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International Fuel Tax Assessment; An Application to Chile

Parry, Ian W.H.; Strand, Jon - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

Gasoline and diesel fuel are heavily taxed in many developed and some emerging and developing countries. Outside of the United States and Europe, however, there has been little attempt to quantify the external costs of vehicle use, so policymakers lack guidance on whether prevailing tax rates...

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The Uniform World Model: A Methodology for Predicting the Health Impacts of Air Pollution

Spadaro, Joseph V. - 2011

Throughout history, technological development and economic growth has led to greater prosperity and overall standard of living for many people in society. However, along with the benefits of economic development comes the social responsibility of minimizing the mortality and morbidity health...

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Reforming the Tax System to Promote Environmental Objectives; An Application to Mauritius

Parry, Ian W.H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

Fiscal instruments are potentially among the most effective, and cost-effective, options for addressing externalities related to poor air quality, urban road congestion, and greenhouse gases. This paper takes a case study, focused on Mauritius (a pioneer in the use of green taxes) to illustrate...

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Electric vehicles and energy insecurity in ASEAN countries: Renewable energy integration and urban air quality

Youngho, Chang; Li, Yanfei - 2019

The electrification of road transport in the ASEAN appears to decrease the level of final energy consumption in the road transport sector in 2040. The level of primary energy consumption, however, may not decrease unless countries adopt aggressive policies toward the integration of renewable...

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Influence of vehicular traffic on environmental noise spectrum in the tourist route of Santa Marta City

Jiménez-Uribe, D. A.; Daniels, D.; González- Álvarez, Á. - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 818-824

Transportation demands large amounts of fuel. In particular, road transport greatly contributes to both criteria air pollutants and noise within cities. The influence of vehicular traffic on the environmental noise spectrum (as an indirect indicator of energy emission) was measured and assessed...

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Electric vehicles and energy insecurity in ASEAN countries : renewable energy integration and urban air quality

Youngho, Chang; Li, Yanfei - 2019

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119141

Influence of vehicular traffic on environmental noise spectrum in the tourist route of Santa Marta City

Jiménez-Uribe, D. A.; Daniels, D.; González- Álvarez, Á. - In: Energy reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 818-824

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Alerts work! Air quality warnings and cycling

Saberian, Soodeh; Heyes, Anthony; Rivers, Nicholas - In: Resource and energy economics 49 (2017), pp. 165-185

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Longing for the blue sky : urban air quality and the individual decision to immigrate

Hu, Zhigao; Zhang, Yan; Cao, Jianhua; Zhou, Ke - In: Journal of Asian economics 79 (2022), pp. 1-19

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A tale of hidden cities

Panori, Anastasia - In: REGION 4 (2017) 3, pp. 19-38

. The metropolitan area of Athens is used as our case study, for which available data at a municipal level enable the … values, three groups of municipalities are derived within Athens. For each one of them, a mean MPI index is calculated and … Athens. The urban core of the city is characterised by middle-income municipalities, whilst the north-east and the south …

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