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Regulation of Radioactive Fracking Wastes

Geltman, Elizabeth; LeClair, Nichole - 2018

radioactive materials (TENORM) and/or NORM waste from oil and gas operations to evaluate which states have developed the most … protective practices when regulating NORM and TENORM waste from unconventional oil and gas operations to reduce adverse … and health measures in states where inadequacies could potentially harm humans, animals, and the environment …

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Coal and Affluence

Edin, Karl-Axel - 2015

The present affluence in the industrial world is the result of a long process starting 300 years ago with the invention of the steam engine and the gradual replacement of fire-wood by coal. Together with the later combustion engine the steam engine now sup-plies 80 percent of the power...

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Instrument mixes for environmental policy : how many stones should be used to kill a bird?

Braathen, Nils Axel - In: International review of environmental and resource economics 1 (2007) 2, pp. 185-235

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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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Relationship between recycling rate and air pollution in Britain

Giovanis, Eleftherios - In: The empirical economics letters : a monthly … 13 (2014) 1, pp. 1-8

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The anatomy of a trade collapse : the UK, 1929-33

De Bromhead, Alan; Fernihough, Alan; Lampe, Markus; … - 2018

A recent literature explores the nature and causes of the collapse in international trade during 2008 and 2009. The decline was particularly great for automobiles and industrial supplies; it occurred largely along the intensive margin; quantities fell by more than prices; and prices fell less...

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From regional to intercontinental trade : the successive European trade empires from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century in Asia

Bensassi, Sami - 2010

For a very long time, the areas available for continuous long-distance trade were limited to territories the size of Braudel's Mediterranée (1949). Whatever the commercial organizations (merchants in the Roman or the Fatimid Empires, the Hanseatic League, the Florentine Companies), their trade...

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Paying too much for energy? : the true costs of our energy choices

Greenstone, Michael; Looney, Adam - 2012

Energy consumption is critical to economic growth and quality of life. America's energy system, however, is malfunctioning. The status quo is characterized by a tilted playing field, where energy choices are based on the visible costs that appear on utility bills and at gas pumps. This system...

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Satanic Mills? : an illustration of Victorian external environmental accounting

Solomon, Jill Frances; Thomson, Ian - In: Accounting forum : advancing the interdisciplinary and … 33 (2009) 1, pp. 74-87

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Atmospheric Pollution and Child Health in Late Nineteenth Century Britain

Bailey, Roy E. - 2016

Atmospheric pollution was an important side effect of coal-fired industrialisation in the nineteenth century. In Britain emissions of black smoke were on the order of fifty times as high as they were a century later. In this paper we examine the effects of these emissions on child development by...

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