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, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …
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potentially refutable predictions on abatement costs, pollution levels, or emission intensities …
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relationship has been called the out a simple and straight-forward static model of the microfoundations of the pollution …
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measures of air pollution. Statistical significance is lacking for Particulate Matter, but is moderate for NO2, and high for SO …
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: concentrations of urban air pollution; measures of the state of the oxygen regime in river basins; concentrations of fecal …
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industrialization. Will pollution continue to increase without bound as more and more countries pass through the development phase or …-regulating' in the sense that as income increases, pollution controls also increase. However, this intuition is somewhat misleading … rate of development of the economy through market interactions and the extent of pollution regulation through collective …
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We study a growth model with an environmental asset which is a source of utility and an input to consumption and production. The stock of this asset follows its own ecological dynamics, which are affected by economic activity. We study the implications of an approach to ranking sequences of...
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This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half … century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second …, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends. Third, much of the regulation of air and drinking water pollution has …
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This paper sets out a theory of how openness to international goods markets affects pollution concentrations. We … develop a theoretical model to divide trade's impact on pollution into scale, technique, and composition effects and then … examine this theory using data on sulfur dioxide concentrations when it alters the composition, and hence the pollution …
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Long before economics turned to psychology, environmentalists were nudging and framing and pushing their cause like highly gifted amateur psychologists. Their interventions seem to have changed behavior by altering beliefs, norms and preferences, but because psychological interventions are often...
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