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We estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for better quality of tap water on a unique cross-section sample from 10 OECD countries. On the pooled sample, households are willing to pay 7.5% of the median annual water bill to improve the tap water quality. The highest relative WTP for better tap water...
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A simple method to delineate the recharge areas of a series of springs draining a fractured aquifer is presented. Instead of solving the flow and transport equations, the delineation is reformulated as a mass balance problem assigning arable land in proportion to the pesticide mass discharged...
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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...
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We revisit the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces. A comparison of off-sample (1996-2004) predictions to actual emissions indicates that more stringent rules are still needed to fight industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary...
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This study examines the long-run relationship between industrial pollution and income in China using provincial panel …
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China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the … background, this paper discusses a variety of tactics that China's central government has been using to incentivize local … ; Industrial Policy ; Financial Institutions ; Government Decentralization ; China …
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As an important step towards building a "harmonious society" through "scientific development", China has incorporated … quadrupling of its GDP while cutting its energy intensity by about three quarters between 1980 and 2000, China has had limited … the Copenhagen climate summit, China pledged to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020 relative its 2005 levels to …
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Just prior to the Copenhagen climate summit, China pledged to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020 relative to … of whether such a pledge is ambitious or just represents business as usual. To put China's climate pledge into … set in the current 11th five-year economic blueprint, to what extent it drives China's emissions below its projected …
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China's capital-intensive, export-oriented, spectacular economic growth since launching its open-door policy and … in China's trade differ, both single country studies for China and global studies show a hefty chunk of China's CO2 … emissions embedded in trade. This portion of CO2 emissions had helped to turn China into the world's largest carbon emitter, and …
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