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Pricing Our Roads : Vision and Reality
Glaister, Stephen; Graham, Daniel J. - 2006
The only significant road pricing scheme in the UK is that introduced by Ken Livingstone in London. But the technology now exists to develop a nationwide scheme of road user charging, with prices to road users varying with the level of congestion in a given area at a given time. The only...
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Social Public Purchasing : Addressing a Critical Void in Public Purchasing Research
Hafsa, Fatima; Darnall, Nicole; Bretschneider, Stuart - 2022
Since governments are the largest buyers globally, they have enormous purchasing power. Government purchasing, therefore, has potential to be leveraged to improve social outcomes, such as helping disadvantaged communities, ensuring labor rights, and minimizing negative environmental impacts....
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Systems of packaging waste recycling in the EU : comparing five different case-studies
Cruz, Nuno F.; Simões, Pedro; Marques, Rui Cunha - 2012
All European Union (EU) member states have to comply with the demanding recycling rates targets that were set for the recovery of packaging waste in the Directive 94/62/EC. Nevertheless, each country has its own system for accomplishing these targets. Some already had national legislation when...
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Are emission performance standards effective in pollution control? : evidence from the EU's large combustion plant directive
Singhal, Puja - 2019 - Revised on May 29, 2019
This paper explores the extent to which emissions limits on stack concentrations under the Large Combustion Plant (LCP) Directive succeeded in mitigating local air pollutants from thermal power stations in the European Union. We take advantage of the discontinuities in regulation status to show...
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Are emission performance standards effective in pollution control? : evidence from the EU's large combustion plant directive
Singhal, Puja - 2018
This paper explores the extent to which the Large Combustion Plant (LCP) Directive succeeded in mitigating local air pollutants from thermal electricity generating plants in the European Union. Using yearly data on plant-level operations from the EEA, we investigate whether emissions limits on...
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Are Emission Performance Standards Effective in Pollution Control? Evidence from the EU's Large Combustion Plant Directive
Singhal, Puja - 2019
This paper explores the extent to which emissions limits on stack concentrations under the Large Combustion Plant (LCP) Directive succeeded in mitigating local air pollutants from thermal power stations in the European Union. We take advantage of the discontinuities in regulation status to show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014109585
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For want of a cup: the rise of tea in England and the impact of water quality on mortality
Antman, Francisca M. - 2022
This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication...
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For Want of a Cup : The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Mortality
Antman, Francisca - 2022
This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083914
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Economists, Environmental Policies and Federalism
Scott, Anthony - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)
. Scott first reviews the history of environmental policy in England, the United States and Canada. He then examines the …. The paper then compares what economists do in Canada in the environmental area compared to that in the United States …, finding that academic environmental economists in Canada specialize more in theory and show little knowledge or interest in …
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Something in the water? : testing for groundwater quality information in the housing market
McLaughlin, Patrick A. - In: Journal of agricultural and resource economics : JARE ; … 36 (2011) 2, pp. 375-394
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