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Ireland has signed up to ambitious targets for diverting municipal solid waste from landfill. These targets are likely … household waste management behaviour in Ireland is scarce, and policymaking could benefit from improved data and market analysis …. In this paper we use data from the EPA and CSO to estimate econometric models of household waste collection in Ireland …
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On 21 December 2009 the Irish High Court found that a regulatory proposal, the Variation, by the four Dublin local authorities, is a breach of national competition law. The Variation allows a single operator to collect household waste, irrespective of whether the operator is selected by...
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Existing environmental accounts for the Republic of Ireland are at the national level. This is fine for continental and …
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We estimate Irish historical landfill quantities from 1960 -2008 and Irish methane emissions from 1968-2006. A model is constructed in which waste generation is a function of income, price of waste disposal and, household economies of scale. A transformation ratio of waste to methane is also...
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successfully increased real switching behaviour in a large sample of consumers in Ireland. …
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Ireland. We assess the impact of a hypothetical gas supply disruption in both winter and summer in 2008 (with observed market …. Ireland produces much of its electricity from natural gas and the loss of this electricity accounts for the majority of the … approximately 8 billion euro in economic losses. We also discuss some options to increase Ireland's security of supply, and find …
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The analysis of gas emissions by an input-output subsystem approach provides detailed insights into pollution generation in an economy by revealing the channels by which the environmental burdens are caused and transmitted throughout the production system. In this paper we propose a...
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We critically examine and empirically test the hypothesis that the strong socioeconomic gradients characterising attendance at arts events result from similar gradients in preferences for the arts, in line with existing theories of demand for the arts derived from orthodox consumer theory. To...
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This paper analyses the medium-term effects of a carbon tax on growth and CO2 emissions in Ireland, a small open … an enhanced (detrimental) effect on Ireland's competitiveness. …
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