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The Basic Environmental Economics of the Circular Economy
Sorensen, Peter Birch - 2017
This paper sets up a Ramsey model with exhaustible natural resources to study the optimal recycling of polluting raw … an initial “linear” phase with no recycling followed by a “circular” phase where some materials and waste products are … recycled to alleviate growing natural resource scarcity and environmental degradation. Ensuring the optimal degree of recycling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944296
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Evaluating environmental sustainability in Africa : the role of environmental taxes, productive capacities, and urbanization dynamics
BenYoussef, Adel; Dahmani, Mounir - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 4, pp. 1-24
This study examines the complex relation among environmental taxes, productive capacities, urbanization, and their collective effects on environmental quality in Africa, drawing on two decades of data from twenty African countries. It situates the study within the broader discourse on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635951
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Pollution havens? : carbon taxes, globalization, and the geography of emissions
Schroeder, Christofer; Stracca, Livio - 2023
's borders - and consumption emissions - emissions emitted anywhere in the world to satisfy domestic demand. We find that carbon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481125
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Land competitiveness and leakage concerns and border carbon adjustments
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2012
level the carbon playing field and could have potential conflicts with World Trade Organization (WTO) provisions and … Adjustments ; Grandfathering ; Output-Based Allocation ; World Trade Organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009634265
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Is a Voluntary Approach an Effective Environmental Policy Instrument? A Case for Environmental Management Systems
Arimura, Toshi H.; Hibiki, Akira; Katayama, Hajime - 2014
Using Japanese facility-level data from an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development survey, we estimate the effects of implementation of ISO14001 and publication of environmental reports on the facilities' environmental performance. While most previous studies focused on an index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225469
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Global Ecological Governance and Ecological Economy
Zhang, Weiguo (ed.); Yu, Fawen (ed.) - 2022
Society (CEES), the first ecological economics society in the world, and many cutting-edge concepts in the field of ecological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210142
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Environmental subsidies to mitigate transition risk
Jondeau, Eric; Levieuge, Grégory; Sahuc, Jean-Guillaume; … - 2022
by 2060. We develop and estimate an environmental dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model for the world economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202810
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Handbook of the circular economy
Brandão, Miguel (ed.); Lazarevic, David (ed.);  … - 2020
analysis of recycling systems / Sarah Schmidt and David Laner -- 9. An element flow analysis approach to support the circular … economy / Rajib Sinha, Rafael Laurenti, Jagdeep Singh and Björn M. Frostell -- 10. Modelling material recycling in life cycle … nutrient recycling / Helena Valve, Petri Ekholm and Sari Luostarinen -- 28 understanding forest-based value creation in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416725
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Prometheus Framework for Public Policy Decisions on Environmental Health Risks
Stavroglou, Stavros K.; Pantelous, Athanasios A.; … - 2023
Wildfires, suspended soil and other particulates, and industrial emissions combine to raise the urgency of air quality as a planetary threat. This paper introduces Prometheus, a proactive decision-making framework for managing environmental and health risks associated with air pollution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345380
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A Framework for Assessing Green Growth Policies
de Serres, Alain - 2010
This paper proposes an analytical framework for assessing policies that will contribute to a better integration of environmental externalities in the pursuit of economic efficiency and growth objectives. The framework consists of two parts. The first part lays out principles and criteria for the...
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