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A review of the circular economy and its implementation
Heshmati, Almas - 2015
Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449209
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Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics : opportunities and challenges
Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - 2018
externalities, treatment of one unit often affects other units. To explore the implications of applying standard quasi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906389
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An empirical survey of the ramifications of a green economy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339613
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Glyphosate use in agriculture and birth outcomes of surrounding populations
Dias, Mateus; Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2019
productivity from adoption of genetically modified soybeans and look at externalities across municipalities sharing the same water … externality effects of glyphosate use on populations distant from the original locations of use, but receiving water from these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980430
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Air pollution and green innovation
Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2023
With air pollution remaining a significant problem in many regions globally, an increasing number of environmentally conscious entrepreneurs have been taking initiatives to combat this issue, accompanied by a growing environmental awareness among the general public. To test the strength of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014316830
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Water tariffs and consumers' inaction
Ornaghi, Carmine; Tonin, Mirco - 2018
We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844885
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A review of renewable energy supply and energy efficiency technologies
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas; Altmann, Jörn - 2014
Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions have renewed the interest in the development of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350361
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For want of a cup: the rise of tea in England and the impact of water quality on mortality
Antman, Francisca M. - 2022
This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea … consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing … mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication strategies tying areas with lower initial water quality to larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805554
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Energy consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions in Middle East and North African countries
Arouri, Mohamed; Youssef, Adel Ben; M'henni, Hatem; … - 2012
This article extends the recent findings of Liu (2005), Ang (2007), Apergis et al. (2009) and Payne (2010) by implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534047
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Pollution, infectious disease, and mortality : evidence from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2015
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects susceptibility to infectious disease. The empirical analysis combines the sharp timing of the pandemic with large cross-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired...
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