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Business innovation and regulatory enforcement:case studies of the big box retail industry and enforcement of RCRA

Guard, Misty Ann - 2010

The purpose of this research is to examine the following research question: how has enforcement of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) adapted to the Big Box business system innovation? Additionally, the study explored the possible nature of regulatory choke points that may emerge from...

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Intraindustry Trade and the Environment: Is There a Selection Effect?

Aralas, Sarma B.; Hoehn, John P. - 2010

number of firms in the economy. Third, we examine the relationship between openness to trade and the environment. The impact …This paper develops a pollution model of trade in differentiated goods. Our analyses show the following: first, the … of intra-industry trade is shown to be the sum of the scale, technique and selection effects. Fourth, we undertake an …

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Renewable Resources as a Factor of Production in International Trade

Anriquez Nilson, Gustavo Adolfo - 2005

This work provides an extensive review of the literature on trade and environmentalissues that has been growing since … scattered.Next, we contribute to this literature by studying a Ricardian model of trade,in which one of the sectors uses a … renewable resource as a factor of production. Thecontribution lies in the study of trade and welfare through the full horizon of …

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Imbedding dynamic responses with imperfect information into static portraits of the regional impact of climate change

Yohe, G.W. - 2008

It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...

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Analysis of selected energy security issues related to US crude oil and natural gas exploration, development, production, transportation and processing. Final report, Task 13

2008

In July 1989, President Bush directed the Secretary of Energy to initiate the development of a comprehensive National Energy Strategy (NES) built upon a national consensus. The overall principle for the NES, as defined by the President and articulated by the Economic Policy Council (EPC), is the...

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Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves. Annual report of operations, Fiscal year 1993

2008

During fiscal year 1993, the reserves generated $440 million in revenues, a $33 million decrease from the fiscal year 1992 revenues, primarily due to significant decreases in oil and natural gas prices. Total costs were $207 million, resulting in net cash flow of $233 million, compared with $273...

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Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves. Annual report of operations, Fiscal year 1992

2008

shipments to the strategic petroleum reserve, horizontal drilling, shallow oil zone gas injection project, environment and …

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Comment on “The spreading of disorder”

Torgler, Benno - 2010

effects in a controlled field experimental environment. Their results show that if norm violating behavior becomes more common …

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Parks, buffer zones, and costly enforcement

Robinson, Elizabeth J. Z.; Albers, Heidi J. - 2006

livelihoods. Developing a spatially-explicit optimalenforcement model, this paper demonstrates that there is a trade-off between …

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Panel discussion: U.S. EPA using modeling and ecosystem services to enhance coastal decision making

Mangis, Deborah; Russell, March; Smith, Betsy; Wainger, Lisa - 2010

This panel will discuss the research being conducted, and the models being used in three current coastal EPA studies being conducted on ecosystem services in Tampa Bay, the Chesapeake Bay and the Coastal Carolinas. These studies are intended to provide a broader and more comprehensive approach...

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