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A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks
Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013
of water pollution deriving from mismanaged drilling and fracturing, absence of adequate regulation framework and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328696
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Environmental performance and regional innovation spillovers
Costantini, Valeria; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna - 2010
The achievement of positive environmental performance at national level could strongly depend on differences in local capabilities of both institutions and the private business sector. Environmental regulation alone is a weak instrument if the institutional and business environment cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272436
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Environmental security and its implications for China's foreign relations
Mochizuki, Junko; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
. Tensions have been seen in areas such as transboundary air pollution, cross-border water resources management and resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279462
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The French Tax on Air Pollution: Some Preliminary Results on its Effectiveness
Millock, Katrin; Nauges, Céline - 2003
Empirical evidence evaluating the efficiency of economic instruments is still rare, despite significant theoretical advances over the last decades. The objective of this paper is to evaluate one form of environmental taxation, the French tax on air pollution from 1990-99. While starting out in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325080
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Effective environmental protection in the context of government decentralization
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the economic reforms over the past three decades. This devolution of decision-making to local levels and enterprises has placed environmental stewardship in the hands of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279633
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Programs, Prices and Policies Towards Energy Conservation and Environmental Quality in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398392
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Regulatory distance and the transfer of new environmentally sound technologies: Evidence from the automobile sector
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - 2012
This article examines the impact of environmental regulation within countries as well as regulatory distance between countries on international technology transfer. We employ a recently-assembled dataset of automobile emission standards and corresponding data on non-resident patent filing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282945
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An Analysis of Water Security under Climate Change
Cappelli, Federica - 2017
Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal … other aspects. The water security approach manages such complexity and proposes a comprehensive view of human security in … relation to the water-related issues. Consequently, the solutions developed in order to face this multi-faceted concept should …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662435
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Land competitiveness and leakage concerns and border carbon adjustments
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2012
This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294262
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Cournot competition and "green" innovation: An inverted-U relationship
Lambertini, Luca; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Tampieri, … - 2015
We examine the relationship between competition and innovation in an industry where production is polluting and R&D aims to reduce emissions ("green" innovation). We present an n-firm oligopoly where firms compete in quantities and decide their investment in "green" R&D. When environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307311