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Safety in smart, livable cities : acknowledging the human factor
Bickley, Steve J.; Macintyre, Alison; Torgler, Benno - 2021
AI and Big Data provide opportunities and challenges with respect to how we achieve safety in livable smart cities. In this contribution, we look at set of aspects that are important at the city level; namely, how urban analytics and digital technologies can be used; how crime safety is influenced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012522582
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Discounting environmental effects in project appraisal
Percoco, Marco - 2002
The aim of this paper is to present an alternative methodology for discounting far distant future externalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597789
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Organizational efficiency or bureaucratic quagmire : do quality at entry assessments improve project performance?
Corral, Leonardo; McCarthy, Nancy - 2017
Do quality at entry assessments enhance the delivery of development projects? In this paper we take advantage of approval and execution systems in place at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to examine whether projects that have higher quality at entry-captured through grading scores...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661665
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Improving transportation project evaluation by recognizing the role of spatial scale and context in measuring non-user economic benefits
Weisbrod, Glen; Hensher, David A. - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322419
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Investing for the long-run in European real estate
Fugazza, Carolina (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003739799
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Urban sprawl and air quality in European cities: an empirical assessment
Cappelli, Federica; Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano - 2021
In this paper we estimate the relationship between urban sprawl and a measure of air quality, namely the number of days in which the PM10 concentration exceeds safeguard limits in European Union cities. Building on a multidimensional representation of sprawl, the paper employs several indicators...
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Quantifying the ancillary benefits of the representative concentration pathways on air quality in Europe
Šcasný, Milan; Massetti, Emanuele; Melichar, Jan; … - 2015
This paper presents estimates of the economic benefit of air quality improvements in Europe that occur as a side effect … Europe by 76%. Discounted ancillary benefits are more than €2.5 trillion between 2015 and 2100. The monetary value of reduced … pollution is equal to €22 per abated ton of CO2 in Europe. Less strict climate policy scenarios generate overall smaller, but …
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The evaluation of research infrastructures : a cost-benefit analysis framework
Florio, Massimo; Sirtori, Emanuela - 2014 - This draft: 21.10.2014
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The external cost of European crude oil imports
Bigano, Andrea; Cassinelli, Mariaester; Sferra, Fabio; … - 2009
This paper is the first to assess operational and probabilistic externalities of oil extraction and transportation to … Europe on the basis of a comprehensive evaluation of realistic future oil demand-supply scenarios, of the relative relevance … routes. The resulting externalities appear reasonable both under the assumption of high future demand and under low demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809694
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Quantifying the long-term economic benefits of European electricity system integration
Schmid, Eva; Knopf, Brigitte - 2014
This paper analyses a set of model-based decarbonization scenarios in order to quantify the long-term economic benefits that arise from an increasing integration of the pan-European electricity system. It thereby focuses on the interplay between transmission infrastructure and renewable...
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