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Just Tell me What my Neighbors Do! Public Policies for Households Recycling
Kirakozian, Ankinée; Charlier, Christophe - Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Économie, Gestion … - 2015
An important stand of the economic literature focuses on how to provide the right incentives for households to recycle … their waste. This body of work includes a growing number of studies inspired by psychology that seek to explain waste … recycle based on three main household characteristics: environmental preferences, opportunity cost of their tax expenditure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274990
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Household Waste Recycling: Economics and Policy
Kirakozian, Ankinée - Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Économie, Gestion … - 2015
This paper provides a review of economic studies that analyse the use of multiple policies to cope with waste … analysed works, the originality of waste as an environmental problem to regulate. This traditional approach that decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147844
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Sustainable Development Concerning with Mankind’s Climate Changes
Dobrescu, Emilian M.; Susanu, Monica; Oprea, Raducan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Mankind has witnessed many outstanding weather happenings which determined radical climate changes and thus, the draught is expected further to grow. Many experts, academics and scientists all over the continents have strongly called for attention about the importance of saving the water, either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596360
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Lumea de azi şi lumea de mâine. Dezvoltare sau supravieţuire?
Gheorghe, Manea - In: Revista OEconomica (2007) 04
The very existence of about one hundred concepts of development confirms the difficulty of dealing with the present world complexity.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464196
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Developing Asia's Competitive Advantage in Green Products: Learning from the Japanese Experience
Iino, Fukuya; Lim, Alva - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2010
Right now, governments around the world are spending record amounts of money to kick-start their economies in response to the financial crisis. Fortunately, a great opportunity exists for this fiscal stimulus to be directed towards "green" economic growth, which can not only provide the new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465499
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Rural domestic waste disposal: an empirical analysis in five provinces of China
Liu, Ying; Huang, Jikun - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 6 (2014), pp. 558-573
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze the different types of domestic waste disposal in rural China and the … major factors that affect rural household waste disposal behavior. Design/methodology/approach – Stratified and randomly … sampled household data are used to describe the disposal of domestic waste in rural China, including domestic garbage and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145175
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Subsidios a hogares para inducir adopción de tecnologías de combustión de leña más eficiente y menos contaminantes: Simulación para el caso de Temuco y Padre Las Casas
Gómez, Walter; Yep, Sue; Chávez, Carlos - In: Estudios de Economia 40, 1 Year 2013, pp. 21-52
Estudiamos el efecto de un subsidio a hogares que incentive el cambio a equipos de combustión de leña más eficientes y menos contaminantes. Se comparan, mediante simulaciones numéricas, diversos diseños de subsidio respecto del impacto sobre emisiones, costo y los indicadores de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667688
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Income, Energy Taxation, and the Environment: An Econometric Analysis
Ghalwash, Tarek - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006
This thesis consists of four papers: two of them deal with the relationship between consumption, energy taxation, and emissions on macro level, and two of them focus on the effects of changes in consumption and income on the environmental quality on a micro level. <p> The main objective of paper...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005424031
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Extraction of natural resources in contexts of abundance and scarcity: An experimental analysis on non-compliance with quotas in management and exploitation areas of benthic resour...
Santis, Oscar; Chávez, Carlos - In: Estudios de Economia 41, 1 Year 2014, pp. 89-123
We study through framed field economic experiment the effects of exogenous changes in abundance levels of a renewable natural resource on compliance individual decisions of users operating under a common property regime and a system of Territorial use rights in fisheries (TURF) considering...
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Does Waste Management Policy Crowd out Social and Moral Motives for Recycling?
Missios, Paul; Ferrara, Ida - Department of Economics, Ryerson University - 2012
In this paper, we consider households' decision of whether to recycle within a theoretical framework that allows for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010567102