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Including non-trade concerns: the environment in EU and US agricultural policy
Baylis, Kathy; Rausser, Gordon C.; Simon, Leo K. - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 4 (2005) 3/4, pp. 262-276
The challenge for any trade agreement is to be adaptable enough to enable countries to address legitimate non-trade concerns (NTC) while being restrictive enough to limit harm to other countries and to assist the creation of free international markets. In this paper, we focus on how...
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How green are principles texts? An investigation into how mainstream economics educates students pertaining to energy, the environment and green economics
Reardon, Jack - In: International Journal of Green Economics 1 (2007) 3/4, pp. 381-393
environment and green economics. The focus is on the principles of economics text which embodies the state of economic knowledge … interdependence between the economy and the environment. US economics education is on a collision course with environmental realities …
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Introductory economics textbooks: what do they teach about sustainability?
Green, Tom L. - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 3 (2012) 2, pp. 189-223
analysis of the coverage of environment-economy linkages in introductory economics textbooks. In North America, introductory … explicitly written to address sustainability. The standard textbooks are found to largely ignore or mischaracterise environment … text and have addressed both environment-economy linkages and the challenge of sustainability with sophistication. …
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The social environment and walking behavior among low-income housing residents
Caspi, Caitlin E.; Kawachi, Ichiro; Subramanian, S.V.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 80 (2013) C, pp. 76-84
environment when linking them to health outcomes. …
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Secondhand Effects of Student Alcohol Use Reported by Neighbors of Colleges: The Role of Alcohol Outlets
Wechsler, Henry; Lee, Jae Eun; Hall, John; Wagenaar, … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2002
This is a study of the secondhand effects of student alcohol use experienced by residents of neighborhoods near college campuses. We examined the relationship of a college's level of binge drinking and the number of alcohol outlets in the immediate area, to lowered quality of neighborhood life...
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Negotiation as a means of developing and implementing environmental policy
Caldart, Charles C.; Ashford, Nicholas Askounes - 1998
In the environmental area, negotiated rulemaking, implementation, and compliance are proposed by their advocates as delivering two primary benefits: reduced rulemaking time and decreased litigation over a final agency rule. The experience to date, however, indicates that negotiated rulemaking...
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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing
Snyder, Lori; Miller, Nolan; Stavins, Robert - 2003
We use a hazard model to estimate the effect of environmental regulation on the diffusion of membrane cell production technology in the chlorine manufacturing industry. We estimate the effect of regulation on both the adoption of the membrane technology at existing plants and on the exit of...
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Imbedding dynamic responses with imperfect information into static portraits of the regional impact of climate change
Yohe, G.W. - 2008
It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...
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Analysis of selected energy security issues related to US crude oil and natural gas exploration, development, production, transportation and processing. Final report, Task 13
2008
In July 1989, President Bush directed the Secretary of Energy to initiate the development of a comprehensive National Energy Strategy (NES) built upon a national consensus. The overall principle for the NES, as defined by the President and articulated by the Economic Policy Council (EPC), is the...
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Environment and labour on the trade agenda: Lessons for India from the TPP Agreement
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2017
This paper undertakes an evaluation of the Labour and Environment chapters of the TPP Agreement, with a view to … on the environment. The paper does not recommend a change in our stance on keeping environment and labour out of … between trade in goods and services with labour and environment and there is no advantage to be gained by developing countries …
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