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In this study we estimate the passive use value of forest in different ecological zones in the Mediterranean region. We … hectare for each country. The total annual amount of passive use value of the Mediterranean forest is about one billion … international dollars. The estimated passive use value of the forest from this study can be used to account for the social welfare …
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hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified …
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that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution …
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This article investigates the influence of environmental policy on growth assuming that the channel of transmission relies on the link between pollution, health and the survival probability, in an overlapping generations model à la Blanchard (1985) where growth is driven by a mechanism à la...
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shows that, depending on the relative damage inflicted by the two industries on the environment, it is possible that the …
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&Gas industry and its links with the energy sector and the environment. In the next decade oil companies will have to deal with …
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Since oil is a non-renewable resource with a high environmental impact, and its most common use is to produce combustibles for electricity, reliable methods for modelling electricity consumption can contribute to a more rational employment of this hydrocarbon fuel. In this paper we apply the...
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In a two-period overlapping generations model, this paper demonstrates that the relationship between the environmental taxation and the economic activity (level- and growth-output) becomes inverted-U shaped, when the detrimental impact of pollution on health and the private decision of each...
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This article studies how demography affects the outcome of the environmental policy in a macro-economic perspective, incorporating age-earning profiles in an OLG model à la Blanchard (1985) to capture the age structure effect of the demographic shocks. It first demonstrates, conversely to...
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, increases social welfare and has no effect on the environment. On the other hand, an increase of VAT rates on tourism …
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