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Fire has long served as a tool in agriculture, but this practice's human capital consequences have proved difficult to … the importance of disentangling pollution from economic activities that drive it …
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Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world … incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce forest policy may be critical to understanding tropical deforestation … eight years of institutional change in post-Soeharto Indonesia. Increases in the numbers of political jurisdictions are …
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This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic … political economy of deforestation. They are consistent with the literature on (under) provision of public goods and social … decentralisation can reduce deforestation by delegating powers to more homogeneous communities …
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measures of air pollution such as SO2 concentrations. Perceptions that WTO panel rulings have interfered with the ability of …
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relationship has been called the out a simple and straight-forward static model of the microfoundations of the pollution …
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potentially refutable predictions on abatement costs, pollution levels, or emission intensities …
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, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …
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between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In …
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model, which we dub the Green Solow', generates an EKC relationship between both the flow of pollution emissions and income … technological progress in abatement, the EKC is a necessary by product of convergence to a sustainable growth path. Our amended … per capita, and the stock of environmental quality and income per capita. The resulting EKC may be humped shaped or …
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in agriculture, small and medium enterprises and human capital differ significantly from year to year. We also show how …
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