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Ground Water Pollution and Emerging Environmental Challenges of Industrial Effluent Irrigation : A Case Study of Mettupalayam Taluk, Tamilnadu
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Nelliyat, Prakash - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Industrial disposal of effluents on land and subsequent pollution of groundwater and soil of surrounding farmlands is a … effluents on land, which has limited capacity to assimilate the pollution load, has led to groundwater pollution. Ground water … groundwater fo irrigation has resulted in increased salt conent of soils. In some locations drinking water wells (deep bore wells …
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Estimation of Marginal Abatement Cost of Air Pollution in Durgapur City of West Bengal
Mukhopadhyay, Kakali; Bhattacharya, Souvik - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Air pollution in industrial cities with emissions from firms is a growing problem in India. Durgapur, one of the growing industrial cities in eastern India, covering a host of industries, suffers from similar problems. The paper estimates the marginal abatement cost of air pollution of...
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Factors Determining Public Demand for Safe Drinking Water (A Case Study of District Peshawar)
Ahmad, Iftikhar; Haq, Miraj ul; Sattar, Abdul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Overtime per capita water availability in the world as well as in Pakistan has been declining. Water sources have depleted and become polluted therefore, now water has become a scarce good. Resultantly, the inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene are rooting major environmental...
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Delegation and Emission Tax in a Differentiated Oligopoly
Pal, Rupayan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper examines how product differentiation as well as strategic managerial delegation affects optimal emission tax rate, environmental damage and social welfare, under alternative modes of product market competition. It shows that, under pure profit maximization, the (positive) optimal...
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Does partial privatization improve the environment?
Pal, Rupayan; Saha, Bibhas - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper shows that, in case of differentiated products mixed duopoly, environmental damage increases (decreases) with the level of privatization, if the level of privatization is less (more) than certain level. It also shows that partial privatization is optimal from the social welfare point...
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Developing Asia’s Competitive Advantage in Green Products : Learning from the Japanese Experience
Iino, Fukuya; Lim, Alva - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Right now, governments around the world are spending record amounts of money to kick- start their economies in response to the financial crisis. Fortunately, a great opportunity exists for this fiscal stimulus to be directed towards green economic growth, which can not only provide the new...
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Information Disclosure Strategies for Green Industries
Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam; Qwanruedee; Chotichanathawewong; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Environmental information disclosure strategies, which involve corporate attempts to increase the availability of information on pollution and emissions, can become a basis for a new wave of environmental protection policy that follows and has the potential to complement traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653153
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Information Disclosure Strategies for Green Industries
Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam; Qwanruedee; Chotichanathawewong; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Environmental information disclosure strategies, which involve corporate attempts to increase the availability of information on pollution and emissions, can become a basis for a new wave of environmental protection policy that follows and has the potential to complement traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653178
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Climate Change Mitigation and Green Growth in Developing Asia
Howes, Stephen; Wyrwoll, Paul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Developing Asia is the driver of today’s emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflecting this global reality and a range of related domestic issues, the governments of...
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Services as a New Engine of Growth for ASEAN, the People’s Republic of China, and India
Shepherd, Ben; Pasadilla, Gloria - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Development of a vibrant and competitive services sector is a key characteristic of modern economies. In the developed world, services frequently account for two-thirds or three-quarters of all economic activity. The transition from agriculture through manufacturing to a services...
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