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Green cities? : urbanization, trade and the environment
Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2015
This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283185
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What matters for environmental quality in the Next-11 countries : economic growth or income inequality?
Padhan, Hemachandra; Haouas, Ilham; Sahoo, Bhagaban; … - 2018
This study uses 1971-2013 panel data to explore the implications of growth, wealth disparities and energy consumption on carbon emissions in a sample of Next-Eleven (N-11) countries. It uses modern econometric techniques to highlight a long-run interplay between selected variables in the carbon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816704
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Greener fleet, cleaner air : how Low Emission Zones reduce pollution
Aydin, Eren; Gehrsitz, Markus; Traxler, Christian - 2024
implementation of stage 1 and 2 LEZs, which banned the most pollution-intensive vehicles from city centers, significantly reduced PM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582278
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Does access to health care mitigate environmental damages?
Mullins, Jamie T.; White, Corey D. - 2019
Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in the health effects of environmental exposure, yet little causal evidence exists to support such claims. We test this hypothesis by utilizing exogenous variation in both access to health care and environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129825
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013
ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229929
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Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children?
Lockwood, Ben; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022
Are 'green' environmental concerns - about climate change, biodiversity, pollution - deterring today's citizens from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414750
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Greenhouse gas mitigation and price-driven growth in a Solow-Swan economy with an environmental limit
Burda, Michael C.; Zessner-Spitzenberg, Leopold - 2024
The existence of an environmental limit in the Solow-Swan economy changes the nature of economic growth, but does not preclude it. When atmospheric greenhouse gases reach a predetermined absolute threshold, further growth requires a permanently expanding, resource-intensive mitigation effort. If...
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What they don’t teach you about Artificial Intelligence at business school : stagnation, oil, and war
Naudé, Wim - 2024
world of ceaseless innovation is drummed into students. Third, little is discussed about AI's scaling problem - it faces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015064440
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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well-being of markets, in which promoting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803715
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Financial development, environmental quality, trade and economic growth : what causes what in MENA countries
Omri, Anis; Daly, Saida; Rault, Christophe; Chaibi, Anissa - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using simultaneous-equation panel data models for a panel of 12 MENA countries over the period 1990-2011. Our results indicate that there is evidence of bidirectional causality between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488272