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Envirodevonomics : A Research Agenda for a Young Field
Greenstone, Michael; Jack, B. Kelsey - 2013
Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs. However, existing measures of willingness to pay for environmental quality improvements indicate low valuations by affected households. This paper argues that this seeming paradox...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153855
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Do economic, financial and institutional developments matter for environmental degradation? : evidence from transitional economies
Tamazian, Artur; Bhaskara Rao, Buddhavarapu - 2009
Several studies have examined the relationship between environmental degradation and economic growth. However, most of them did not take into account financial developments and institutional quality. Moreover, Stern (2004) noted that there are important econometric weaknesses in the earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523651
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An Augmented Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) and a New Measure for Water Pollution – Evidence From Africa
Kupzig, Nina; Meier, Johanna; Kupzig, Jenny - 2022
Water pollution constitutes an increasingly urgent problem worldwide. This study investigates an augmented … Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) considering trade and institutional quality for water pollution in Africa. Using data from 2002 to … estimated data on water pollution from the WorldQual model, the global water quality model of the WaterGAP3 Framework. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242685
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Environmental problems and economic development in an endogenous fertility model
Jöst, Frank; Quaas, Martin F.; Schiller, Johannes - 2006
the relationships between population development, economic dynamics and environmental pollution are complex due to various … long-run steady state is optimal that is characterized by a stable pollution stock, and by population and economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003379148
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"Cyberspace ecologism 4.0" : between software softeners of and hardware hardships on the natural environment
Jora, Octavian-Dragomir; Damoc, Adrian-Ioan; Roșca, Vlad I. - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 24 (2022) 59, pp. 9-27
/plunder and degradation/pollution of its scarce resources? This article aims to capture, in an original way, how the translation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990308
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Economic Valuation of a Wetland in West Bengal, India
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - 2010
In the Gangetic flood plain of West Bengal, wetlands are used for multiple purposes, and have significant role in the livelihoods of the local people. Over the years, these Multiple Use Systems (MUSs) are getting converted to single use systems due to economic and social pressure from dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149004
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Involvement in environmental causes, does the joint effect between subjective income and the performance of the country matter?
Melgar, Natalia; Rossi, Máximo - In: REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA DEL ROSARIO (2012)
Abstract:Previous research has shown that richer people are more likely to engage in an environmentalcause. We extend it by considering the joint effect between subjective income and a set of macroeconomicvariables. For doing so, we employ the fifth wave of the World Values Survey (WVS).This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763856
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Valuing the Environment and Its Impact on Formulating Environmental Policies
Tan, Seck - 2014
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the significant differences that would emerge in policy formulation, when environmental capital is explicitly accounted for in macroeconomic analyses. These differences are illustrated with reference to two Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048737
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Pollution externalities in a Schumpeterian growth model
Koesler, Simon - 2010
links the pollution intensity of economic activity to technological progress. In a second step, it investigates the effect … of pollution on economic growth under the assumption that pollution intensities are related to technological progress …. Several conclusions emerge from the model. In equilibrium, the economy follows a balanced growth path. The effect of pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008652548
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Global economic growth and environmental change
Zhang, Wei-Bin - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 64 (2014) 3, pp. 3-29
pollution. It analyzes not only inequalities in income, wealth and economic structures between (any number of) countries, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470656