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economic growth deteriorates the environment through increasing amounts of pollution, the deteriorated environment in turn …
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Implementing the complex Agenda 2030, with its high global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires, in the by now short time horizon of reference, an extraordinary effort, at all institutionals and private levels, to converge effectively on the whole system of intermediate and interrelated...
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environmental quality until the moment that pollution is great enough to make profitable the investment in R&D. After this turning …
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scale of economic activity and the level of pollution. In particular, if we concentrate on local pollutants several … empirical studies have identified a bell shaped curve linking pollution to per capita GDP (in the case of global pollutants like … across pollutants) the turning point pollution starts to decline as income further increases. In analogy with the historic …
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The relationship between economic growth and pollution is very complex, depending upon a host of different factors … must hold in order to obtain an inverted-U functional relationship between pollution and growth. These models are however …
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We propose a mixture model approach to identify locally optimal technologies and to dissect environmental productivity (output produced per unit of emission) into a technological and a managerial component. For a large sample of plants covered by the EU ETS, we find that the share of plants...
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As part of the CITI4GREEN project, this contribution analyzes the public interventions contained in Re-START "Territorial Resilience of the Central Apennines Earthquake Reconstruction'' assessing their impacts on the sustainability guidelines posed by the United Nations through the establishment...
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This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components, thus making it a complex concept to which multi...
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This paper proposes a new tool to assess sustainability and make the concept of sustainable development operational. It considers its multi-dimensional structure combining the information deriving from a selection of relevant sustainability indicators belonging to economic, social and...
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