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India’s urban environment: air and water pollution and pollution abatement
Sridhar, Kala S.; Kumar, Surender - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper focuses on air and water pollution in India’s cities, provides empirical evidence to demonstrate the seriousness of the challenges, discusses the relevant policies of national and local government that are used to address the challenges, discusses relevant political economy issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260859
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Regulator reputation, enforcement, and environmental compliance
Shimshack, Jay P.; Ward, Michael B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680315
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Enforcement and over-compliance
Shimshack, Jay P.; Ward, Michael B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Economists generally view environmental enforcement as a tool to secure compliance with regulations. This paper demonstrates that credible enforcement significantly increases statutory over-compliance with regulations as well. We find that many plants with discharges typically below legally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684901
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The anthropogenic influence on Cuejdi River water quality
Ghiurca, Ana-Andreea; Lamasanu, Andreea; Mihai, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Water pollution is caused in rural areas, especially by uncontrolled waste deposits located in river bed and in urban areas is discharged, irregular, untreated sewage. The Cuejdiu River is a tributary of the Bitriţa River in the left side, with a total length of 24 km. Evaluation of water...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130324
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Joint implementation: sacrifices or opportunities for China?
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
AIJ/JI remains virtually unknown to the majority of social and economic sectors in China as in most developing countries …, it is still unrealistic to expect that AIJ/JI projects with China work as smoothly and fast as the developed countries … wish. This underlines the need to promote JI through pilot projects in China's interest and capacity building in China in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789242
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Is it fair to treat China as a Christmas tree to hang everybody’s complaints? putting its own energy saving into perspective
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
China has been the world’s second largest carbon emitter for years. Recent studies show that China had overtaken the U ….S. as the world’s largest emitter in 2007. This has put China on the spotlight, just at a time when the world community … starts negotiating a post-Kyoto climate regime under the Bali Roadmap. China seems to become such a Christmas tree on which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622201
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Higher water tariffs for less river pollution—evidence from Min River and Fuzhou City, People’s Republic of China
Jiang, Yi; Jin, Leshan; Lin, Tun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
’s Republic of China. Payment for environmental services (PES) is seen as a promising mechanism to deal with the situation. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642685
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Relative Deprivation in China
Chen, Xi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
”, indicating that taking a relatively good position benefits people in the Chinese society. RD is also a pressing issue for China … reviews key measures of RD and empirical findings for China. I also discuss some of the most pressing policy issues with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260168
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The effects of Air Pollution on Health Status in Great Britain
Giovanis, Eleftherios; Ozdamar, Oznur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This study explores the effects of air pollution on self-reported health status. Moreover, this study explores the willingness to pay for improving the air quality in UK. The estimates are based on data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). The effects of air pollution on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210491
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Air pollution, foetal mortality, and long-term health: Evidence from the Great London Smog
Ball, Alastair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper provides new evidence on the consequences of foetal exposure to high levels of pollution for the risk of stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes from a persistent weather system that affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212579