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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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China’s economic boom has brought about environmental dark sides, i.e., serious air, water, and solid waste pollutions. As the largest developing countries in the world, China’s road toward economic-environmental balance is even complicated since there are various regions of diversified...
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, reduction of social inequity and global pollution. The negative impact on the environment in urban spaces surpasses their …
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air, water, land and soil. The pollution impact of wet processing and fiber production is very detrimental to the … Indian textile industry and provide necessary suggestions. It is found from the study that pollution impact from fiber … formation and wet processing of textiles is spread beyond shop floor but pollution impact of yarn formation and fabric formation …
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estimations show that fiscal policies and energy taxes are important determinants of pollution through various mechanisms. We find …
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. This paper examines the extent to which free transit fares and appeals for car trip avoidance reduce car pollution on … effect is perverse in that it generates an increase in car trips and related pollution. Free fares also increase transit …
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We consider a duopolistic industry in which pollution is a by-product of production and firms are given emission …
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processes. Pollution modelling must be of a multi-output nature. The most flexible transformation function in outputs and inputs … used in textbooks is too general to make sense in pollution modelling. Specifying bads <italic>as if</italic> they are …
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pollution usually bears a lower burden of the tax than the other input, although we find conditions under which this is not true … intensive, but capital is likely to be a better substitute for pollution than is labor. Copyright Springer Japan 2007 …
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