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Traditionally, water policy has focused on coordinating the public effort required to fuel economic growth by supplying water services demanded as a result of the progress in the many areas of the economy. Under this supply-oriented paradigm, population growth and the improvement of living...
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precise representation of energy and technology choices with a coherent representation of the macro-economic impacts …, especially in terms of trade effects of climate policies on energy-intensive products. In climate mitigation scenarios, drastic … economy. Energy-intensive industries tend to be delocalized in regions where low-carbon production is feasible and cheap, or …
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This paper investigates the relationship between energy intensity in the 12 countries of Eastern Europe that can be … capita income gap between developed and transition economies leads to a decrease in the energy intensity growth rate of a … that are allowed to vary across countries: ?, the elasticity of desired energy intensity with respect to the per capita …
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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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Energy-based economic development (EBED) can provide economic, social and environmental benefits related to national …
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This paper describes the energy sector in the Mediterranean and MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries. It first … analyses the production of energy by fossil and renewable sources and discusses the increasing demand in the area and its … consequences. It describes the policy frameworks to promote renewable energy as well as fossil-fuel subsidies, which are still …
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This paper analyses futures prices for four energy commodities (light sweet crude oil, heating oil, gasoline and …
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This paper argues that the so-called Arab spring is part of a tectonic shift which signals the frailty of the Arab state system as such. Countries benefitting from oil and gas rents have been more resilient, because of their potential to create systems of incentives and disincentives in order to...
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energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the key to meeting its proposed carbon intensity target in 2020 and …-based instruments, insufficient government-enterprise interactions, excessive budget dependence on land concession, increasing … difficulty in further carbon mitigation, inevitable emissions growth due to rising living standards, and coal-dominant energy …
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a factor of production, such as energy, generates an environmental externality in the form of CO2 emissions which is not …
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