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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608821
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312338
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608432
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The Determinants of Individuals’ Attitudes Towards Preventing Environmental Damage
Torgler, Benno; Garcia-Valiñas, Maria A. - 2005
This paper investigates empirically the determinants of individuals' attitudes towards preventing environmental damage in Spain using data from the World Values Survey and European Values Survey for the periods 1990, 1995 and 1999/2000. Compared to many previous studies, we present a richer set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312271
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The use of trade measures for environmental purposes - globally and the Eu context
Vikhlyaev, Alexey - 2001
to a trend towards the regionalization of trade and environment rule making and implementation, with the EU moving along …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608830
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324933
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325088
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608827
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276872
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312531