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Is de-carbonized development possible? Household emissions and renewable energy in developing countries
Seriño, Moises Neil - 2014
Politische Entscheidungsträger stehen heute vor der Herausforderung, dem Klimawandel zu begegnen, ohne das Entwicklungspotential von Entwicklungsländern einzuschränken. In diesem Zusammenhang trägt diese Arbeit zur Beantwortung der Frage bei, ob Entwicklung ohne höheren CO2-Ausstoß...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436272
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A Spatiotemporal Fixed Effects Estimation of U.S. State-Level Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Burnett, J. Wesley; Bergstrom, John C. - 2011
within the data have largely been ignored. By ignoring the spatial aspect of pollution emissions past estimates of the EKC … transboundary pollution emissions between neighbors). By ignoring the spatial aspects within the data several past estimates of the … panel model using a newly proposed robust, spatial fixed effects model. This new estimation scheme is appropriate for panels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444318
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Are there income effects on global willingness to pay for biodiversity conservation?
Jacobsen, Jette; Hanley, Nick - 2008
This paper is concerned with the empirical relationship between biodiversity conservation valuesand income. We use random effects panel models to examine the effects of income, and then GDPper capita, on willingness to pay for habitat and biodiversity conservation. In a meta-analysis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465829
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Implications of Non-stationarity
Perman, Roger; Stern, David I - 1999
In this paper, we apply time series techniques for panel data to the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) model. Within the literature that estimates emissions-income relations in the EKC context, little attention has been paid to the time series properties of the data and in particular to whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451659
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Is There an Environmental Kuznets Curve for Sulfur?
Stern, David I; Auld, Tony; Common, Mick; Sanyal, Kali K - 1998
, leads to estimates where the turning point is at a much lower level than when the EKC is estimated using data for the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451707
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Economic development and de-carbonization paths: Micro and macro perspectives from Indonesia
Irfany, Mohammad Iqbal - 2014
Die drei Essays dieser Dissertation verbinden Themen der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung und des Klimawandels. Alle Essays erörtern die allgemeine Frage wie steigende Einkommen und Austauschbeziehungen in Umweltfragen verbunden werden können und konzentrieren sich dabei auf CO2 Emissionen als...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324350
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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 … pollution continues to be the most visible environmental problem and imposes significant health and economic costs on society …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449679
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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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