Aims and Scope

ReviewerCreditsResources and Environmental Economics (REE) (ISSN:2630-4457) is an international peer-reviewed journal to discuss, analyze and evaluate the trend of resources economics and environmental economics. With the deterioration of resource shortage and polluted environment, this journal encourages to apply economic theory and method to natural issues. Submissions of original research, review article, commentary, perspective, opinion, as well as critical article in the field addressed would all be welcomed.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Resources economics
• Environmental economics
• Sustainable development
• Policy formulation, impact and response
• Management strategies
• Environmental quality indicators
• Modelling and simulation
• Renewable energy commercialization
• Environmental certification and audit

Vol 5 No 1 (2023)

Published: 2023-04-14

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Page 379-398

The performance of mixed and penalized effects models in predicting the value of the ecological footprint of tourism

blankpage Ahmad Roumiani, Omid Akhgari

In recent decades, the issue of ecological footprint (EF) in the world has become a serious anxiety among environmental stakeholders. This anxiety is more in top tourism attracting countries. The purpose of this research is the performance of mixed and penalized effects models in predicting the value of the EF of tourism in the top eight countries of tourism destinations. The World Bank and Global Footprint Network databases have been used in this study. Penalized regression and MCMC models have been used to estimate the EF over the past 19 years (2000-2018). The findings of the research showed that the amount of ecological footprint in China, France and Italy is much higher than other countries. In addition, based on the results, a slight improvement in the performance of penalized models to linear regression was observed. The comparison of the models shows that in the Ridge and Elastic Net models, more indicators were selected than Lasso, but Lasso has a better predictive performance than other models on ecological footprint. Therefore, the use of penalized models is only slightly better than linear regression, but they provide the selection of appropriate indices for model parsimoniousness. The results showed that the penalized models are powerful tools that can provide a significant performance in the accuracy and prediction of the EF variable in tourism attracting countries.

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2023-04-14
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Pages 376-378

Biofuel certification

blankpage Sanjay Mohite

Scope of biofuel certification is reviewed. It has been found that a biofuel certification is needed in the biofuels industry to authenticate biodiesel and its blends for use in diesel engines.In the world, a standard energy audit method is required to evaluate the feasibility of biodiesel blend as fuel and also harmonise the research of biodiesel as fuel. Leagal measures for biofuel certification is required. There are various obstacles and challenges for biofuel  certification. Therefore, this paper addresses the legal measures, obstacles and challenges for biofuel certification.

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Muammer Kaya-photo  ISSN: 2630-4457
 Abbreviation: Resour Environ Econ
 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Muammer Kaya(Turkey)
 Publishing Frequency: Semi-annual
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 Publishing Model: Open Access