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The cleaning up costs after closure of chemical or nuclear plants are large. They have to be taken into account in the production costs and in the pricing of the corporate, owner of such plants. Moreover, it is necessary to create a reserve account to cover these future large and long term...
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level and try to raise it, which will cause an increase in pollution. The model is particularly relevant for the study of … conspicuous consumption which generally is subject to concentrated advertising efforts while it generates considerable pollution … derive optimal rules for a pollution tax, a subsidy or tax on advertising, and information provision by the government. The …
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(final good) is not. Pollution is regulated by tradable emission permits. The issue is to see whether the optimal growth path … can be replicated in equilibrium with pollution permits, given that some permits must be issued free of charge for the …
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papers that have a dichotomous approach and consider either the atmospheric pollution (first source of marginal disutility …) or the underground pollution ( second source), we consider the problem as a whole: CCS techniques introduce a third …
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This paper examines the role played by community characteristics in influencing local exposure to toxic releases, focusing specifically on ethnic fractionalization and polarisation. In contrast to the previous literature, this study argues that it is the fractionalization and/or polarisation of...
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We analyze the use of life cycle assessment (LCA) as a regulatory tool using biofuel regulations as an illustrative example. A regulatory context calls for a consequential LCA (CLCA) of a policy as opposed to an attributional LCA (ALCA) of a product. In performing CLCA, issues of scale, price...
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(final good) is not. Pollution is regulated by tradable emission permits. The issue is to see whether the optimal growth path … can be replicated in equilibrium with pollution permits, given that some permits must be issued free of charge for the …
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Most of the international environmental agreements that have been signed in the past to resolve transboundary pollution … transboundary pollution problem, we compare the relative efficiency of these two second-best agreements in the case of quasi …
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