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Amenities and Risk in Forest Management
Brunette, Marielle; Couture, Stéphane; Langlais, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The objective of the paper is to analyze the risk management behavior of a non-industrial private forest owner under uncertainty about timber production. Two types of hedging strategies with harvesting decisions are studied: a financial practice versus a physical one. We develop a two-period...
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Reforms for a Cleaner, Healthier Environment in China
Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
China’s exceptional economic expansion has led to rising energy demand and pollution as well as other environmental … local level, will also be key to further progress. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Survey of China (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/china …
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Tackling Air Pollution in China—What do We Learn from the Great Smog of 1950s in LONDON
Zhang, Dongyong; Liu, Junjuan; Li, Bingjun - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5322-5338
“normal” to most people living in mainland China. This has not only caused serious harm to public health, but also resulted in … massive economic losses in many other ways. Tackling the current air pollution has become crucial to China’s long … the possible solutions by reviewing the current literature, and by comparing China’s air pollution regulations to that of …
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Tracing CO2 emissions in global value chains
Meng, Bo; Peters, Glen; Wang, Zhi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
This paper integrates two lines of research into a unified conceptual framework: trade in global value chains and embodied emissions. This allows both value added and emissions to be systematically traced at the country, sector, and bilateral levels through various production network routes. By...
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Factorial decomposition of CO2 emissions: A generalized Divisia index approach
Vaninsky, Alexander - In: Energy Economics 45 (2014) C, pp. 389-400
automating the calculations is supplied. Factorial analysis of the United States' and China's CO2 emissions is provided as an …
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Analysis of Firm Compliance with Multiple Environmental regulations
Liu, Lirong - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 3, pp. 1695-1705
When a firm is regulated by multiple environmental programs, the firm may manage its compliance with these programs systematically so that the regulation of one program can affect firm decisions regarding compliance with other programs. Faced with budget constraints on compliance expenditure, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676224
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Fiscal federalism and interjurisdictional externalities: New results and an application to US Air pollution
Banzhaf, H. Spencer; Chupp, B. Andrew - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 5, pp. 449-464
The economics of fiscal federalism has identified two book-end departures from first-best provision of a public good. Local governments may respond to local conditions, but ignore inter-jurisdictional spillovers. Alternatively, central governments may internalize spillovers, but impose uniform...
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Atmospheric Pollution, Environmental Justice and Mortality Rate : a Spatial Approach.
Lavaine, Emmanuelle - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2010
This paper presents the first study of environmental inequality related to health in France at the national scale. Through an econometric analysis based on a panel data from 2000 to 2004 at a department level, we investigate total mortality rate in relation to socioeconomic status and air...
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Comparative Studies on Vehicle Related Policies for Air Pollution Reduction in Ten Asian Countries
Hirota, Keiko - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 1, pp. 145-162
Asian countries are facing major air pollution problems due to rapid economic growth, urbanization and motorization. Mortality and respiratory diseases caused by air pollution are believed to be endemic in major cities of these countries. Regulations and standards are the first requirement for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683086
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Firms’ Response and Unintended Health Consequences of Industrial Regulations
Hansman, Christopher; Hjort, Jonas; León, Gianmarco - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015
Regulations that constrain firms’ externalities in one dimension can distort incentives and worsen externalities in other dimensions. In Peru’s industrial fishing sector, the world’s largest, fishing boats catch anchovy that plants along the coast convert into fishmeal. Matching...
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