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Environmental security and its implications for China's foreign relations
Mochizuki, Junko; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China's emerging standing in the world demands a major rethinking of its diplomatic strategies. Given its population size, geographical scale, economic power and military presence, China is poised to play a larger political role in the twenty-first century, and is thus perceived by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279462
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The Conservation versus Production Trade-off: Does Livestock Intensification Increase Deforestation? The Case of the Brazilian Amazon
Vale, Petterson Molina - 2015
More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow … rising land productivity of cattle increase deforestation? I use secondary data and spatial econometrics to look for evidence … of a positive relation between cattle intensification and deforestation ('rebound effect'). The reduced-form model I …
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Export Tariffs Combined with Public Investments as a Forest Conservation Policy Instrument
Schwerhoff, Gregor; Wehkamp, Johanna - 2017
The forest conservation policy instrument REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is … that it is possible to combine export tariffs with public investments such that deforestation decreases, while agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662430
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Are You SURE You want to waste policy chances? Waste generation, landfill diversion and environmental policy effectiveness in the EU15
Iafolla, Valentina; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Nicolli, … - 2010
We empirically test delinking of waste dynamics with regard to economic growth and the effectiveness of environmental and specific waste-related policies, by exploiting a newly constructed, integrated waste-economic-policy dataset based on official data for the EU15 for 1995-2007. We find that...
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Embedding landfill diversion in economic, geographical and policy settings panel based evidence from Italy
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna; Nicolli, Francesco - 2008
This paper analyses the process of delinking for landfilling trends embedding the dynamics in a frame where economic, geographical and policy variables enter the arena We aim at investigating in depth what main drivers may be responsible for such a phenomenon, and whether differences may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279424
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Socioeconomic factors and water quality in California
Farzin, Y. Hossein; Grogan, Kelly A. - 2011
We investigate the relationships between water quality and socioeconomic factors in California at the county level for the years 1993 to 2006 using 24 water quality indicators coming from seven different types of water bodies. We estimate these relationships using three classes of models: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279547
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Emissions trends and labour productivity dynamics sector analyses of de-coupling/recoupling on a 1990-2005 Namea
Marin, Giovanni; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2009
This paper provides new empirical evidence on Environmental Kuznets Curves (EKC) for greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollutants at sector level. A panel dataset based on the Italian NAMEA over 1990-2005 is analysed, focusing on both emission efficiency (EKC model) and total emissions (IPAT...
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Waste generation, incineration and landfill diversion: De-coupling trends, socio-economic drivers and policy effectiveness in the EU
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - 2008
Waste generation and waste disposal are issues that are becoming increasingly prominent in the environmental arena both from a policy perspective and in the context of delinking analysis. Waste generation is still increasing proportionally with income, and economic and environmental costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279639
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Waste generation and landfill diversion dynamics: decentralised management and spatial effects
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna; Nicolli, Francesco - 2010
This paper provides analyses of municipal waste generation and landfill diversion dynamics based on an 8-year panel dataset for Italy covering 103 provinces. Although absolute declining for waste generation is a long way off, there are some first signals of increasing relative delinking and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285387
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Municipal Waste Production, Economic Drivers, and New Waste Policies: EKC Evidence from Italian Regional and Provincial Panel Data
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna; Zoboli, Roberto - 2006
This paper provides empirical evidence on delinking and Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) for municipal waste production in Italy. First, methodological issues and literature on delinking and EKC for waste are critically re-examined. Secondly, we analyse two very disaggregated panel datasets on...
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