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Economic Analysis of Selected Environmental Issues in China
Zhou, Yuan - 2005
of air pollution. Chapter 2 analyses the potential application of desalination in China from an economic perspective … health impacts from air pollution in Tianjin. Although China has made dramatic economic progress in recent years, air …This thesis investigates several selected environmental issues in China from an economic perspective. It consists of …
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An analysis of SO sub 2 emission compliance under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments
Hanson, D.A.; Cilek, C.M.; Pandola, G.; Taxon, T. - 2008
The effectiveness of SO{sub 2} emission allowance trading under Title 4 of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act (CAA) is of great interest due to the innovative nature of this market incentive approach. However, it may be a mistake to frame the compliance problem for a utility as a decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435386
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The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Great Lakes economy: Challenges and opportunities
Hanson, D.; Molburg, J.; Pandola, G.; Taxon, T.; Lurie, G. - 2008
This paper deals with the market for SO{sub 2} emission allowances over time and electric utility compliance choices. For currently high emitting plants ( 2.5 lb SO{sub 2}/MMBtu), the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) provide for about twice as many SO{sub 2} allowances to be issued per year...
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Information and issues related to the quantification of environmental externalities for new powerplants
Lee, A.D.; Callaway, J.M.; Glantz, C.S.; Baechler, M.C.; … - 2008
This report provides background information for the Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) in its efforts to quantify the environmental externalities associated with new electricity resources. A more detailed companion document has been provided to Bonneville for internal use. This report...
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Estimation of expected value for lognormal and gamma distributions. [Environmental pollutants]
White, G.C. - 2009
Concentrations of environmental pollutants tend to follow positively skewed frequency distributions. Two such density functions are the gamma and lognormal. Minimum variance unbiased estimators of the expected value for both densities are available. The small sample statistical properties of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435692
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Incorporating uncertainty into electric utility projections and decisions
Hanson, D.A. - 2008
This paper focuses on how electric utility companies can respond in their decision making to uncertain variables. Here we take a mean- variance type of approach. The mean'' value is an expected cost, on a discounted value basis. We assume that management has risk preferences incorporating a...
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An interregional hedonic analysis of noxious facility impacts on local wages and property values
Clark, D.E.; Nieves, L.A. - 2008
Claims of property value loss are commonly raised by homeowners when noxious facilities are sited or when new information about the hazards of existing facilities is made public. While the capitalization of externalities into land values is consistent with economic theory, empirical measurement...
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Cointegration Analysis on the Relation between Urbanization and Economic Growth in China
LIU, Ai ying; YAO, Li fen; LI, Qing chen - 2011
empirical research on the relation between urbanization and GDP in China, and also implements a comparative analysis to the … relation between three industries and degree of urbanization, the related coeffecient is 0.97, 0.95, 0.97, 0.97. And the result … shows a long-term balance between these two factors, and the promoting effect to tertiary industry by urbanization is more …
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Three Essays on China's Economic Reform
Li, Lixing - 2008
the process of China's enterprise reform. The other two essays focus on the upgrading of counties to cities in China …
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The significance and performance of infrastructure in China
Newell, Graeme; Chau, K. W.; Wong, Siu Kei - 2009
The significant economic growth and urbanisation of China in recent years has seen increased importance given to … infrastructure development in China; this includes airports, toll roads, communications, ports, power plants and water. The purpose … of this paper is to assess the significance and investment performance of infrastructure in China, the linkages to …
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