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Pollution Across Chinese Provinces
Co, Catherine Yap; Kong, Fanying; Lin, Shuanglin - 2008
industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower … industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste … water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution …
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Extended producer responsibility and trade flows in waste: The case of batteries
Compagnoni, Marco; Grazzi, Marco; Pieri, Fabio; Tomasi, … - 2023
In the debate on international waste trade, the focus on resource efficiency and recycling has gradually begun to …
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Administrative structure and functions of drug regulatory authorities in India
Chowdhury, Nupur; Joshi, Pallavi; Patnaik, Arpita; … - 2015
Drug Regulation has been the focus of several recent policy reform efforts in India, starting with the Mashelkar … Cosmetic Act, 1940, is expected to overhaul the drug regulation, this study, the first of its kind, evaluates the …
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Exploring OECD SDGs Pilot City's 50-Year Time Series Data and Its Environmental Kuznets Curves
Vuong, Quan Hoang - 2019
Can green growth policies help protect the environment while keeping the industry growing and infrastructure expanding? This study applies Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method on the 50-years' time series data, from 1967 to 2015, of Kitakyushu City, Japan, and found mixed evidence for...
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Satisfaction with Democracy and Collective Action Problems: The Case of the Environment
Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich; Wagner, Alexander - 2008
Using modern methods for analyzing multi-level data, we find that, by and large, citizens of OECD countries are more satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality is higher. We also document that parents care...
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Understanding and managing behavioural risks: The case of food risks caused by malpractice in poultry production
Hirschauer, Norbert; Zwoll, Stefan - 2006
The probability that actors in economic relationships break rules increases with the profits they thus expect to earn. It decreases with the probability and level of short- and long-term losses resulting from disclosure. It also decreases with the level of social context factors and intrinsic...
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A comprehensive evaluation of the EU's biofuel policy: From biofuels to agrofuels
Murnaghan, Kitty - 2017
behind the regulation of this resource are, and how they affect to what extent it is successful or not. In order to do this … forces responsible for regulation of this kind through a case study of Germany and Indonesia. …
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The role of the Eastern member states in the European Union's energy and climate policy
Olgun, Cenk - 2017
The European Union has been prizing itself for being the global leader in terms of climate change; its triptych approach and the 20-20-20 targets were certainly an enviable effort prior to the United Nations Convention. However, with the economic crisis having left its mark, there has been a...
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Environmental liability and redevelopment of old industrial land
Sigman, Hilary - 2006
Many communities are concerned about the reuse of potentially contaminated land (brownfields) and believe that environmental liability is a hindrance to redevelopment. However, with land price adjustments, liability might not impede the reuse of this land. Existing literature has found price...
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Comment: legal liability as climate change policy
Sigman, Hilary - 2007
Several U.S. states have attempted to use of legal liability imposed on greenhouse gas emitters as a public policy instrument for climate change. This brief comment considers the desirability of this approach, focusing on three possible roles for climate change liability: as a source of...
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