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Institutional adaptation to global environmental change
Jordan, Andrew; O'Riordan, Timothy - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000942708
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Can Information and Communication Technology and Institutional Quality Help Mitigate Climate Change in E7 Economies? An Environmental Kuznets Curve Extension
Akwasi Gyamfi, Bright; Benjamin, Asiedu; Bekun, Festus; … - 2022
Understanding the role of information communication and technology (ICT) in environmental issues stemming from extensive energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission in the process of economic development is worthwhile both from policy and scholarly fronts. Motivated on this premise, the study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077800
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Chapter 21. Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change
Popp, David; Newell, Richard G.; Jaffe, Adam B. - 2010
Within the field of environmental economics, the role of technological change has received much attention. The long-term nature of many environmental problems, such as climate change, makes understanding the evolution of technology an important part of projecting future impacts. Moreover, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025150
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The link between carbon emissions, agricultural output and industrial output: evidence from South Africa
Sibanda, Mabutho; Ndlela, Hlengiwe - In: Journal of business economics and management 21 (2020) 2, pp. 301-316
This study seeks to establish the relationship between carbon emissions, agricultural output and industrial output in South Africa. It uses data from 1960 to 2017 based on an annual frequency, giving a total of 58 annual observations. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag technique is employed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197460
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Climate change and Kuznets curve : Portuguese experience
Leitão, Nuno Carlos - 2018
Climate change has inspired the interest of the academic community in the most diverse areas of knowledge. This study tests and revisits the environmental Kuznets curve assumptions for Portugal. The econometric strategy used in this research is time series (ARIMA model, OLS estimator, ARCH...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011824179
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The environment, tourist transport and the sustainable development of tourism
Ioncică, Diana; Ioncică, Maria; Petrescu, Eva-Cristina - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016), pp. 898-912
The article explores the complex relationships between the natural environment , tourist transport and sustainable tourism development. In order to research the impact of natural resources on tourism activity, on the one hand, and the influences of tourism on the environment, on the other hand,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011833756
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2014
ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347869
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013
ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229929
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Convergence in total greenhouse gas emissions worldwide
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2023
This paper examines convergence patterns in total greenhouse gas emissions across 114 countries from 1990 to 2019. Prior research has largely focused on one representative greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide emissions, but our goal is to broaden the study. We use the club convergence test to contrast...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014331561
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Climate activism favors pro-environmental consumption
Marini, Marco; Nocito, Samuel - 2023
We investigate whether climate activism favors pro-environmental consumption by examining the impact of Fridays for Future (FFF) protests in Italy on second-hand automobile transactions in the strike-affected areas. Leveraging data on 10 million automobile transactions occurring before and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438552