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local pollutant. Governments use environmental policies, i.e., an emissions standard or a tax, to control pollution and for … demand, the cost of abatement and the damage caused from pollution. Under these modes of uncertainty we derive sufficient …
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The paper describes a relatively new approach to pollution reduction problem solving that relies on negotiation between … agreements between authorities and polluters. Design and results of a laboratory environmental policy experiment on air pollution … new institution for environmental pollution management in practice is the most important result. The case also shows the …
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applied in a numerical example with two regions (EU and CEECs) and two goods (pollution intensive good A and clean good B …
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The relationship between economic growth and pollution is very complex, depending upon a host of different factors … must hold in order to obtain an inverted-U functional relationship between pollution and growth. These models are however …
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Environmental cost-benefit analysis (ECBA) refers to social evaluation of investment projects and policies that involve significant environmental impacts. Valuation of the environmental impacts in monetary terms forms one of the critical steps in ECBA. We propose a new approach for environmental...
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The analysis finds that in addition to U-shaped paths of environmental quality arising for growth in income per capita, growth in population can also produce socially efficient patterns that are U-shaped. Sufficient conditions for both types of paths are identified for a range of models and...
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income in pollution abatement technology (PAT) which artificially increases the rate of regeneration of the environmental …; 4) when PAT is available an income pollution tax does not affect the dynamic path of the market economy. …
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The Communication on Environmental Indicators and Green National Accounting (Com (94) 670 final, 21.12.94) laid the basis for indicator and accounting projects aimed to give comprehensive support to environmental policy, like GARP and GreenStamp. The article is intended to demonstrate: that...
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This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality affects carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their relationship with...
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This paper examines the link between pollution and income. It shows how income inequality affects environmental … policies and therefore pollution. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis proposes that there is an inverted U …
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