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This paper extends the classical exhaustible-resource/stock-pollution model with the irreversibility of pollution decay …. Within this framework, we answer the question how the potential irreversibility of pollution affects the extraction path. We … example. To sum up, for any pollution level, we can identify a critical resource stock such that there exist multiple optima i …
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In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals’ well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
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externalities. For example, one authority may regulate a stock pollution and another a flow pollution that result from the same … warming and local air pollution as a result of CO2 emissions, a review of the results of integrated assessment model shows … potential for a tax to control local air pollution is likely to clearly be in the two-digit percent range if they take account …
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forecasts, limiting responses to uncertain future events like air pollution. We study two randomized interventions in Lahore …, Pakistan: 1) provision of air pollution forecasts; 2) general training in forecasting. Both reduced subjects' own air pollution …. Forecast receipt increased demand for protective masks and increased the responsiveness of outdoor time to pollution. Forecast …
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4207 I examine the association between nighttime light luminosity and ten pollution measures (CO2, CO, NOx,SO2, NMVOC … system and economic growth on pollution have been widely analyzed at the country level, this is the first study to do so at … wide array of different pollution measures. Second, there are significant differences in the association between economic …
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We study how spillovers from water pollution cleanup in the Ganges affect social welfare in an aggregate economy … consisting of Kanpur and Varanasi, two cities through which this river flows. We view pollution cleanup in both cities as a local … public good and point out that, if Kanpur cleans up pollution in the Ganges, then Varanasi obtains some spillover benefit and …
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the pollution variation among municipalities within the same province, the per capita income level of municipalities …
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In "The Tragedy of the Commons," Garrett Hardin argues that those who can use a resource for free consume more of it than they would if they had to pay for it. Public resources eventually collapse because people overuse them. Hardin’s widely accepted argument seems correct as far as it goes,...
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This study examines the complex relation among environmental taxes, productive capacities, urbanization, and their collective effects on environmental quality in Africa, drawing on two decades of data from twenty African countries. It situates the study within the broader discourse on...
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This study examines the effect of a pollution liability insurance mandate on corporate environmental compliance in …
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