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Quantifying the Ancillary Benefits of the Representative Concentration Pathways on Air Quality in Europe
Ščasný, Milan - 2016
This paper presents estimates of the economic benefit of air quality improvements in Europe that occur as a side effect of GHG emission reductions. We consider three climate policy scenarios that reach radiative forcing levels in 2100 of three Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). These...
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An Accidental Oil Spill Along the Belgian Coast : Results from a Cv Study
van Biervliet, Karl - 2013
This paper offers an economic assessment of the loss of non-use values resulting from different oil spill scenarios along the Belgian Coast. Estimation results show that if no oil spill prevention policy action is undertaken, a significant welfare loss may result. As a matter of fact, contingent...
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Getting Cars Off the Road : The Cost-Effectiveness of an Episodic Pollution Control Program
Cropper, Maureen; Jiang, Yi; Alberini, Anna; Baur, Patrick - 2014
Ground level ozone remains a serious problem in the United States. Because ozone non-attainment is a summer problem, episodic rather than continuous controls of ozone precursors are possible. We evaluate the costs and effectiveness of an episodic scheme that requires people to buy permits in...
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Effective Environmental Protection in the Context of Government Decentralization
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the economic reforms over the past three decades. This devolution of decision-making to local levels and enterprises has placed environmental stewardship in the hands of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129066
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The Benefits of Contaminated Site Cleanup Revisited : The Case of Naples and Caserta, Italy
Alberini, Anna - 2010
Guerriero and Cairns (2009) recently estimate that contaminated sites and improper waste management result in 848 … absence of estimates of the Value of a Prevented Fatality (VPF) in Italy or specific to the hazardous waste context, they use … specific to the hazardous waste context, and for causes of death that have been linked to contaminated site exposures. We …
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Breaking the Impasse in International Climate Negotiations : A New Direction for Currently Flawed Negotiations and a Roadmap for China to 2050
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China's unilateral pledge to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45 percent by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels raises both the stringency issue, and given that China's pledge is in the form of carbon intensity, reliability issues concerning China's statistics on energy and GDP. Moreover, as long as...
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Civil Liability, Safety and Nuclear Parks : Is Concentrated Management Better?
Mondello, Gerard - 2011
Ultra-hazardous risky activities as nuclear industry cannot be considered as “normal industries” i.e. industries without abnormal environmental and health risks. Consequently, the industrial organization of these specific sectors is of the utmost importance. This paper aims at studying this...
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Who Should Bear the Cost of China’s Carbon Emissions Embodied in Goods for Exports?
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2013
China's capital-intensive, export-oriented, spectacular economic growth since launching its open-door policy and economic reforms in late 1978 not only has created jobs and has lifted millions of the Chinese people out of poverty, but also has given rise to unprecedented environmental pollution...
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Carbon Abatement Leaders and Laggards Non Parametric Analyses of Policy Oriented Kuznets Curves
Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2014
We study the eventual structural differences of climate change leading ‘actors' such as Northern EU countries, and ‘lagging actors' - southern EU countries and the ‘Umbrella group' - with regard to long run (1960-2001) carbon-income relationships. Parametric and semi parametric panel...
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The Role of Information Provision as a Policy Instrument to Supplement Environmental Taxes : Empowering Consumers to Choose Optimally
Sartzetakis, Eftichios S. - 2014
The present paper examines, within a dynamic framework, the use of information provision as a policy instrument to supplement environmental taxation. We assume that at least a fraction of consumers do not posses the required information to make the optimal choices, and that their behavior at...
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