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Environmental taxation in China and Asia-Pacific : achieving environmental sustainability through fiscal policy

Kreiser, Lawrence A. (contributor) - 2011

Environmental Taxation in China and Asia-Pacific contains an integrated set of detailed chapters providing insights and analysis on how fiscal policy can be used to achieve environmental sustainability. Highly topical chapters include energy tax policy in China, environmental fiscal reform,...

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The impact of climate change on regional systems : a comprehensive analysis of California

Smith, Joel B. (contributor); … - 2006

Models are used to estimate potential physical and biological impacts, efficient adaptations, and residual damages from climate change. The contributors cover a broad array of climate change impacts on affected market sectors (including water supply, agriculture, coastal resources, timber, and...

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Valuing complex natural resource systems : the case of the Lagoon of Venice

Alberini, Anna (contributor); … - 2006

In complex natural resource systems, modifications or disruptions tend to affect many and diverse components of the ecological system, settlements and groups of people. This book uses the Lagoon of Venice-- a unique natural resource, wildlife habitat, centre of cultural heritage and recreational...

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Recent developments in trade and the environment

Copeland, Brian R. - 2014

technology transfer? Is the abatement achieved by unilateral pollution control offset by increased pollution elsewhere? The … competitiveness, evidence on the pollution haven hypothesis, effects of trade on the sustainability of renewable resources … (2009), 'Agglomeration Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis', Environmental and Resource …

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Global environmental change in alpine regions : recognition, impact, adaptation and mitigation

Steininger, Karl W. (ed.); Weck-Hannemann, Hannelore (ed.) - 2002

Mountain regions represent about one fourth of the earth's surface area and provide a significant share of goods and services to humanity. In this book, the authors demonstrate how alpine environments throughout the world are particularly vulnerable to global environmental change. Alpine...

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The Effects of Environmental Policy on the Performance of Environmental RIVs

Katsoulacos, Yannis - 1999

pollution are low. In this case RJVs fully share information and internalize the associated externality. However when the level …

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Climatic Constraints on Aggregate Economic Output

Burke, Marshall - 2019

Efficient responses to climate change require accurate estimates of both aggregate damages and where and to whom they occur. While specific case studies and simulations have suggested that climate change disproportionately affects the poor, large-scale direct evidence of the magnitude and...

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Pareto-Improving Carbon-Risk Taxation

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2020

Anthropogenic climate change produces two conceptually distinct negative economic externalities. The first is an expected path of climate damage. The second, which is this paper's focus, is an expected path of economic risk. To isolate the climate-risk problem, we consider mean-zero, symmetric...

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China's War on Pollution : Evidence from the First Five Years

Greenstone, Michael; He, Guojun; Li, Shanjun; Zou, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

pollution. This article describes the recent trends in air and water quality, with a focus on the five years since China … declared a "war on pollution" in 2014. It summarizes the emerging literature that has taken advantage of accompanying … pollution, and understand their social, economic, and health consequences …

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The Distribution of Environmental Damages

Hsiang, Solomon - 2017

empirical investigations. We apply our framework to findings related to the economic impact of air pollution, deforestation, and …

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