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Behavioral and distributional effects of environmental policy: Introduction
Carraro, Carlo; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2000
command and control regulation. The starting point for a discussion on efficient environmental policy has been the Pigouvian …
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Product liability: Detecting potential risks in new product
Castellano, Andrea; Ferro, Gustavo; Zanetti, … - 2023
The central hypothesis of this article is that liability regulation can foster firms' incentives to study the … structure under the application of hindsight liability. We find a new role for liability regulation: to foster voluntary …
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Incentives in regulatory DEA models with discretionary outputs: The case of Danish water regulation
Heesche, Emil; Bogetoft Pedersen, Peter - 2021
that the eight-year catch-up period allowed in this regulation gives strong incentives to reduce costs since the firms can …Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) based cost norms have attractive properties in the regulation of natural monopolies … to suboptimal incentives. When a regulated firm compares the marginal change in its cost norm with its marginal cost of …
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Adoption of global investment performance standards: Case of ASEAN
Zelikson, Deborah; Shubita, Moade Fawzi; Wu, JunJie - In: Cogent Business & Management 7 (2020) 1, pp. 1-22
Research on voluntary compliance with accepted international standards has paid overwhelming attention to financial reporting standards, but not to investment performance standards. Previous research on the adoption of the Global Investment Performance Standards has overlooked the unique region...
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Solid waste management in India: An assessment of resource recovery and environmental impact
Ahluwalia, Isher Judge; Patel, Utkarsh - 2018
This study analyses the environmental and financial sustainability of solid waste management in Indian cities. It presents an assessment of the rapidly rising volume of municipal solid waste, its changing composition, the continuing practice of mixing biodegradable (wet) waste with dry waste at...
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An analysis of regulatory policies on solid waste management in the Philippines: Ways forward
Domingo, Sonny N.; Manejar, Arvie Joy A. - 2021
Waste management issues have been hounding both urban and rural communities for decades. The passing of Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, was meant to ensure the protection of public health and environment while encouraging resource conservation and...
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Evolution on the solid urban waste management in Brazil: A portrait of the Northeast Region
Costa, I. M.; Dias, Marta Ferreira - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 878-884
The discussion on the management of urban solid waste gained global contours in the 70's, but its interest in some developing countries is relatively recent. Namely in Brazil, the legislation was only approved in 2010 (Law 12,305). Almost 10 years after the approval of this policy instrument, a...
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Pathways to sustainable waste management in Indian Smart Cities
Cheela, V. R. Sankar; Ranjan, Ved Prakash; Goel, Sudha; … - In: Journal of Urban Management 10 (2021) 4, pp. 419-429
To develop intelligent and sustainable cities, the government of India launched initiatives like Smart Cities and the Clean Development Mission. Solid waste management (SWM) has become one of the primarily focused areas of such initiatives. The changing dynamics of urban waste characteristics...
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Revisiting Metropolitan Governance: Improving the Delivery of Urban Services through Inter-LGU Cooperation
Magno-Ballesteros, Marife; Mercado, Elmer S.; … - 2023
Interlocal cooperation has long been promoted in the Philippines to address resource limitations of local government units; however, there is a lack of discussion on how it can efficiently deliver urban services. This study aims to investigate models of cooperation in the delivery of critical...
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Study on Circular Economy Pathways for Waste Management in the Philippines
Bueta, Gregorio Rafael P.; Domingo, Sonny N.; Manejar, … - 2023
Solid waste management has been a complex and evolving challenge for the Philippines. Since its passage more than two decages ago, Republic Act No. 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 has anchored the country's waste management initiatives. But challenges persist in the...
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