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A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks

Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...

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The Energy-Policy Efficiency Gap: Was There Ever Support for Gasoline Taxes?

Knittel, Christopher R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

From 1864 to 1972, the real price of oil fell by, on average, over one percent per year. This trend dramatically broke when prices for crude increased by over 650 percent from 1972 to 1980. Policy makers adopted several policies designed to keep oil prices in check and reduce consumption....

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Nuclear Energy policy in the United States 1990-2010: A Federal or State Responsibility

Heffron, R.J. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2013

This paper examines from a policy perspective nuclear energy policy in the United States (US) from 1990 to 2010 and questions whether it is or has become a Federal or State responsibility. The present study, as befits policy research, engages with many disciplines (for example, in particular,...

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The Future of Nuclear Energy in Europe : A Lesson in Risk Management from Finland

Keppler, Jan Horst - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005

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Risk Assessment in Construction Process in Nuclear Sector within the Central and Eastern Europe

Vlcek, Tomas; Jirusek, Martin; Henderson, James - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 5 (2015) 2, pp. 482-493

project with current electricity prices undermining any new project not only in the region but also in Europe as a whole …

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Measuring the Impacts of Nuclear Accidents on Energy Policy

Csereklyei, Zsuzsanna - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department … - 2013

This paper examines the history of nuclear energy, safety developments of reactors and nuclear energy policy from the 1950s on. I investigate the effects of nuclear accidents on energy policy with the help of a panel dataset of 31 countries from 1965-2009, using annual data about the capacity of...

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Current State of Development of Electricity-Generating Technologies: A Literature Review

Lenzen, Manfred - In: Energies 3 (2010) 3, pp. 462-591

Electricity is perhaps the most versatile energy carrier in modern economies, and it is therefore fundamentally linked … to human and economic development. Electricity growth has outpaced that of any other fuel, leading to ever …. Electricity therefore deserves particular attention with regard to its contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, which is …

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Energy Resources in the Future

Tomabechi, Ken - In: Energies 3 (2010) 4, pp. 686-695

Recent statistics indicate that in 2005 the world consumed about 0.5 ZJ (ZJ = 10<sup>21 </sup>Joules) of energy. If one assumes that the future world population stabilizes at 10 billions, and the people consume a similar amount of energy per capita to that of the people in the presently developed...

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A New Risk Emerges : Provider Accountability for Inadequate Treatment of Pain

Tucker, J. D., Kathryn L. - 2008

Patients in the United States are routinely undertreated for pain. This problem has been widely recognized and documented in medical literature. In a seminal medical study of end-of-life care, researchers found that 50% of all patients who died during hospitalization quot;experienced moderate or...

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One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - In: EconStor Open Access Articles (2011-05), pp. 591-601

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's federal states. We exploit this variation to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on...

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