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Horii, Ryo; Ikefuji, Masako - 2014

economic growth deteriorates the environment through increasing amounts of pollution, the deteriorated environment in turn …

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A comparison between sustainability frameworks : an integrated reading through ESG criteria for business strategies and enterprise risk management

Casciotti, Paola - 2023

Implementing the complex Agenda 2030, with its high global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires, in the by now short time horizon of reference, an extraordinary effort, at all institutionals and private levels, to converge effectively on the whole system of intermediate and interrelated...

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Institutions and the environment : existing evidence and future directions

Dasgupta, Shouro; De Cian, Enrica - 2016

In this review we synthetize the existing contributions that use econometric approaches to examine the influence of institutions and governance on environmental policy, environmental outcomes, and investments. The paper describes how the relationship between institutions and various response...

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Foreign demand and greenhouse gas emissions : empirical evidence with implications for leakage

Barrows, Geoffrey; Ollivier, Hélène - 2018

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A meta-analysis of the willingness to pay for reductions in pesticide risk exposure

Travisi, Chiara M.; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2004

The use of environmental policy instruments such as eco-labelling and pesticide taxes should preferably be based on disaggregate estimates of the individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for pesticide risk reductions. We review the empirical valuation literature dealing with pesticide risk exposure...

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Economic development and environmental protection

Galeotti, Marzio - 2003

scale of economic activity and the level of pollution. In particular, if we concentrate on local pollutants several … empirical studies have identified a bell shaped curve linking pollution to per capita GDP (in the case of global pollutants like … across pollutants) the turning point pollution starts to decline as income further increases. In analogy with the historic …

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Environment and economic growth : is technical change the key to decoupling?

Galeotti, Marzio - 2003

The relationship between economic growth and pollution is very complex, depending upon a host of different factors … must hold in order to obtain an inverted-U functional relationship between pollution and growth. These models are however …

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Local communities in front of big external investors : an opportunity or a risk?

Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - 2010

In the current age of trade and financial openness, local economies in developing countries are becoming increasingly exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide an insight into the interaction between external...

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Toxic exposure in America : estimating fetal and infant health outcomes

Agarwal, Nikhil; Banternghansa, Chanont; Bui, Linda T. M. - 2009

outcomes varies across pollution media: air pollution has a larger impact on health outcomes than either water or land. And …, within air pollution, releases of carcinogens are particularly problematic for infant health outcomes. We do not, however …

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Energy balance climate models, damage reservoirs and the time profile of climate change policy

Brock, William A.; Engstrom, Gustav; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 2012

A simplified energy balance climate model is considered with the global mean temperature as the state variable, and an endogenous ice line. The movements of the ice line towards the Poles are associated with damage reservoirs where initial damages are high and then eventually vanish as the ice...

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