given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained … unprecedented growth and economic development-PRC and India became the second and fourth largest economies of the world … from US$341 in 1990 to US$4,421 in 2010 whereas India posted a four times growth from US$384 in 1990 to US$1,342 in 2010 …

This paper extends the classical exhaustible-resource/stock-pollution model with the irreversibility of pollution decay …. Within this framework, we answer the question how the potential irreversibility of pollution affects the extraction path. We … example. To sum up, for any pollution level, we can identify a critical resource stock such that there exist multiple optima i …

econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …

robust to a host of sensitivity tests. These results suggest that air pollution plays an important role in mediating the …

issues: climate change and biodiversity. Involvement of governments and a reference framework provided by intergovernmental …

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …