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Market Mechanisms in Environment Protection as Sustainable Development Factor
Graczyk, Andrzej - 2014
The article presents the opportunities of implementation of market mechanisms in environment protection and using its supplies. Launching market allocation mechanism can have two basic forms: market allocation based on principle of single auction, as well as based on principle of possible...
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The Impact of Public Environmental Protection Expenditure on Economic Growth
Krajewski, Piotr - 2016
The article analyzes the impact of public environmental protection expenditure on economic growth. Estimating the strength of this relationship is of particular importance in the context of the recent global economic crisis. The paper is organized as follows. Firstly, theoretical model showing...
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Chapter 29 The Economics of Biodiversity
Polasky, Stephen; Costello, Christopher; Solow, Andrew - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 3, …, (pp. 1517-1560). 2005
The conservation of biodiversity is a major environmental issue, one that promises to remain at or near the top of the … environmental agenda for the foreseeable future. The loss of biodiversity affects human welfare as well as being lamentable for its … climate regulation. Threats to biodiversity include habitat loss and fragmentation, the introduction of nonindigenous species …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023903
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Economic Growth, International Competitiveness and Environmental Protection : R&D and Innovation Strategies with the Warm Model
Carraro, Carlo; Galeotti, Marzio - 2012
It is often argued that policies designed to protect the environment may harm economic growth. Moreover, if introduced unilaterally by a given country, they may reduce the competitiveness of domestic firms. These arguments are generally based on the assumption that environmental protection has...
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Natural Resources, Development Models and Sustainable Development
Auty, Richard M. - 2003
This paper starts out from the optimistic assumption that the basic policies for environmental economic development are known but uncertainties surround the speed of their adoption. In many developing countries the key obstacle is poor governance: consequently, renewable resources continue to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076310
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Assuming Away the Problem : The Vexing Relationship between International Trade and Environmental Protection
Bratspies, Rebecca M. - 2012
What does global trade mean for the environment of any particular place? It can produce place-based transformations that are both positive and negative. The Kuznets curve is often touted as a solution that resolves the conflict between trade promotion and environmental protection by purporting...
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Can green lobbies replace a world environmental organisation?
Conconi, Paola - 2000
We employ a common agency model to examine how green lobbies affect the determination of trade and environmental policy in two large countries that are linked through trade flows and transboundary pollution. We show that, when governments are not restricted in their ability to use trade...
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Environmental protection and labor market composition
Jaiswal, Sreeja; Balietti, Anca; Schäffer, Daniel - 2023
global biodiversity hotspots with the highest population density. Our findings indicate a noteworthy shift toward non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476213
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Explaining Environmental Kuznets Curves : how pollution induces policy and new technologies
Smulders, Sjak; Bretschger, Lucas - 2000
Production often causes pollution as a by-product. Once pollution problems become too severe, regulation is introduced by political authorities which forces the economy to make a transition to cleaner production processes. We model this transition as a change in "general purpose technology"...
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Socially responsible investments in Germany, Switzerland and the United States : an analysis of investment funds and indices
Schröder, Michael - 2003
The aim of this study is the analysis of so called socially responsible investments (SRI). First, the performance of SRI equity investment funds and equity indices is investigated using Jensen's alpha as performance measure. The analysis considers market timing strategies of the fund management...
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