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Interactions between Climate and Trade Policies: A Survey

Galeotti, Marzio; Kemfert, Claudia - 2004

Economic globalization affects the environment and sustainable development in several ways and through various channels. The purpose of this paper is to review the key links between globalization and the environment. The paper intends to consider the major issues in multilateral economic...

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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....

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The impact of trade and economic growth on the environment: revisiting the cross-country evidence

Abdulai, Awudu; Ramcke, Linda - 2009

This paper explores the interrelations between economic growth, international trade and environmental degradation both theoretically and empirically. Panel data from developed and developing countries for the period of 1980 to 2003 is used and previous critique, especially on the econometric...

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Natural resources: Curse or blessing?

van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2010

Are natural resources a 'curse' or a 'blessing'? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a resource...

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Quantifying sustainability: A new approach and world ranking

Carraro, Carlo; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio; … - 2012

evolution of all indicators over time throughout the world, and (ii) the aggregation methodology to reconcile them in one … current sustainability at world level differs from what the traditional measure of well-being, the GDP, depicts, highlighting … the trade-offs among different components of sustainability. Moreover, in the next decade a slight decrease in world …

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The Stability of the Adjusted and Unadjusted Environmental Kuznets Curve

Becchetti, Leonardo; Auci, Sabrina - 2005

In our paper, we test the stability of the unadjusted and adjusted Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Our results provide evidence in favour of the significance of the adjusted EKC hypothesis in which the impact of per capita GDP on the intensity of CO2 emissions is evaluated conditionally to...

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Sustainable greenhouse policies: The role of non-CO 2 gases

Michaelis, Peter - 1997

This paper investigates the economic implications of a comprehensive approach to sustainable greenhouse policies that strives to stabilise the atmospheric concentration of the five major greenhouse gases at an ecologically determined threshold level. In a theoretical optimisation model...

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The Growth-Environment Trade-off: Horizontal vs Vertical Innovations

Grimaud, André; Ricci, Francesco - 1999

This paper explores the trade-off between economic growth and environmental quality along two paradigms of endogenous growth theory: variety expansion (HIP) and quality improvements (VIP). We compare the policies that match the decentralised economies' paths with the optimal "strong sustainable"...

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On the art of aggregating "apples & oranges"

Jesinghaus, Jochen - 2000

The Communication on Environmental Indicators and Green National Accounting (Com (94) 670 final, 21.12.94) laid the basis for indicator and accounting projects aimed to give comprehensive support to environmental policy, like GARP and GreenStamp. The article is intended to demonstrate: that...

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Measuring progress towards sustainable development in Venice: A comparative assessment of methods and approaches

Sors, Julie Catherine - 2001

Sustainable development is a relatively well-known concept. Although there are many definitions, the underlying concepts and aims are generally agreed upon. Many local communities have established a 'vision' of sustainability in terms of policies, goals, actions, etc in order to translate...

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