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We empirically test delinking of waste dynamics with regard to economic growth and the effectiveness of environmental and specific waste-related policies, by exploiting a newly constructed, integrated waste-economic-policy dataset based on official data for the EU15 for 1995-2007. We find that...
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flows of environmental goods, environmental policies, as well as innovation activities, all foster competitive advantages of … green exports. Public policies and private innovation patterns trigger higher efficiency in the production process, thus … debated at European Union level. -- Environmental Policies ; Porter Hypothesis ; Technological Innovation ; Export …
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a shift-share approach with spatial econometric modelling. We provide evidence of the role played by internal innovation …, innovation spillovers and regional policies in shaping the geographical distribution of environmental performance achievements …. -- Environmental Performance ; Technological Innovation ; Regional Spillovers ; Polluting Emissions ; Italian Regions …
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-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental … innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first phase of EU ETS has exerted some effects on environmental innovations by … instead to be weak: it drives innovation if we compare ETS and non ETS firms, but the stringency itself does not matter, due …
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This paper provides analyses of municipal waste generation and landfill diversion dynamics based on an 8-year panel dataset for Italy covering 103 provinces. Although absolute declining for waste generation is a long way off, there are some first signals of increasing relative delinking and...
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This paper analyses the process of delinking for landfilling trends embedding the dynamics in a frame where economic, geographical and policy variables enter the arena We aim at investigating in depth what main drivers may be responsible for such a phenomenon, and whether differences may be...
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Waste generation and waste disposal are issues that are becoming increasingly prominent in the environmental arena both from a policy perspective and in the context of delinking analysis. Waste generation is still increasing proportionally with income, and economic and environmental costs...
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This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional-national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case studies of Italy and the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome. Shift-share analyses provide evidence on the drivers of environmental efficiency and on sector...
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innovation and policy related factors may be the main driving force behind observed reductions. Services tend to present stronger …
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