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This paper discusses the merits and limits of the recent European energy policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions, devoting particular attention to the European Trading System of carbon permits and to the measures that the European Union has adopted to promote renewable energy sources. From the...
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production. Production exhibits increasing returns to scale on aggregate. Urban environmental pollution, as a force that …
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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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assimilates pollution and how pollution affects life on earth. In this paper, an assimilation function is specified that is …
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Increased transportation demand creates new problems specialists, putting them in a position to find practical solutions to match. Analysis of the current structure of Romanian road transport process involves an analytical approach that exceed the basis of their decisions only experience and...
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John Kenneth Galbraith famously argued that many of the health problems faced by modern advanced economies were a result of increased consumption, ushered in by the large corporation. Although attracting a degree of attention and notoriety around the time of publication, Galbraith's analysis of...
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, agricultural pollution and secondly, salinization (from natural mineralization of groundwater and from anthropogenic effects). High ….) made the greatest contribution to nitrate pollution and salinization. Use of the groundwater for human consumption in …
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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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) a transition to integrated pest management to halt the pollution of groundwater from agricultural runoff; and 3) the …
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