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With the growing global awareness of the requirement for sustainable development, economic development is no longer the sole objective of business activities. The need to find a balance between environmental impacts and economic benefits is especially the case for airport operations in or around...
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More than a hundred hydropower dams have already been built in the Amazon basin and numerous proposals for further dam … and sediment plume. We introduce a Dam Environmental Vulnerability Index to quantify the current and potential impacts of …
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More than a hundred hydropower dams have already been built in the Amazon basin and numerous proposals for further dam … and sediment plume. We introduce a Dam Environmental Vulnerability Index to quantify the current and potential impacts of …
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A sound empirical and quantitative analysis on the relationship between different patterns of urban expansion and the environmental or social costs of mobility is rare, and the few studies available provide at best a qualitative discussion of these issues. Some recent tentative studies on the...
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This paper explores the welfare consequences of international outsourcing in the presence of resulting environmental damage in a three-stage model of North-South trade. In stage 1, outsourcing firms in the North (e.g., United States [US] and Europe) cause environmental damage to the vendor...
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cultural/heritage injuries caused by the Fundão (tailings) Dam failure in Brazil in 2015. While the valuation literature …. The flooding and the release of tailings from the dam failure led to injuries to sediments, watercourse opacity, and …/heritage injury ever caused by a single tailings dam collapse. The study followed state-of-the-art recommendations for the development …
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This paper analyses the macroeconomic costs of environmental regulation in European energy markets on the basis of existing macroeconomic simulation studies. The analysis comprises the European emssion trading scheme, energy taxes, measures in the transport sector, and the promotion of renewable...
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The belief that stringent climate policies are very costly is widespread among political decision-makers and the public. The Trump administration stressed the cost argument as the motivation for the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement. However, such judgements ignore the economic...
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