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Convery, Frank J.; McDonnell, Simon; Ferreira, S. - 2007

2002 Ireland introduced a 15 Euro cent tax on plastic shopping bags, previouslyprovided free of charge to customers at …

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Taxes and Tradable Permits As Instruments for Controlling Pollution; Theory and Practice

Norregaard, John; Reppelin-Hill, Valérie - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This paper examines the relative merits of two dominant economic instruments for reducing pollution—”green” taxes and tradable permits. Theoretically, the two instruments share many similarities, and on balance, neither seems preferable to the other. In practice, however, most countries...

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Disposal is not free : fiscal instruments to internalize the environmental costs of solid waste

Matheson, Thornton - 2019

This paper provides an overview of global solid waste generation, its environmental costs, and fiscal instruments that can be used to encourage waste reduction and finance proper disposal. Countries-especially island nations--struggle to manage an ever-increasing volume of solid waste,...

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Comment on “The spreading of disorder”

Torgler, Benno - 2010

Keizer, Lindenberg and Steg (2008) conduct six interesting field experiments and report that their results provide evidence of the broken windows theory. Such an analysis is highly relevant as the (broken windows) theory is both controversial and lacking empirical support. Keizer et al.’s key...

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The Circular Economy

Fullerton, Don - 2024

Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...

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Avoided Greenhouse Gas Emissions when Forest Products substiturte Competing Materials-Effect on Carbon Account and Optimal Forest Management A Case Study of Hedmark County in Norway

Petersen, Ann Kristin; Gobakken, Terje; Hoen, Hans Fredrik - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 40

related to forests (living trees, dead trees, litter, soil, materials substitution, and energy substitution). The paper has …

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Determinants of Littering: An Experimental Analysis

Khawaja, Fatima Salim; Shah, Anwar - In: The Pakistan Development Review 52 (2013) 2, pp. 157-168

Littering, the improper disposal of small quantities of waste, is one of the main causes of environmental degradation. To protect the environment from this degradation, we need to factor out the determinants of littering behaviour. In this study, we conduct a controlled laboratory experiment to...

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Spatial heterogeneity of willingness to pay for forest management

Czajkowski, Mikołaj; Budziński, Wiktor; Campbell, Danny; … - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2015

The paper investigates spatial heterogeneity of the public’s preferences for the implementation of a new country-wide forest management and protection program in Poland. Spatial econometric methods and high resolution geographical information system (GIS) data related to forest characteristics...

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An Approach to Litter Generation and Littering Practices in a Mexico City Neighborhood

Muñoz-Cadena, Cecilia E.; Lina-Manjarrez, Pedro; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 8, pp. 1733-1754

Urban litter is generated by human societies everywhere. Some litter is recyclable waste. In this study, the acronym …, generators’ perceptions, and quantification of RMSW in streets were examined in a Mexico City neighborhood, where litter presence … 42% said they did not generate this kind of waste. Laziness, lack of vigilance by municipal authorities, no litter bins …

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The Economics of Recycling Heterogeneity

Fullerton, Don; Kinnaman, Thomas - 2024

This paper summarizes the economics perspective on recycling of municipal solid waste. The first section reviews recent data on recycling rates in the United States and across all OECD countries. The OECD data suggest the average aggregate recycling rate across member countries appears to have...

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