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A Review of the Circular Economy and its Implementation
Heshmati, Almas - 2016
Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
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Air Pollution and Green Innovation
Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2023
With air pollution remaining a significant problem in many regions globally, an increasing number of environmentally conscious entrepreneurs have been taking initiatives to combat this issue, accompanied by a growing environmental awareness among the general public. To test the strength of this...
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For Want of a Cup : The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Mortality
Antman, Francisca - 2022
This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea … consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing … mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication strategies tying areas with lower initial water quality to larger …
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A Review of Renewable Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency Technologies
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2014
Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions have renewed the interest in the development of...
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Ecosystems and Human Health : The Local Benefits of Forest Cover in Indonesia
Garg, Teevrat - 2019
This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial...
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The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies
Garg, Teevrat - 2020
Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new industrial and infrastructure development following the creation of the new state of Uttarakhand. The...
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The Legacy Lead Deposition in Soils and its Impact on Cognitive Function in Preschool-Aged Children in the United States
Clay, Karen - 2019
Surface soil contamination has been long recognized as an important pathway of human lead exposure, and is now a worldwide health concern. This study estimates the causal effects of exposure to lead in topsoil on cognitive ability among 5-year-old children. We draw on individual level data from...
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Energy Consumption and Health Outcomes in Africa
Ben Youssef, Adel - 2016
We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy, greenhouse effect, and government expenditure per capita) for a sample of 16 African countries over the period 1971-2010 (according to availability of countries' data). We use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979859
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Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality : Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic
Clay, Karen - 2015
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects susceptibility to infectious disease. The empirical analysis combines the sharp timing of the pandemic with large cross-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014003
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Canary in a Coal Mine : Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution
Clay, Karen - 2016
the negative externalities of polluting activities, it is difficult to identify those who are harmed and those who benefit … intervention may emerge only when the negative externalities are significantly larger than the perceived benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993937