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Oil spills are a major cause of environmental concern, in particular for Europe. However, the traditional approach to the evaluation of the expected external costs of these accidents fails to take into full account the implications of their probabilistic nature. By adapting a methodology...
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This paper investigates how the ownership and the procedure for the selection of firms operating in the local public transport sector affect their productivity. In order to compare different institutional regimes, we carry out a comparative analysis of 72 companies operating in large European...
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This paper is the first to assess operational and probabilistic externalities of oil extraction and transportation to Europe on the basis of a comprehensive evaluation of realistic future oil demand-supply scenarios, of the relative relevance of import routes, of the local specificities in terms...
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We offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one … economic and technological developments. We include the possibility of emissions reduction from bio energy (BE), carbon capture …
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that could drive future energy demand and, if unconstrained, emissions. This paper uses a multi-model comparison to … energy use and emissions. We show that affluence is only one face of the medal and the range of future emissions is also … contrast, climate intensity varies less with economic growth and it is mostly driven by climate policy. African emissions could …
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Analyzing the risks of anthropogenic climate change requires sound probabilistic projections of CO2 emissions. Previous … aggregated observations of population size, economic output, and CO2 emissions over the last three centuries into a simple … economic model. We use this model to derive probabilistic projections of business-as-usual CO2 emissions to the year 2150. We …
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This study compares the environmental impacts of urban public transport and automobiles (energy use, emissions, noise …
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A simple method to delineate the recharge areas of a series of springs draining a fractured aquifer is presented. Instead of solving the flow and transport equations, the delineation is reformulated as a mass balance problem assigning arable land in proportion to the pesticide mass discharged...
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More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow frontier, speculative behaviour and boom-bust all share the prediction that livestock production will remain largely extensive. Yet between 1996 and 2006 productivity of cattle...
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Taking as given that we are consuming too much and that overconsumption leads to environmental degradation, the present paper examines the regulator's choices between informative advertisement and consumption taxation. We model overconsumption by considering individuals that care about social...
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