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Is EU enlargement bad for environmental policy? Confronting gloomy expectations with evidence
Skjærseth, Jon; Wettestad, Jørgen - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 7 (2007) 3, pp. 263-280
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Prospects for nuclear energy in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus
Purtov, Oleg - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 30 (2008) 1/2/3/4, pp. 122-145
This paper presents an analysis of the prospects for nuclear energy development in the Eastern European countries of Belarus and Ukraine and in the Caucasian countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The main focus is on Ukraine, but some reference is made to the prospects for energy...
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Race for Sustainability:Energy, Economy, Environment and Ethics
Hickson, Ken - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
, Environment and Ethics.<b>Contents:</b> <ul> <li>Introducing the Race for Sustainability</li> <li>Why Sustainability Matters … interested in sustainability and the environment.<b>Key Features:</b> <ul> <li>Discusses a wide variety of sustainability issues … can each make a difference to better the environment</li> …
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Strategic Options for Bush Administration Climate Policy
Lane, Lee - American Enterprise Institute
What new climate change policies should the federal government adopt?The authorexplores options that policymakers might consider, as well as the costs and benefits of current policies.
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Incentivizing Clean Technology in the Mining Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Role of Public Mining Institutions
Masson, Malaika; Walter, Martin; Priester, Michael - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
How can LAC governments promote the use of clean and green technology in the mining sector and what are the supporting instruments, regulations, infrastructure and institutional aspects that are needed to reinforce this role within public supervisory mining agencies? This technical note explores...
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Taxes and Tradable Permits As Instruments for Controlling Pollution; Theory and Practice
Norregaard, John; Reppelin-Hill, Valérie - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper examines the relative merits of two dominant economic instruments for reducing pollution—”green” taxes and tradable permits. Theoretically, the two instruments share many similarities, and on balance, neither seems preferable to the other. In practice, however, most countries...
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How does mental–physical multimorbidity express itself in lived time and space? A phenomenological analysis of encounters with depression and chronic physical illness
Coventry, Peter A.; Dickens, Chris; Todd, Chris - In: Social Science & Medicine 118 (2014) C, pp. 108-118
framework of the lived body, lived time, lived space, lived relations. Additionally, we re-analysed data (using the same … embodied and emotional encounters with day-to-day life in four ways: [a] participants' perception of lived time and lived space … contracted; [b] time and [c] space were experienced as liminal categories, enforcing negative mood and temporal and spatial …
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Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) scores and the level of disclosure on climate change related activities: an empirical investigation of the FTSE 100 companies
Hassan, Abeer; Wright, Andrew; Struthers, John - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 5 (2013) 1, pp. 36-52
This paper attempts to link Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) scores with the actual level of disclosure as published in the UK FTSE 100 companies' sustainability reports. By investigating the level of disclosure on a range of climate change related activities, the findings suggest that disclosure...
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Efficient International Environmental Agreements for Correlated Transnational Pollutants in the Presence of Free Trade of Goods and International Transfers
Silva, Emilson C. D.; Zhu, Xie - In: Strategic Behavior and the Environment 1 (2011) 2, pp. 175-197
We examine numerous settings in which large strategic nations make environmental policies in the presence of international trade and form coalitions that aim to mitigate global or continental transnational pollution. We show that every nation has incentives to internalize all emission...
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Environmental Security and its Implications for China’s Foreign Relations
Mochizuki, Junko; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
responsibilities. At the same time, environmental stresses caused by China’s energy and resources demands have become increasingly …
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