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Weather, Climate, and Migration in the United States
Mullins, Jamie T.; Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2021
Do people move as a result of temperature shocks? Documenting weather as a push factor for migration is crucial for informing policy related to climate change and adaptation. This paper studies the impacts of high temperature days on out-migration from counties in the US. We find that...
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The Rise of U.S. Food Sustainability Litigation
Tai, Steph - 2014
movement and its rising use of litigation. In particular, it focuses on two growing areas of food sustainability litigation … legal avenues fail to mesh with the values of the food sustainability movements. This article concludes by drawing from … studies of other historical movements and argues that the food sustainability movement, if it is to succeed in transforming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177006
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The Unsustainable Trend of Natural Hazard Losses in the United States
Gall, Melanie; Borden, Kevin A.; Emrich, Christopher T.; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 11, pp. 2157-2181
In the United States, direct losses from natural hazards are on the rise with hurricanes, flooding, and severe storms contributing about three quarters of the total damages. While losses from severe storms have been stable over the past fifty years, hurricane and flood losses have tripled. Per...
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Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis for Biodiversity Risk in the US: A Spatial Econometric Approach
Tevie, Justin; Grimsrud, Kristine M.; Berrens, Robert P. - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 11, pp. 2182-2199
This study investigates whether the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) relationship is supported for a measure of biodiversity risk and economic development across the United States (US). Using state-level data for all 48 contiguous states, biodiversity risk is measured using a Modified Index...
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On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes
Conte, Bruno; Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A unilateral carbon tax trades off the distortionary costs of taxation and the future gains from slowing down global warming. Because the cost is local and immediate, whereas the benefit is global and delayed, this tradeoff tends to be unfavorable to unilateral carbon taxes. We show that this...
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The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua A.; Severnini, Edson R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Historically coal has offered both benefits and costs to urban areas. Benefits include coal's role in fueling industry and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a Rosen-Roback style model to examine how differences in...
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The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson - 2023
Historically coal has offered both benefits and costs to urban areas. Benefits include coal's role in fueling industry and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a Rosen-Roback style model to examine how differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343083
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The historical impact of coal on cities
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2023
Historically coal has offered both benefits and costs to urban areas. Benefits include coal's role in fueling industry and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a Rosen-Roback style model to examine how differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290397
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Testing co-volatility spillovers for natural gas spot, futures and ETF spot using dynamic conditional covariances
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Wang, Yanghuiting - 2016 - Revised: June, 2016
There is substantial empirical evidence that energy and financial markets are closely connected. As one of the most … widely-used energy resources worldwide, natural gas has a large daily trading volume. In order to hedge the risk of natural …, biological or financial asset. Investigating volatility spillovers within and across energy and financial markets is a crucial …
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Regional and sector environmental efficiency empirical evidence from structural shift-share analysis of NAMEA data
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna - 2009
critical points in the energy sector and in some services should be taken into account in shaping the future development of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809696