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This paper considers the complementarity of social, economic and environmental policy in South Africa, using the mining … sector as a case study. The mining sector has been chosen due to its unique position as a backbone of the South African … mandates; and the intersections between policy actors from the state, the mining industry, labour and civil society. This …
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In this review we synthetize the existing contributions that use econometric approaches to examine the influence of institutions and governance on environmental policy, environmental outcomes, and investments. The paper describes how the relationship between institutions and various response...
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charges, tradeable permit systems,market friction reduction, and government subsidy reduction. Following that, I examine …
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We review major developments in national environmental policy during the Clinton Administration, defining environmental policy to include not only the statutes, regulations, and policies associated with reducing pollution, but also major issues of public lands management and species...
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, administrative charges, and tax differentiation. Within tradable permit systems, I consider both credit programs and cap … their purest form and with some success, such as in the case of tradable-permit systems in the United States, they have not …
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In the last decade, as many other European countries, the Italian Government adopted several reforms in order to increase the use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). The liberalization of the electricity market that represents one of these reforms aims to reach environmental benefits from the...
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Federal action addressing climate change is likely to emerge either through new legislation or via the U.S. EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. The prospect of federal action raises important questions regarding the interconnections between federal efforts and state-level climate policy...
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We explore whether environmental motivation affects environmental behavior by focusing on volunteering. The paper first introduces a theoretical model of volunteering in environmental organizations. In a next step, it tests the hypothesis working with a large micro data set covering 32 countries...
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The design of environmental policy typically takes place within a framework in which uncertainty over the future impact of pollution and two different kinds of irreversibilities interact. The first kind of irreversibility concerns the sunk cost of environmental degradation; the second is related...
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