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Valuation of Ecosystem Services from Wetlands Mitigation in the United States
Adusumilli, Naveen - In: Land 4 (2015) 1, pp. 182-196
compensate for permitted wetland losses. These mitigation wetlands can provide ecosystem services similar to original wetlands if … in the Army Corps permit files represent actual wetland creation, ecosystem services value is estimated using a wetland … is used for the analysis. The results indicate that cumulative ecosystem services value per acre per year is in the range …
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Tailoring Global Data to Guide Corporate Investments in Biodiversity, Environmental Assessments and Sustainability
Oakleaf, James R.; Kennedy, Christina M.; Boucher, Timothy - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 10, pp. 4444-4460
Companies make significant investments in environmental impacts assessments, biodiversity action plans, life-cycle assessments, and environmental management systems, but guidance on where and when these tools can be best used, and how they may scale-up to inform corporation-wide planning, is...
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Ecosystem-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Caribbean Small Island Developing States: Integrating Local and External Knowledge
Mercer, Jessica; Kelman, Ilan; Alfthan, Björn; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 8, pp. 1908-1932
focus on ecosystems and their interaction with people is essential for climate change adaptation. Increasingly, ecosystem …
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Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Food Security in the AIMS SIDS: Integrating External and Local Knowledge
Mercer, Jessica; Kurvits, Tiina; Kelman, Ilan; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 9, pp. 5566-5597
This paper critically reviews ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) approaches for food security under climate change … of coherence in AIMS SIDS approaching food security, in terms of policies and actions not reflecting the ecosystem …
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Environmental Costs Paid by the Polluter or the Beneficiary? The Case of CERCLA and Superfund
Fullerton, Don; Tsang, Seng-Su - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980 follows the "polluter pays" principle by placing retroactive liability on responsible firms. Yet this cost is borne by current shareholders who did not benefit from past low-cost waste management. This...
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Tax Distortions and Global Climate Policy
Reilly, John Matthew; Babiker, Mustafa H.; Metcalf, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
We consider the efficiency implications of policies to reduce global carbon emissions in a world with pre-existing tax distortions. We first note that the weak double-dividend, the proposition that the welfare improvement from a tax reform where environmental taxes are used to lower distorting...
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Moving to Greener Pastures? Multinationals and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis
Harrison, Ann E.; Eskeland, Gunnar A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
This paper presents evidence on whether multinationals are flocking to developing country 'pollution havens'. Although we find some evidence that foreign investors locate in sectors with high levels of air pollution, the evidence is weak at best. We then examine whether foreign firms pollute...
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Open Access Renewable Resources: Trade and Trade Policy in a Two-CountryModel
Brander, James A.; Taylor, M. Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
This paper develops a two-good, two-country model with national open access renewable resources. We derive an appropriate analog of `factor proportions' for the renewable resource case and link it to trade patterns and to the likelihood of diversified production. The resource importer gains from...
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The Pace of Progress at Superfund Sites: Policy Goals and Interest Group Influence
Sigman, Hilary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
Bureaucracies may set priorities for their workload according to social goals or the desires of concentrated private interests. This paper explores bureaucratic priorities empirically by studying Superfund, the federal program for cleaning up contaminated sites. It examines the amount of time...
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When Do Firms Shift Production Across States to Avoid Environmental Regulation?
Gray, Wayne B.; Shadbegian, Ronald J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
This paper takes a new approach to testing the impact of state environmental regulatory stringency on firms' location decisions, focusing on firms' allocation of production across states. We use Census data for the paper industry to measure the share of each firm's production in each state...
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