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Alistair Munro
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Professor. Co-Chief-Editor Environmental & Resource Economics. Behavioural, Environmental, Experimental, Development. Mostly Ibaraki. バーコードなし. Sky Blue.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 8h
In February's Environmental and Resource Economics: how should CBA be done for pilot projects that generate spillovers? With the French glassware industry as a case study,
Maryam Sadighi Jean-Pierre Ponssard, Maria Eugenia Sanin, Murès Zarea & Elodie Le Cadre Loret provide answers.
Sectoral Cost-Benefit Analysis for Clean Technology Demonstrators: Insights for Decarbonizing Hard-to-Abate Industries - Environmental and Resource Economics
Environmental and Resource Economics - Adopting disruptive technologies to decarbonize hard-to-abate industrial sectors requires experimentation through demonstration (pilot) projects. However,...
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 14h
In February's Environmental and Resource Economics: Bui Bich Xuan, Quach Thi Khanh Ngoc, Claire W. Armstrong, Godwin K. Vondolia & Pham Khanh Nam investigate the roles of social norms in sustaining illegal fishing activities in Vietnam. #Econsky #EAERE

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Understanding Non-Compliance with Rights-Based Fisheries Management In Vietnam - Environmental and Resource Economics
Environmental and Resource Economics - Understanding the determinants of non-compliance is crucial for the effective management and conservation of small-scale fisheries. This study empirically...
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 17h
Crown or #Krungji (크룽지)?

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 17h
Louvre releases photos of crown damaged in heist - but insists it will be restored
Louvre releases photos of crown damaged in heist - but insists it will be restored
The crown of French Empress Eugenie recovered after last year's Louvre heist was left damaged - but remains largely intact and will be restored, the museum has said. 
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 18h
A balanced panel?

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 20h
😀I mean, did they ever start to get suspicious or was it only after seeing the camera recording that they checked back?

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d
Kind of impressed that Aeon mall is not just covering white day and the Uniqlo sale in their house magazine but is now digging deep into philosophy. Is there some tie in with Cainz for this piece?

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d
I’d be more impressed if it was only the clockwise side

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d
Inubousaki is a day trip from Tokyo and has a small museum, much of it about Brunton

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Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 1d
(1/7) Keisuke Kinoshita’s 1957 film 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘰𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸 (喜びも悲しみも幾歳月), also known as 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦, was shot at ten lighthouses across Japan. Kannonzaki Lighthouse, Kanagawa below on right, and more screenshots from the film in thread…

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 1d
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d
Lovely study, but "High" is perhaps overstating it. The y axis shows percentage change. With a baseline of 0.68%, average conviction rate rises by about 1/1000 of a conviction per year per person.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 2d
Only 10 cases of Guinea worm disease were recorded *globally* last year.

It may become the second human disease we eradicate, after smallpox.
Semafor: Guinea worm neared global eradication, with just 10 cases reported worldwide in 2025, all of them in Chad, Ethiopia, or South Sudan. When former US President Jimmy Carter founded an eradication program in the mid-1980s, there were millions of infections in developing countries and the only human disease that had ever previously been permanently defeated was smallpox. The parasitic infection, transmitted via contaminated water, leads to three-foot worms emerging from painful leg ulcers, and causes long-term incapacitation and disability. While Carter did not, as he hoped, outlive the last Guinea worm (he died in 2024), he may have come close; the 10 cases mark a 33% decrease year-on-year.

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James D.J. Brown @jamesdjbrown.bsky.social · 2d
Honda remains popular in Russia despite the firm no longer having official representation there. Registration of new Hondas was up 18% in 2025. Imports of used Hondas were up 12%.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d
1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵
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Correspondence with Noam Chomsky
This is supporting material for the article See No Evil.
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James D.J. Brown @jamesdjbrown.bsky.social · 2d
Japan’s exports to Russia of agricultural products & seafood jumped 439% in 2025. The total value of these exports was $246m.

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 2d
Are you a #Stata user? Maybe you work with one?

Have you ever found yourself copy-pasting from the results window?

It's annoying as hell! And terrible practice. So I wrote a blog post on using #rstats to extract results from Stata log files

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Using R to extract results from Stata log files – Ben Harrap
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 2d
The entrumpification of Japanese politics has arrived

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David McNeill @davidamcneill.bsky.social · 2d
The Asahi Shimbun: "Japan's ruling coalition aims to restore Japanese military ranks used in World War II for members of the Self-Defense Forces, a plan that has drawn concern and bewilderment in the Defense Ministry." www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
Coalition pushes revival of ranks from imperial military days | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
The ruling coalition aims to restore Japanese military ranks used in World War II for members of the Self-Defense Forces, a plan that has drawn concern and bewilderment in the Defense Ministry.
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John Garver @geogarver.bsky.social · 3d
Lead (Pb) in archived hair in Salt Lake City.

"Lead (Pb) in archived hair documents a decline in lead exposure to humans since the establishment of the US Environmental Protection Agency "

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Pb concentration by decade in hair from Salt Lake City region residents. Value plotted for 1940 includes all samples from 1916 to 1959; value plotted at 2022 includes all samples from 2020 to 2024.

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ESCoE @escoeorg.bsky.social · 4d
Water is a vital economic resource. How do we account for it?
Join our ESCoE webinar on compiling UK freshwater accounts using the UN SEEA-EA standard: tinyurl.com/yc8ffxmy
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Compiling natural capital accounts for the UK: Accounts for freshwater as an example - ESCoE
The webinar will cover the ESCoE work carried out at UCL and UEA to compile accounts for freshwater resources in the UK.
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Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics @nhhecon.bsky.social · 4d
"Undermining Academic Freedom and Environmental Research in the US: How European Institutions and Researchers can Fill the Gap" - a publication by Linda Nøstbakken (@nhhecon.bsky.social & @nhhnor.bsky.social), Simone Borghesi and Phoebe Koundouri: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Undermining Academic Freedom and Environmental Research in the US: How European Institutions and Researchers can Fill the Gap - Environmental and Resource Economics
The current US administration’s actions could undermine academic freedom and environmental research, posing significant challenges not only domestically but also globally. This commentary provides a E...
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 4d
だからサーキュラーエコノミー

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 5d
Put a third way, growing corn for ethanol to move combustion vehicles around uses ~100 times more land than making solar electricity to move electric vehicles around.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 5d
MUJI paradox: to work at or buy from MUJI you need to wear MUJI

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 5d
My best guess www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing....
Shocking moment boxer's hair piece falls off as he gets pummeled
The two were locked in a close exchange near the end of the round when Ibeh landed a sharp right hand that dislodged Miller's hairpiece. The crowd went crazy as it flapped loose.
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Philip Brasor @philipbrasor.bsky.social · 5d
Rental guarantor companies move to the front lines in the battle between landlords and tenants, taking casualties in the process. bit.ly/4t73jr7 #家賃保証会社
Hazard payments
On Jan. 15, two people were stabbed in front of a rental apartment in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward allegedly by the man who lived in the apartment. The two victims were part of a ten-person group wh…
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 6d
In January's Environmental and Resource Economics: in psychology, behaviours are less likely to fade when rewarded only sometimes. Salim Turdaliev, Yermone Sargsyan & Silvester van Koten offer evidence that intermittent reinforcement may help energy-saving persist. #EAERE
How Effective are Intermittent Energy Reports? Evidence from a Long-Term Behavioral Intervention in Energy Conservation - Environmental and Resource Economics
This paper examines the effectiveness of intermittent behavioral interventions in promoting residential energy conservation, focusing on the reintroduction of social comparison feedback after a…
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 6d
Great thread. I’m always curious about the fuel demands of these baths. To what extent were the Romans responsible for deforestation?

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 7d
Brilliant letter in The Economist from Professor Ian Wray
Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool
www.economist.com/letters/2026...