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of these findings for the debate upon discounting and sustainability under uncertainty. …
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with regards to emission reductions and sustainability strategies already achieved. …
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A suitable strategy for achieving sustainable development is to foster environmental innovations. Environmental innovations, however, suffer from so-called double externalities, because apart from innovation spillovers they also improve the quality of public environmental goods, which can be...
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Defining what Sustainability and Sustainable Development mean is a critical task, as they are global objectives, which …
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This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability … index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components … the FEEM Sustainability Index (FEEM SI), a composite index including 19 different indicators grouped in the three …
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This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability … index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components … the FEEM Sustainability Index (FEEM SI), a composite index including 19 different indicators grouped in the three …
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Composite indicators are becoming increasingly infuential tools of environmental assessment and advocacy. Nonetheless, their use is controversial as they often rely on ad-hoc and theoretically problematic assumptions regarding normalization, aggregation, and weighting. Nonparametric data...
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This paper uses private and environmental cost data for the Netherlands to evaluate the social cost of two final waste disposal methods, landfilling versus incineration using waste-to-energy (WTE) plants. The data only provide some support for the widespread policy preference for incineration...
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This paper presents a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions in the computation of the Social Cost of Carbon. Our approach nests a standard efficiency based Social Cost of Carbon estimate and an equity weighted Social Cost of Carbon...
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This paper discusses intermediate results of an ongoing research project to estimate all external costs from all transport modes in Belgium. It gives estimates of the marginal external costs of air pollution from urban transport. The evaluation of the environmental impacts is based on the...
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