This thesis investigates several selected environmental issues in China from an economic perspective. It consists of four self-contained papers. Chapters 2-4 address the issues related to water shortage, while Chapter 5 focuses on the cost of air pollution. Chapter 2 analyses the potential...

Cap-and-trade programs for air emissions have become the widely accepted, preferred approach to cost-effective pollution reduction. One of the important design questions in a trading program is how to initially distribute the emissions allowances. Under the Acid Rain program created by Title IV...

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is an effort by nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to develop a regional, mandatory, market-based cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity sector. The initiative is expected to lead to an increase in the...

Numerous air pollution regulations affecting petroleum refineries recently have been promulgated, have been proposed, or are under consideration at the federal, state, and local level. As shown in Figure ES-1, all of these environmental regulations are intended to take effect over the relatively...

This paper examines the interdependence between imperfect competition and emis-sions trading in a two-sector (clean and dirty) economy. We compare the welfare implica-tions of an absolute cap-and-trade scheme (permit trading) with a relative intensity-basedscheme (credit trading). We nd...

Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...

Seit Start des EU-weiten Emissionshandels am 1. Januar 2005 können emissionsintensive Industrieanlagen und Anlagen der Energiewirtschaft erste Erfahrungen mit dem Handel von Emissionsberechtigungen machen.Eine im Mai 2005 durchgeführte Befragung hatte deshalb zum Ziel, Informationen zu den...

Im Rahmen der internationalen Verhandlungen zum Klimaschutz haben sich die Industrieländer zur Deckelung ihres Treibhausgasausstoßes verpflichtet. Um die Industriestaaten bei der Umsetzung dieser klimapolitischen Verpflichtungen zu entlasten und gleichzeitig die Entwicklungsländer auf dem Weg...