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Zhang, Zhongxiang; Assunção, Lucas - 2001

with their WTO obligations may well arise in implementing the Kyoto Protocol, given that Article 2 of the Protocol gives … respect to the WTO consistency and the conditions under which border taxes can be adjusted to accommodate a loss of …-labels and government procurement policies, and explores the potential interaction between these domestic climate polices and WTO …

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Working too much in a polluted world: A North-South evolutionary model

Antoci, Angelo; Borghesi, Simone - 2002

This paper examines a simple North-South growth model where negative externalities may contribute to reinforce economic growth. Agents' welfare depends on three goods in the model: leisure, a common access renewable natural resource (one in each hemisphere) and a non-storable consumption good....

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Bundling biodiversity

Heal, Geoffrey - 2002

Biodiversity provides essential services to human societies. Many of these services are provided as public goods, so that they will typically be underprovided both by market mechanisms (because of the impossibility of excluding non-payers from using the services) and by government-run systems...

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A theoretical approach to tourism sustainability

Casagrandi, Renato; Rinaldi, Sergio - 1997

composed of three non-linear ordinary differential equations describing the dynamics of tourists, environment and services …

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Environmental policy in an integrated world economy

Schulze, Günther G.; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 1998

This paper critically assesses the literature on the relationship between economic integration and the environment. In …

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Self-regulation and social welfare: The political economy of corporate environmentalism

Maxwell, John W.; Lyon, Thomas Peyton; Hackett, Steven … - 1998

We extend the economic theory of regulation to allow for strategic self-regulation that preempts political action. When political "entry" is costly for consumer, firms can deter it through voluntary restraints. Unlike standard entry models, deterrence is achieved by over-investing to raise the...

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Hope for the environment: Free enterprise and other economic regimes

Baumol, William Jack - 1998

Economists that was held in Venice on June 25-27, 1998. It analyses the situation of the environment under different economic … long run for the environment. This hope lies in the abundance and growth, such as the world has never known, produced by …, they begin to think about the environment. This has allowed concern about the environment to become a powerful political …

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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. First Volume

Recchia, Virginia - 1999

Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk communication is a relatively new field based on a...

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Quasi option value and irreversible choices

Bosetti, Valentina; Messina, E. - 2001

In this paper we are concerned with optimal investment decisions when dealing with land allocation problems. We aim to emphasise the importance of flexible modelling in order to capture irreversibility. In particular, we stretch a discrete model, firstly developed in Coggins and Ramezani...

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Strategic environmental policies in the presence of foreign direct investment

Kayalica, M. Ozgur; Lahiri, Sajal - 2001

We analyse strategic environmental standards in the presence of foreign direct investment (FDI). A foreign firm located in a host country competes with a domestic firm in another country to export a homogeneous good to a third country. We also extend the model to allow the number of FDI to be...

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