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with congestion and pollution, as well as the impact of underpriced energy for depletion of scarce water resources … external costs of energy subsidies, as manifested in congestion and pollution. The estimates using simulations indicate that …
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Environmental concern in developing countries has risen rapidly over the past decade. At the same time, decentralization and civic participation in environmental policy-making have also burgeoned. This paper uses data from the Brazilian Municipal Environmental Survey 2001 to examine the causal...
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Part 1 of the paper reviews recent trends in fossil fuel use and associated externalities. It also argues that the recent run-up in international oil prices reflects growing concerns about supply constraints associated with declining spare capacity in OPEC, refining bottlenecks, and geopolitical...
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and export activity in water and toxic pollution-intensive sectors compared with the less pollution-intensive sectors. The … traditional sectors and toward pollution-intensive manufacturing (especially leather and textiles). The paper also highlights the …
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This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the … pollution content of trade (measured by the pollution content of imports, PCI) and decomposing it into three components-a "deep … pollution haven effect which increases the PCI of the North because of stricter environmental regulations in the North. At the …
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required in Delhi, which would necessitate an increase in bus fares to cover the cost of pollution controls. The authors model …
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In a recent survey of 820 Boro (winter rice), potato, bean, eggplant, cabbage, sugarcane, and mango farmers in Bangladesh, over 47 percent of farmers were found to be overusing pesticides. With only 4 percent of farmers formally trained in pesticide use or handling, and over 87 percent openly...
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This paper develops a new methodology for calculating the "carbon footprint" of air travel whereby emissions from travel in premium (business and first) classes depend heavily on the average class-specific occupied floor space. Unlike methods currently used for the purpose, the approach properly...
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pollution control because they typically face weak monitoring and enforcement of environmental regulations. The findings of the … authors, however, indicate that the inability of formal institutions to control pollution through fines and penalties may not … be as serious an impediment to pollution control as is generally argued. Environmental regulators in developing countries …
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New research on urban air pollution casts doubt on the conventional view of the relationship between economic growth … and environmental quality. This view holds that pollution automatically increases until societies reach middle … show in this paper, the empirical relationship between pollution and income becomes much weaker when measures of governance …
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