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Deforestation in the Himalayas: Myths and Reality

Baland, Jean Marie; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2014

Deforestation in developing and middle income countries is an urgent global problem, affecting climate change, soil … frequently dominated by widely held beliefs concerning the extent of deforestation (that it is large and growing over time), and … its impacts on local livelihoods (that these are adverse and large). Views concerning determinants of deforestation …

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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel

Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, Francois; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013

A longitudinal household survey from World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was used for the study. A …

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Land use change, fuel use and respiratory health in Uganda

Jagger, Pamela; Shively, Gerald - In: Energy Policy 67 (2014) C, pp. 713-726

and find that deforestation has a negative effect on total fuel consumed. We also find that access to forests, whether …. We find the inverse effect of increased reliance on crop residues. As deforestation reduces the availability of high …

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Unbelievable but True â€” Improved Cook-stoves are not Helpful in Reducing Firewood Demand in Nepal

Nepal, Mani; Nepal, Apsara; Grimsrud, Kristine - eSocialSciences - 2011

This paper analyzes the effect of different types of cook-stoves on firewood demand at the household level. Nationally representative household data from Nepal is used for the study. [SANDEE Working Paper No. 51 - 10].

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Valuation of Urban Air Pollution: A Case Study of Kanpur City in India

Gupta, Usha - eSocialSciences - 2006

This study estimates the monetary benefits to individuals from health damages avoided as a result on reductions in air pollution in the urban industrial city of Kanpur in India. A notable feature of this study is that it uses data from weekly health-diaries collected for three seasons. For...

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Morbidity Costs of Vehicular Air Pollution: Examining Dhaka City in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Tanzir; Imran, Mohammad - eSocialSciences - 2010

This study estimates the morbidity costs of reduction in air pollution in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, using the Cost-of-Illness (COI) approach. COI is defined as the sum of lost earnings due to workdays lost or restricted activity days and the mitigation expenditure borne due to illness....

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Response to comment on paper examining the feasibility of changing New York state's energy infrastructure to one derived from wind, water, and sunlight

Jacobson, Mark Z.; Howarth, Robert W.; Delucchi, Mark A.; … - In: Energy Policy 62 (2013) C, pp. 1212-1215

Jacobson et al. (2013, hereinafter J13), presented the technical and economic feasibility of converting New York States' all-purpose energy infrastructure (electricity, transportation, heating/cooling, industry) to one powered by wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) producing electricity and...

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Co-benefits? Not always: Quantifying the negative effect of a CO2-reducing car taxation policy on NOx emissions

Leinert, Stephan; Daly, Hannah; Hyde, Bernard; … - In: Energy Policy 63 (2013) C, pp. 1151-1159

With the current focus of policy action on climate change mitigation, it is important to investigate possible negative side effects of climate change policies on air pollutants. A 34% increase in CO2 emissions from private cars in Ireland over the period 2000–2008 prompted a change in private...

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Life cycle assessment as a policy-support tool: The case of taxis in the city of Madrid

Vedrenne, Michel; Pérez, Javier; Lumbreras, Julio; … - In: Energy Policy 66 (2014) C, pp. 185-197

This paper examined the potentialities of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as instrument for policy-support. To this respect, the adoption of an initiative within the Madrid Air Quality Plan (AQP) 2011–2015 regarding the substitution of diesel taxis with hybrid, natural gas and LPG alternatives was...

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Potential impact on air pollution from ambitious national CO2 emission abatement strategies in the Nordic countries – environmental links between the UNFCCC and the UNECE – CLRTAP...

Åström, Stefan; Tohka, Antti; Bak, Jesper; Lindblad, Maria - In: Energy Policy 53 (2013) C, pp. 114-124

This article presents results from a meta-study of Nordic low carbon dioxide (CO2) emission scenarios. The focus of the study was to explore possible environmental impacts if selected Nordic low CO2 emission scenarios were achieved by 2020. The impacts of concern were climate change,...

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