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Climate Change Adaptation, Development, and International Financial Support: Lessons from EU Pre-Accession and Solidarity Funds

Przyluski, Valentin; Hallegatte, Stéphane - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Funding adaptation requires adequate governance and there are different ways to organise and channel the funds to where it is most efficient and most necessary. This paper investigates this issue and studies the practical implementation of a development under conditionality, namely...

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Bio-Ecological Diversity vs. Socio-Economic Diversity: A Comparison of Existing Measures

Maignan, Carole; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Pinelli, Dino; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that...

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Abatement Technology and the Environment-Growth Nexus with Education

Pautrel, Xavier - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

used in the abatement sector determines the existence and the direction of the growth-effect. A tighter environmental tax …

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Pollution and the Efficiency of Urban Growth

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of … equilibrium, compared to the efficient urbanization path, if economic growth implies increasing aggregate emissions. If, on the … other hand, production becomes cleaner over time (`quality growth') the urbanization path approximates the efficient outcome …

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Environmental Policy, Education and Growth with Finite Lifetime: the Role of Abatement Technology

Pautrel, Xavier - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

(both the size and the “direction”) on the long-run growth driven by human capital accumulation à la Lucas (1988), when the …. decreases) the BGP rate of growth. When abatement services are produced with the final output, the environmental taxation does … not influence growth. …

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