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Exploring the short-run and long-run relationships between consumption of various sources of non-renewable energy, economic growth and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions would be considered as a golden key to provide rational energy policies of Iran in the post sanctions era. The aim of this paper...
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This paper focuses on air and water pollution in India’s cities, provides empirical evidence to demonstrate the … challenges, discusses relevant political economy issues related to introducing pollution taxes or other policies which are aimed …
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This paper explores empirically the impact of enforcement efforts on environmental compliance, focusing on the role of regulator reputation spillover effects. We find that, on the margin, the impact of a fine for water pollutant violations is about a two-thirds reduction in the statewide...
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of a two-thirds reduction by 2015. Yet, some countries and regions have achieved impressive reductions, Kerala in India …. We conclude that raising service levels across India toward the levels found in Kerala is a necessary step toward meeting …
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This dissertation treats the topic of environmentally unfriendly consumption behaviour in relation to air pollution and …) differences in the extent of pollution arising from environmentally friendlier vehicle use, and iii) the attitude of private … and behavioural factors determine the level of impact that private motorists have on urban air pollution. Also, it is …
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Probably the first experience of the human beings from the impact of air pollution might have taken place when they … built fires in poorly ventilated caves. Since then our planet Earth has suffered much from man-made pollution. Cashew nut … processing involves the hazards of both air pollution and indoor pollution; the former burns away our planet Earth and the latter …
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consequence of pollution through field studies and quantitative analysis. It is now accepted that the benefit from … industrialisation in a region needs to be examined against the perceived costs of increasing pollution and has to be carefully studied … methods, it is inferred from the study that the residents are quite aware of the problems caused by pollution from the present …
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aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
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In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
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