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Sigrid Stagl
Other affiliations: University of Sussex, WIFO, University of Leeds ...read more
Bio: Sigrid Stagl is an academic researcher from Vienna University of Economics and Business. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecological economics & Sustainability. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 84 publications receiving 5198 citations. Previous affiliations of Sigrid Stagl include University of Sussex & WIFO.
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: The role of economics, ethics, and ecology in environmental decision-making processes is discussed in this paper, and the fundamental philosophies underlying different approaches, and the tools used in the approaches.
Abstract: Provides a comprehensive introduction to the core themes of ecological economics. Emphasis on the roles of economics, ethics, and ecology in environmental decision-making processes. Reviews and explores the fundamental philosophies underlying different approaches, and the tools used in the approaches.
381 citations
TL;DR: The co-evolutionary perspective outlined in this paper serves as heuristic device to map the interactions settled in the networks between the resource base, social institutions and the behaviour of individual actors to improve the management of social–ecological systems.
373 citations
TL;DR: The paper concludes that assessing scenarios with PMCA is resource intense, but this methodology captures successfully the context of technology deployment and allows decision-making based on a robust and democratic process, which addresses uncertainties, acknowledges multiple legitimate perspectives and encourages social learning.
360 citations
06 Oct 2005
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define ecological economics as "interdependent systems: the environment, the economy, and the economy in the environment" and discuss the relationship between the environment and economic activity.
Abstract: 1 What is ecological economics? Part I Interdependent Systems: 2 The environment 3 The economy in the environment 4 How we got here Part II Economic Activity: 5 Economic accounting 6 Economic growth and human well-being 7 Economic growth and the environment 8 Exchange and markets 9 Limits to markets Part III Governance: 10 Determining policy objectives 11 Policy instruments Part IV The International Dimension: 12 A world of nation states 13 Climate change 14 Biodiversity loss
291 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the UK moorlands as a case study of moorland landscapes that are in different states of degradation and present a need to develop approaches that combine understanding of interlinked social and natural processes.
288 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the development of participatory approaches in different disciplinary and geographical contexts, and reviews typologies that can be used to categorise and select participatory methods.
3,421 citations
TL;DR: The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis as discussed by the authors proposes an inverted-U-shaped relationship between different pollutants and per capita income, i.e., environmental pressure increases up to a certain level as income goes up; after that, it decreases.
2,882 citations
26 Apr 2010
TL;DR: This work model personalized recommendation of news articles as a contextual bandit problem, a principled approach in which a learning algorithm sequentially selects articles to serve users based on contextual information about the users and articles, while simultaneously adapting its article-selection strategy based on user-click feedback to maximize total user clicks.
Abstract: Personalized web services strive to adapt their services (advertisements, news articles, etc.) to individual users by making use of both content and user information. Despite a few recent advances, this problem remains challenging for at least two reasons. First, web service is featured with dynamically changing pools of content, rendering traditional collaborative filtering methods inapplicable. Second, the scale of most web services of practical interest calls for solutions that are both fast in learning and computation.In this work, we model personalized recommendation of news articles as a contextual bandit problem, a principled approach in which a learning algorithm sequentially selects articles to serve users based on contextual information about the users and articles, while simultaneously adapting its article-selection strategy based on user-click feedback to maximize total user clicks.The contributions of this work are three-fold. First, we propose a new, general contextual bandit algorithm that is computationally efficient and well motivated from learning theory. Second, we argue that any bandit algorithm can be reliably evaluated offline using previously recorded random traffic. Finally, using this offline evaluation method, we successfully applied our new algorithm to a Yahoo! Front Page Today Module dataset containing over 33 million events. Results showed a 12.5% click lift compared to a standard context-free bandit algorithm, and the advantage becomes even greater when data gets more scarce.
2,467 citations
01 Jan 1977
TL;DR: In the Hamadryas baboon, males are substantially larger than females, and a troop of baboons is subdivided into a number of ‘one-male groups’, consisting of one adult male and one or more females with their young.
Abstract: In the Hamadryas baboon, males are substantially larger than females. A troop of baboons is subdivided into a number of ‘one-male groups’, consisting of one adult male and one or more females with their young. The male prevents any of ‘his’ females from moving too far from him. Kummer (1971) performed the following experiment. Two males, A and B, previously unknown to each other, were placed in a large enclosure. Male A was free to move about the enclosure, but male B was shut in a small cage, from which he could observe A but not interfere. A female, unknown to both males, was then placed in the enclosure. Within 20 minutes male A had persuaded the female to accept his ownership. Male B was then released into the open enclosure. Instead of challenging male A , B avoided any contact, accepting A’s ownership.
2,364 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a dialectical perspective to provide a unique framework for understanding institutional change that more fully captures its totalistic, historical, and dynamic nature, as well as fundamentally resolves a theoretical dilemma of institutional theory: the relative swing between agency and embeddedness.
Abstract: We use a dialectical perspective to provide a unique framework for understanding institutional change that more fully captures its totalistic, historical, and dynamic nature, as well as fundamentally resolves a theoretical dilemma of institutional theory: the relative swing between agency and embeddedness. In this framework institutional change is understood as an outcome of the dynamic interactions between two institutional by-products: institutional contradictions and human praxis. In particular, we depict praxis—agency embedded in a totality of multiple levels of interpenetrating, incompatible institutional arrangements (contradictions)—as an essential driving force of institutional change.
2,317 citations