Decisions concerning environmental protection hinge on estimates of economic burden. Over the past 30 years, economists have developed and applied various tools to measure this burden. In this paper, developed as a chapter for the Handbook of Environmental Economics, we present a taxonomy of...

The paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between environmental efficiency and labour productivity using industry level data. We first provide a critical and extensive discussion around the interconnected issues of environmental efficiency and performance, firm performances...

The economic perspective of agricultural sustainability involves the optimisation of monetary gains for farming businesses. These monetary objectives tend to drive farming businesses to conduct a production practice that is harmful to the environment and the sustained functioning of the...

Many of the costs associated with greenfield residential development are apparent and tangible. For example, regulatory fees, government taxes, acquisition costs, selling fees, commissions and others are all relatively easily identified since they represent actual costs incurred at a given point...

Integrating multiple services into a single network is becoming increasingly common in today’s telecommunications industry. Driven by the emergence of new applications, many of these services will be offered with guaranteed quality of service. While there are extensive studies of the...

By the end of year 2010, each member state of the European Union (the EU) ought to incorporate 5.75% of bio-fuels in the total of fuels used for transportation purposes. In order to achieve such a target, tax incentives are implemented by the French government given that the production of...

Like any other natural resources, hydro resources that are capable of generating electricity at cheaper cost give rise to economic rent. Nepal possesses huge amount of such cheaper hydro resources which is far in excess of the domestic demand. The existing rents levied by the governments are not...

The migrations process is influenced by a series of factors such as: degree of employment, migrant’s salary level in the origin and destination countries, age, gender, education and professional training, economic development, unemployment, prices and purchase power. The migrations flows...

Si bien la maternidad es una de las principales causas de la persistencia de las brechas de género, su impacto en la creciente proporción de madres inmigrantes en Europa es menos conocido. Este artículo se pregunta cómo afecta la carga del cuidado de los hijos a la integración de las...