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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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Willingness to pay for carbon mitigation : field evidence from the market for carbon offsets
Rodemeier, Matthias - 2023
What do markets for voluntary climate protection imply about people's valuations of en- vironmental protection? I study this question in a large-scale field experiment (N=255,000) with a delivery service, where customers are offered carbon offsets that compensate for emissions. To estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545793
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464116
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Understanding climate damages: consumption versus investment
Casey, Gregory; Fried, Stephie; Gibson, Matthew - 2021
Existing climate-economy models use aggregate damage functions to model the effects of climate change. This approach assumes climate change has equal impacts on the productivity of firms that produce consumption and investment goods or services. We show the split between damage to consumption...
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Why do relatively few economists work on climate change? : a survey
Pestel, Nico; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021
Climate change is sometimes viewed as the most serious problem facing modern society. The science behind anthropogenic global warming has been understood for more than half a century. Yet relatively few economists work on topics related to climate change. What explains this (apparent) lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705415
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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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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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Winter is coming : the long-run effects of climate change on conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat; Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - 2017
This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596150
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Payment for ecosystem services from forests
Alix Garcia, Jennifer M.; Wolff, Hendrik - 2014
rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356967