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Globalization and the environment : risk assessment and the WTO

Kellow, Aynsley J. (contributor); … - 2001

One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with:...

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The economics of pollution havens

Fullerton, Don (ed.) - 2006

A pollution haven may arise if environmental stringency differs between countries, when capital is mobile, and when …, how those flows affect pollution, prices, and incomes, and finally how all of these last considerations feed back into … pollution policies, how local environmental rules respond to those location decisions, and how trade liberalization affects the …

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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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Environmental costs and liberalization in European air transport : a welfare economic analysis

Schipper, Youdi - 2001

noise pollution and emissions, not to mention the reduction of profits that often accompany market liberalization. In the …

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Green accounting in Europe : a comparative study, volume 2

Markandya, Anil (contributor); … - 2005

Using spatially desegregated data on measures of pollution to derive economic damage estimates, the main purpose of the … caused by ambient air pollution and the cost of defensive expenditures. They also present the results of the analysis and …

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Trade and environment : theory and policy in the context of EU enlargement and transition economic

Maxwell, John W. (contributor); Reuveny, Rafael (contributor) - 2005

The debate about how best to manage the interplay between trade, industrialization and the impacts of both on the global environment continues to rage, particularly in the context of the introduction and ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. This book deals with a number of important issues...

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Technological change and the environmental imperative : challenges to the copper industry

Brundenius, Claes (contributor) - 2003

Technological Change and the Environmental Imperative considers the extent of the success of polluting industries in becoming cost-efficient whilst acquiring less polluting technologies, in the face of fierce competition. The authors also discuss what has been the impact of privatisation on this...

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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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Innovation in environmental policy : economic and legal aspects of recent developments in environmental enforcement and liability

Tietenberg, Thomas H. (ed.) - 1992

This important new book is an indispensable guide to the development and implementation of environmental policy. It presents authoritative analyses and state-of-the-art summaries which will be essential both to scholars and practitioners trying to keep abreast of the most recent developments in...

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Environmental problems in the shortage economy : the legacy of Soviet environmental policy

Åhlander, Ann-Mari Sätre - 1994

Environmental Problems in the Shortage Economy is one of the first books to analyse environmental disruption under the Soviet economic system. Using original Soviet data the author shows that considerable damage has been done to the environment and that measures which were intended to protect it...

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