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Environmentally adjusted multifactor productivity : Accounting for renewable natural resources and ecosystem services
Cárdenas Rodríguez, Miguel - 2023
Multifactor productivity is a comprehensive measure of productivity where the underlying production function accounts for multiple factor inputs, traditionally labour and produced capital. While single-factor productivity is intuitively simple, such measure offers a biased picture of the economy...
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Natural Capital Considerations for an Extension of the U.S. Marine Economy Satellite Account
Wielgus, Jeffrey; Grasso, Mônica; Colgan, Charles S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In an effort to measure and track marine-dependent economic activities, the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has developed two statistical tools: The Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) and the Marine Economy Satellite Account (MESA). In both efforts, the...
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Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Hanna, Rema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271429
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The causal relationship between renewable electricity generation and GDP growth: A study of energy sources
Ohler, Adrienne; Fetters, Ian - In: Energy Economics 43 (2014) C, pp. 125-139
(biomass, geothermal, hydroelectric, solar, waste, and wind) across 20 OECD countries over 1990 to 2008. The results from a … real GDP, (b) biomass, hydroelectricity, waste, and wind energy exhibit a positive long-run relationship with GDP, (c …) hydroelectricity and waste generation exhibit a short-run positive bidirectional relationship with GDP growth, and (d) biomass …
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Biomass Sequestration, Energy, and Global Change
Sedjo, Roger A. - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 4 (2011) 3-4, pp. 355-386
Biomass offers an alternative renewable energy source to fossil fuels and can be used to produce energy directly or … through the production of liquid biofuels, e.g., ethanol, as a substitute for liquid transport fuels. Biomass also offers a … some cases, e.g., forests, there is a tension between biomass energy and biomass sequestration of carbon. This paper …
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Forecast assumption and analysis of the development of protective afforestation in the Volgograd region
Kulik, K. N.; Barabanov, A. T.; Manaenkov, A. S.; … - In: Studies on Russian economic development : the official … 28 (2017) 6, pp. 641-647
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Regulatory Transparency in Multilateral Agreements Controlling Exports of Tropical Timber, E-Waste and Conflict Diamonds
Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de …; … - 2012
Export restrictions can be problematic if trading partners question either their conformity with international obligations or their possibly unintended negative impacts on others. Regulatory transparency can help. This paper examines how three multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011007559
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A generalized impure public good and linear characteristics model of green consumption
Chan, Nathan W.; Kotchen, Matthew J. - In: Resource and Energy Economics 37 (2014) C, pp. 1-16
This paper provides a general framework for understanding consumer behavior related to goods and services that may be considered environmentally friendly, ethically produced, fairly traded, or some combination thereof. We generalize the impure public good model and derive its comparative static...
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The Implementation of the Korean Green Growth Strategy in Urban Areas
Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Grazi, Fabio; Joo, Jongwan; … - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2011
This report on the Korean Strategy for Green Growth and its implementation in urban areas assesses the contributions of sub-national governments to Korea's National Strategy for Green Growth and identifies the main challenges for effective implementation at the local level. Korea's economy,...
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Cities and Green Growth: A Conceptual Framework
Hammer, Stephen; Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Robert, Alexis; … - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2011
This report examines the current state of knowledge about green growth in cities and outlines the key research questions and protocols that will guide the OECD Green Cities programme. It builds the case for an urban green growth agenda by examining the economic and environmental conditions that...
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