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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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A comment on "Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China" by Sebastian Axbard and Zichen Deng
La Nauze, Andrea; Tan, Tze Yong - 2024
reproduce the main claims of the paper. We observe minor coding anomalies that do not have a material impact. We find that the …
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Regional and sector environmental efficiency empirical evidence from structural shift-share analysis of NAMEA data
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna - 2009
This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional-national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case studies of Italy and the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome. Shift-share analyses provide evidence on the drivers of environmental efficiency and on sector...
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Green infrastructure and air pollution: evidence from highways connecting two megacities in China
Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang My; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2021
. This paper examines the causal impact of the opening of a heavily used high speed rail line connecting two megacities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705682
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Pollution and Weather Trade-offs for Endurance Events
Nath, Purnendu - 2021
This paper addresses the trade-off between unfavourable air pollution levels and favourable weather conditions for selecting a date for the staging of an outdoor event. For an event date that has been fixed, it presents a personal preference-based data-driven decision framework for individual...
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Solid wastes, poverty and the environment in developing country cities : challenges and opportunities
Medina, Martin - 2010
Many cities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America face serious problems managing their wastes. Two of the major problems are the insufficient collection and inappropriate final disposal of wastes. Despite spending increasing resources, many cities - particularly in Africa and Asia - collect less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660766
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Improved Transportation Networks Facilitate Adaptation to Pollution and Temperature Extremes
Barwick, Panle Jia; Donaldson, Dave; Li, Shanjun; Lin, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The social costs of pollution and climate change hinge critically on humans' ability to adapt. Based on transaction records from the world's largest payment network, this research compiles daily travel flows and documents that China's rapid expansion of high-speed railways (HSR) facilitates the...
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Economic growth and pollution in different political regimes
Kammerlander, Andreas - 2022
4207 I examine the association between nighttime light luminosity and ten pollution measures (CO2, CO, NOx,SO2, NMVOC, NH3, BC, OC, PM10 and PM2.5) across different political regimes at a local level. Although the effects of the political system and economic growth on pollution have been widely...
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Governance, urbanization, and pollution : a cross-country analysis of global south region
Dash, Devi Prasad; Ranjan Behera, Smruti; Rao, D. Tripati; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-24
This paper investigates the impact urbanization, industrialization, corruption, human development, energy consumption …
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Corporate environmental impact : measurement, data and information
Park, D. G.; Freiberg, David; Serafeim, George; … - 2020
As an organization’s environmental impact has become a central societal consideration, thereby affecting industry and … organizational competitiveness, interest in measuring and analyzing environmental impact has increased. We develop a methodology to … derive comparable and scalable monetized environmental impact estimates by applying characterization pathways and …
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