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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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Bundling biodiversity
Heal, Geoffrey - 2002
Biodiversity provides essential services to human societies. Many of these services are provided as public goods, so that they will typically be underprovided both by market mechanisms (because of the impossibility of excluding non-payers from using the services) and by government-run systems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335758
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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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Does Endogenous Technical Change Make a Difference in Climate Policy Analysis? A Robustness Exercise with the FEEM-RICE Model
Galeotti, Marzio; Carraro, Carlo - 2004
Technical change is generally considered the key to the solution of environmental problems, in particular global phenomena like climate change. Scientists differ in their views on the thaumaturgic virtues of technical change. There are those who are confident that pollution-free technologies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312329
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Technology Spillovers and Stability of International Climate Coalitions
Nagashima, Miyuki; Dellink, Rob - 2007
Cooperation in international environmental agreements appears difficult to attain because of strong free-riding incentives. This paper explores how different technology spillover mechanisms among regions can influence the incentive structures to join and stabilise an international agreement. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312496
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The Dynamics of Carbon and Energy Intensity in a Model of Endogenous Technical Change
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Galeotti, Marzio - 2005
In recent years, a large number of papers have explored different attempts to endogenise technical change in climate models. The obvious reason is that technical change is widely considered the main route to achieving a significant reduction in global GHG emissions. This recent literature has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312513
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A MERGE Model with Endogenous Technological Change and the Cost of Carbon Stabilization
Kypreos, Socrates - 2005
Two stylized backstop systems with endogenous technological learning formulations (ETL) are introduced in MERGE: one for the electric and the other for the non-electric markets. Then the model is applied to analyze the impacts of ETL on carbon-mitigation policy, contrasting the resulting impacts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312520