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Taxes and Tradable Permits As Instruments for Controlling Pollution; Theory and Practice
Norregaard, John; Reppelin-Hill, Valérie - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper examines the relative merits of two dominant economic instruments for reducing pollution—”green” taxes and tradable permits. Theoretically, the two instruments share many similarities, and on balance, neither seems preferable to the other. In practice, however, most countries...
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Ecological tax reform initiatives in Africa
Kerckhoven, Sven Van; Bécault, Emilie; Marx, Axel - In: International Journal of Green Economics 9 (2015) 1, pp. 58-76
Ecological Tax Reform (ETR) is featuring high on the policy agenda. The key idea is to shift the tax burden from 'goods', such as productive labour, to 'bads' such as energy use and environmental pollution. Since the 1980s, most OECD countries have installed several environmental taxes and...
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Comment on “The spreading of disorder”
Torgler, Benno - 2010
Keizer, Lindenberg and Steg (2008) conduct six interesting field experiments and report that their results provide evidence of the broken windows theory. Such an analysis is highly relevant as the (broken windows) theory is both controversial and lacking empirical support. Keizer et al.’s key...
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Spatial heterogeneity of willingness to pay for forest management
Czajkowski, Mikolaj; Budzinski, Wiktor; Campbell, Danny; … - Environmental Economics Research Group, Department of … - 2015
The paper investigates spatial heterogeneity of the public’s preferences for the implementation of a new country-wide forest management and protection program in Poland. Spatial econometric methods and high resolution geographical information system (GIS) data related to forest characteristics...
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The Effects of an Environmental Policy on Consumers: Lessons from the Chinese Plastic Bag Regulation
He, Haoran - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010
To reduce plastic bag litter, China introduced a nationwide regulation requiring all retailers to charge for plastic …
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Determinants of Littering: An Experimental Analysis
Khawaja, Fatima Salim; Shah, Anwar - In: The Pakistan Development Review 52 (2013) 2, pp. 157-168
Littering, the improper disposal of small quantities of waste, is one of the main causes of environmental degradation. To protect the environment from this degradation, we need to factor out the determinants of littering behaviour. In this study, we conduct a controlled laboratory experiment to...
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An Approach to Litter Generation and Littering Practices in a Mexico City Neighborhood
Muñoz-Cadena, Cecilia E.; Lina-Manjarrez, Pedro; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 8, pp. 1733-1754
Urban litter is generated by human societies everywhere. Some litter is recyclable waste. In this study, the acronym …, generators’ perceptions, and quantification of RMSW in streets were examined in a Mexico City neighborhood, where litter presence … 42% said they did not generate this kind of waste. Laziness, lack of vigilance by municipal authorities, no litter bins …
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Avoided Greenhouse Gas Emissions when Forest Products substiturte Competing Materials-Effect on Carbon Account and Optimal Forest Management A Case Study of Hedmark County in Norwa...
Petersen, Ann Kristin; Gobakken, Terje; Hoen, Hans Fredrik - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 40
related to forests (living trees, dead trees, litter, soil, materials substitution, and energy substitution). The paper has …
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Spatial heterogeneity of willingness to pay for forest management
Czajkowski, Mikołaj; Budziński, Wiktor; Campbell, Danny; … - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2015
The paper investigates spatial heterogeneity of the public’s preferences for the implementation of a new country-wide forest management and protection program in Poland. Spatial econometric methods and high resolution geographical information system (GIS) data related to forest characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194323
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Dissolved Organic Carbon in Upland Forested Watersheds Underlain by Continuous Permafrost in Central Siberia
Prokushkin, A.; Gavrilenko, I.; Abaimov, A.; Prokushkin, S. - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 11 (2006) 1, pp. 223-240
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