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This paper discusses the merits and limits of the recent European energy policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions, devoting particular attention to the European Trading System of carbon permits and to the measures that the European Union has adopted to promote renewable energy sources. From the...
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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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production. Production exhibits increasing returns to scale on aggregate. Urban environmental pollution, as a force that …
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This paper explores the trade-off between economic growth and environmental quality along two paradigms of endogenous growth theory: variety expansion (HIP) and quality improvements (VIP). We compare the policies that match the decentralised economies' paths with the optimal "strong sustainable"...
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use induces a pollution which is accentuated by the soil fragility. We show, at the steady state, that the environmental … tax induces a more conservative farmer behavior for soil, but in some cases it can exacerbate pollution. These effects can …
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Industrial pollution can have damaging effects on resource-based productive sectors. International trade creates …
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is that the EKC is examined in the presence of pollution as a by product of consumption activities; also, pollution is a … environment, consumers do not consider directly pollution in the maximization problem and are assumed to choose between two … that substitution of dirty consumption with clean consumption alone is not sufficient to reduce environmental pollution …
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In the last few years, several studies have found an inverted-U relationship between per capita income and environmental degradation. This relationship, known as the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), suggests that environmental degradation increases in the early stages of growth, but it...
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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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