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Disability adjusted life years lost (DALYs) are one of the most usual health outcome metrics in environmental and health assessments and cost-effectiveness or cost/benefit analysis of interventions in those two areas. The methodology for DALYs´ calculation has been evolving under the Global...
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With CAIT WRI data for those countries which submitted quantifiable CO2 emission caps under the Copenhagen Agreement, this note supports the existence of a long run relationship between CO2 emissions and GDP in 11 of the 26 countries in our sample over the period 1980-2008. However, the...
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Se presenta una valuación del impacto que podría producir la planta de celulosa de Fray Bentos sobre el turismo recreativo en el río Uruguay por cambios en el paisaje y en la calidad de las aguas. Los datos provienen de una encuesta realizada en diciembre 2006 y la metodología es de...
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At the time of Argentina´s greenhouse gases emissions reduction voluntary commitment, most of the articles on intensity targets had not been published. The aim of this paper is to (re)discuss briefly the proposal made by Argentina taking into account that literature. To justify the adopted...
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More and more firms tend nowadays to adopt environment-friendly attitudes. Their motivation originates in local environmental regulations or requirements of foreign markets to which firms export (both induced by consumers and investors´ valuation of pro-environment initiatives). There is a...
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The relationship between lifestyle choices and health has been widely studied in the epidemiological and economic literature. In the last years, empirical research was directed towards the use of recursive systems with structural equations for a health production function and reduced form...
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Este trabajo repasa las dos principales ramas principales de la literatura empírica sobre cuantificación del impacto de la responsabilidad ambiental corporativa. La primera de éstas comprende varios estudios de eventos ambientales. Lo que se cuantifica son los retornos “anormales” que...
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Since the beginning of the last century the world is experiencing an important demographic transition, which will probably impact on economic growth. Many demographers and social scientists are trying to understand the key drivers of such transition as well as its profound implications. A...
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La cuantificación de los beneficios de cualquier política dirigida a reducir la contaminación puede hacerse de distintas maneras. Una de ellas es a través de métodos indirectos, uno de los cuales es el de la valuación hedónica. La idea básica es que en el precio de los inmuebles se...
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This paper addresses the issue of conflicts between countries who share a renewable natural resource using a two-level framework. Contrary to the usual modeling of countries as representative agents who sign an international treaty to protect the resource that they share, this research considers...
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