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Lessons from the Southern enlargement of the EU for the environmental dimensions of Eastern enlargement in particular for Poland

Kuik, Onno J.; Oosterhuis, Frans H. - 2001

This paper analyses the environmental dimensions the past accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EU in order to draw lessons for the current accession of countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A distinction is made between scale, composition and technique effects. Two major conclusions...

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Is Inequality Harmful for the Environment in a Growing Economy?

Kempf, Hubert; Rossignol, Stéphane - 2005

In this paper we investigate the relationship between inequality and the environment in a growing economy from a … the environment. Public expenditures may either be devoted to supporting growth or abating pollution. The decision over … and show that inequality is harmful for the environment: the poorer the median voter relative to the average individual …

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Tourism and development: a recent phenomenon built on old (institutional) roots?

Brau, Rinaldo; Di Liberto, Adriana; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2010

Is tourism an opportunity for lagging countries in the elusive quest for growth (Easterly, 2002)? Recent empirical evidence suggests that the answer is a cautious yes. Aggregate cross-country data show that tourism specialization is likely to be associated with higher per capita GDP growth rates...

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Institutional Explanations of Economic Development: the Role of Precious Metals

Papyrakis, Elissaios; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2005

found at home. It has been argued that a harsh disease environment and a highly urbanized native population worked against …

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Valuation of Ecosystem Services Provided by Biodiversity Conservation: An Integrated Hydrological and Economic Model to Value the Enhanced Nitrogen Retention in Renaturated Streams

Bräuer, Ingo; Marggraf, Rainer - 2004

The importance of ecosystem functions for humankind is well known. But only few attempts have been undertaken to estimate the economic value of these ecosystem services. In particular, indirect methods are rarely used, even though they are most suitable for the task. This discrepancy is because...

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Private Options to Use Public Goods Exploiting Revealed Preferences to Estimate Environmental Benefits

Snyder, Lori D.; Stavins, Robert N.; Wagner, Alexander F. - 2003

We develop and apply a new method for estimating the economic benefits of an environmental amenity. The method fits within the household production framework (Becker 1965), and is based upon the notion of estimating the derived demand for a privately traded option to utilize a freely-available...

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Transitional dynamics and uniqueness of the balanced-growth path in a simple model of endogenous growth with environmental asset

Cazzavillan, Guido; Musu, Ignazio - 2001

We present an optimal endogenous growth model with an environmental asset which delivers a direct social utility value. The efficiency of the production services provided by the environmental asset directly depend on past capital accumulation. Such an assumption corresponds to assuming that past...

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European forests and carbon sequestration services: an economic assessment of climate change impacts

Ding, Helen; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Teelucksingh, Sonja S. - 2010

This paper reports an original economic valuation of the impact of climate change on the provision of forest regulating services in Europe. To the authors' knowledge the current paper represents the first systematic attempt to estimate human well-being losses with respect to changes in...

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Analysis and Evaluation of Ecosystem Resilience: An Economic Perspective

Vergano, Lucia; Nunes, Paulo A.L.D. - 2006

This paper focuses on the analyses and evaluation of resilience anchored in an economic perspective. Resilience, as well as most of the benefits provided by ecosystems, is not priced on current markets. However, this does not mean that resilience is of no value for humans. On the contrary, the...

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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing

Snyder, Lori; Miller, Nolan; Stavins, Robert - 2003

We use a hazard model to estimate the effect of environmental regulation on the diffusion of membrane cell production technology in the chlorine manufacturing industry. We estimate the effect of regulation on both the adoption of the membrane technology at existing plants and on the exit of...

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