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Deals with the linkages among growth, employment and environmental pollution or degradation, by analysing the national press coverage of environmental issues. Takes into account political and socioeconomic transformations from 1973 to 1992.
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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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the mining sector. In the last decade, many developing countries have significantly reoriented their mining laws and … policies to attract global investment. In a study conducted in 2001 by the World Bank, ‘Mining Sector reforms and Investmentâ … other resource countries such as Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, and Indonesia. It is imperative that the bottlenecks in …
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This paper presents a structural equation model of happiness, as influenced by inter alia perceived risk due to (i) intensity of exposure to polluted air, and (ii) hazard of pollutants. In addition, objective risk measured as proximity to the pollution source, is considered. The main finding is...
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The aim of this paper is to examine the supply risk of rare earths and its impact on low carbon technologies deployment. Bringing together seemingly disconnected strands of scientific literature, this multidisciplinary approach allows to provide an overarching overview of the economics of rare...
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This paper considers how energy-related external costs change through time. It focuses on one of the key periods in the history of energy. After a period of declining coal prices and soaring consumption which fuelled the Second Industrial Revolution, the nineteenth century British economy was...
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on the benefits of the mining sector for economy-wide growth and development in Chile. This paper identifies some of the … good practice areas in mining regulation in Chile whose economy has shown strong growth over most of the last two decades … social welfare from their extraction. Some resource-rich countries, such as Chile, have been successful in developing their …
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Improvement, Incentives, Process Reengineering, Transfer Prices and others. To illustrate these concepts, a Chilean mining company …
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, led by Chile. We point out that population density, negotiation strategies, environmental performance, distribution of … profits and the local notion of social rights are the major steering forces of environmental conflicts in the mining sector …
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