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The European emission trading scheme and renewable energy policies: credible targets for incredible results?
Borghesi, Simone - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 3 (2011) 3, pp. 312-327
This paper discusses the merits and limits of the recent European energy policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions, devoting particular attention to the European trading system of carbon permits and to the measures that the European Union has adopted to promote renewable energy sources. From the...
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The iron fist vs. the invisible hand: interventionism and libertarianism in environmental economic discourses
Maymin, Philip Z.; Lim, Tai Wei - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 8 (2012) 3, pp. 358-374
Drawing from a broad range of sources, we define and discuss the two primary ways of contemplating issues related to environmental economics, namely, interventionism and libertarianism. We then interpret a cellular automaton as a model that allows for either approach, as well as anarchy, and...
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Introducing externalities in the power-generation sector of China
Kypreos, Socrates; Krakowski, Robert - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 22 (2004) 2/3/4, pp. 131-154
methods and incorporates partial equilibrium, endogenous technological change and external costs related to regional pollution …
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Case study: Lufthansa Cargo and their rights to fly over Russian territory
Sutton, Howard - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 7 (2011) 2, pp. 212-228
On 27 October 2007 the Russian Federation revoked Lufthansa Cargo's rights to fly over Russian territory. The withdrawal came as a surprise to Lufthansa Cargo and shortly after the dispute started it evolved from an economic to a political conflict which awoke international interest. The...
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Sustainability and automobility among the elderly: An international assessment
Rosenbloom, Sandra - In: Transportation 28 (2001) 4, pp. 375-408
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Ex Post Evaluation of Mitigation Measures in the Samalayuca II and Monterrey III Thermal Power Generation Projects Title: Evaluación ex-post de las medidas de mitigación en los pro...
González, Verónica - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This evaluation conducts an ex post review of the mitigation measures in the Samalayuca II and Monterrey III thermal power generation projects in Mexico. In general, it can be concluded that both thermoelectric power plants took into account most of the environmental impacts and mitigation...
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A Plastics Index for the Food Services Industry
Ebersole, Jon - In: Academica Turistica - Tourism and Innovation Journal 5 (2012) 2, pp. 5-18
Sustainability is an increasingly powerful slogan for environmental consciousness in business and commerce. For all its benefits in enabling our current living standards, the use of plastic has proven to cause significant health and environmental damage. For the tourism industry, food services...
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Optimal environmental benefits of utilising alternative energy technologies in Jordan
Mrayyan, Bassam - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 21 (2004) 4, pp. 352-367
pollution and economic difficulties. Therefore, the need for utilising renewable energy resources has emerged. Although Jordan …
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Does Democratization Benefit the Environment in the Long-Run in the Presence of Inequality?
Drosdowski, Thomas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2006
Political economy may provide an important link between inequality and pollution. This paper studies the dynamic … relationship between inequality and redistributive policy leading to differing transitional paths of pollution to the steady state …, using a pollution-augmented framework developed by Benabou and employing numerical simulations. The results indicate that …
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Preface
Gollier, Christian - Princeton University Press
Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and polluted land, air, and water. All these environmental problems raise the crucial challenge...
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