in s…
View article: Consumer preferences for sustainable and healthy lifestyle: Five-country discrete choice experiments
Consumer preferences for sustainable and healthy lifestyle: Five-country discrete choice experiments Open
Consumers preferences for sustainable and healthier lifestyle are examined through stated preference discrete choice experiments. Specifically, we introduce several choice situations in which each respondent was asked to choose the best fr…
View article: The INHERIT Model: A Tool to Jointly Improve Health, Environmental Sustainability and Health Equity through Behavior and Lifestyle Change
The INHERIT Model: A Tool to Jointly Improve Health, Environmental Sustainability and Health Equity through Behavior and Lifestyle Change Open
The need for analysis and action across the interrelated domains of human behaviors and lifestyles, environmental sustainability, health and inequality is increasingly apparent. Currently, these areas are often not considered in conjunctio…
View article: Perinatal health in the Danube region – new birth cohort justified
Perinatal health in the Danube region – new birth cohort justified Open
In 2013–2015, a consortium of European scientists – NEWDANUBE – was established to prepare a birth cohort in the Danube region, including most of the countries with the highest air pollution in Europe, the area being one-fifth of the Europ…
View article: The Health Costs of Revised Coal Mining Limits in Northern Bohemia
The Health Costs of Revised Coal Mining Limits in Northern Bohemia Open
Brown coal has been the major source of energy for more than 150 years for the Czech economy, but its role in the coming decades is nowadays the source of heated debate. Many of the recurring discussions address the coal reserves that were…