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Copenhagen and beyond : reflections on China's stance and responses
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010 - This version: March 2010
China had been singled out by Western politicians and media for dragging its feet on international climate negotiations … paper provides some reflections on China's stance and reactions at Copenhagen. While China's reactions are generally well … rooted because of realities at home, some reactions could have been handled more effectively for a better image of China. The …
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Urban sprawl and air quality in European cities: an empirical assessment
Cappelli, Federica; Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano - 2021
In this paper we estimate the relationship between urban sprawl and a measure of air quality, namely the number of days in which the PM10 concentration exceeds safeguard limits in European Union cities. Building on a multidimensional representation of sprawl, the paper employs several indicators...
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Urban transport policies and the environment : evidence from Italy
Percoco, Marco (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003546343
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Quantifying the ancillary benefits of the representative concentration pathways on air quality in Europe
Šcasný, Milan; Massetti, Emanuele; Melichar, Jan; … - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348896
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Quantifying COVID-19's silver lining : avoided deaths from air quality improvements in Bogotá
Blackman, Allen; Bonilla, Jorge A.; Villalobos, Laura - 2021
In cities around the world, Covid-19 lockdowns have improved outdoor air quality, in some cases dramatically. Even if only temporary, these improvements could have longer-lasting effects on policy by making chronic air pollution more salient and boosting political pressure for change. To that...
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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution
Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Mahecha, John Gomez; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390028
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Empirical analysis of national income and SO 2 emissions in selected European countries
Markandya, Anil; Pedroso, Suzette; Golub, Alexander - 2004
Data on GDP per capita and sulfur emissions for twelve European countries were analyzed to determine the relationship between emissions and income in these countries. As a whole, the relationship between sulfur emissions and per capita income is a fourth order polynomial and not a quadratic one...
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The consequences of miscarriage on parental investments
Bütikofer, Aline; Coy, Deidre; Doyle, Orla; Ginja, Rita - 2024
Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian registry data, we exploit the random nature of single, early miscarriages to examine the impact of pregnancy loss on parental investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy...
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Parental investments and intra-household inequality in child human capital : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment
Giannola, Michele - 2022 - This version: July 2022
Intra-household inequality explains up to 50 percent of the cross-sectional variation in child human capital in the … well as study the role of household resources. I find that parents are driven by efficiency considerations rather than …
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Do social relations affect economic welfare? : a microeconomic empirical analysis
Degli Antoni, Giacomo (contributor) - 2007
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