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Does ISO14001 raise firms' awareness of environmental protection? : the case of Vietnam
Ni, Bin; Tamechika, Hanae; Otsuki, Tsunehiro; Honda, … - In: Environment and development economics 24 (2019) 1, pp. 47-66
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The Stringency of Environmental Regulations and Trade in Environmental Goods
Sauvage, Jehan - 2014
drives international trade in environmental goods. Many of the measures governments adopt to address issues such as local air … pollution, with important implications for international trade in such equipment. The different indicators of regulatory …-waste management or wastewater treatment. While increased trade in environmental products is not an end in itself, the environmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463420
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Legal Families and Environmental Protection : Is there a Causal Relationship?
DiVita, Giuseppe - 2010
In this paper we build up the analysis of La Porta et al. (1998), to investigate the importance of legal families in explaining the variations in pollution emissions in different countries. The main intuition behind our analysis is that the nations in which the rights of shareholders are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050423
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Big Data at the Crossroads of Antitrust and Consumer Protection
Jin, Ginger Zhe; Wagman, Liad - 2021
The rise of big data in the global economy has led to concerns about antitrust and consumer protection, but policy makers often treat the two areas separately. The separate treatment is justified in classical markets because antitrust tends to focus on firm-to-firm interactions, while consumer...
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'Voluntary' Approaches to Environmental Regulation : A Survey
Lyon, Thomas P.; Maxwell, John W. - 2014
business-led corporate environmental programs, (2) Public voluntary schemes, in which participating firms agree to standards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014038112
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Remanufacturing
Bernard, Sophie - 2010
Remanufacturing is a form of recycling where used durable goods are refurbished to a condition comparable to new products. With reduced energy and resource consumption, remanufactured goods are produced at a fraction of the original cost and with lower emissions of pollution. This paper presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045524
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'Voluntary' Approaches to Environmental Regulation : A Survey
Lyon, Thomas P.; Maxwell, John W. - 2014
business-led corporate environmental programs, (2) Public voluntary schemes, in which participating firms agree to standards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046207
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Making Economic Development and Job Creation Drivers of Serious Action on Climate Change and Environmental Protection
Dernbach, John C. - 2017
development and environment. The narrative, based on conventional development, has a built-in zero-sum game — development or … environment. A competing narrative, which has been slowly gaining supporters over several decades, is built on the idea of … sustainable development — development and environment. The conflict between these narratives goes to the heart of the divide on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014122870
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Valuing Mangrove Conservation in Southern Thailand
Barbier, Edward B.; Sathirathai, Suthawan - 2014
Mangroves are ecologically important coastal wetland systems that are under severe threat globally. In Thailand, the main cause of mangrove conversion is shrimp farming, which is a major source of export income for the country. However, local communities benefit from many direct and indirect...
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Corruption, growth, and the environment : a cross-country analysis
Welsch, Heinz - 2003
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