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In the economic literature it is generally found that trade openness affects environment through various channels … examining the consequences of agricultural primary commodity export on population's health via physical environment degradation …
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We propose an ethical viewpoint based on the possibility of the realization of the worst-case scenario in order to reduce future generations risks in terms of discounting. Applied to the question of conservation of a renewable resource, we show that an economy, where the social planner takes...
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addressing here is: should uncertainty about future preferences lead to a more conservative attitude towards environment … environment than ours, but this result relies heavily on the assumption of a separability between consumption and environmental … (impatience, intertemporal flexibility, natural capacities of regeneration of the environment, relative preference for the …
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We consider an overlapping generations model with environment and an elastic labor supply. In this framework, consumers …
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the use of environmental services and so is a direct cause of environmental degradation. The environment is valued both as … marginal discount rate allows us to avoid the depletion of the environment. …
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The Kyoto Protocol, which came in force in February 2005, allows countries to resort to «supplementary activities» consisting particularly in carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. Existing papers studying the optimal carbon sequestration recognize the importance of the temporality of...
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The basic Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problem (VRSP) is described followed by an outline of solution approaches. Different variations of the basic VRSP are examined that involve the consideration of additional constraints or other changes in the structure of the appropriate model. An...
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Since 1992, the international community is trying to arrive at a multilateral agreement on the reduction of emissions for greenhouse gases. A collective decision mechanism was adopted in 1997: An agreement is ratified if and only if it is approved by a coalition gathering more than 55 countries....
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This paper considers potential use of domestic transferable, or tradable, permit systems for the purposes of travel management, especially reducing environmental nuisances. The main arguments for and against the use of permits are analyzed. Secondly two case studies of existing permit systems...
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This paper explores the spatial variation of land prices in Belgium. The originality of the methodology is threefold : (1) to work at the spatial extent of an entire country, (2) to compute several accessibility measures to all jobs and several representations of the environmental amenities and,...
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