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Global Negative Effects of the Technological Change on Human Health : The High Incidence of Cancers in the Anthropocene
Coccia, Mario - 2017
resources depletion, engenders anthropogenic environmental change and pollution of ecosystems conducive to carcinogens. A main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014121679
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The Impact of Renewable Electricity Output on Sustainability in the Context of Circular Economy. A Global Perspective
Laureti, Lucio; Costantiello, Alberto; Leogrande, Angelo - 2022
In this article we investigate the impact of “Renewable Electricity Output” on green economy in the context of circular economy for 193 countries in the period 2011-2020. We use data from World Bank ESG framework. We perform Panel Data with Fixed Effects, Panel Data with Random Effects, WLS,...
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Dirty Dance : Tourism and Environment
Cevik, Serhan - 2022
Tourism was one of the fastest-growing sectors before the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for about 10 percent of global GDP. But it has also created a number of challenges including environmental degradation, especially in small island countries where the carbon footprint of tourism constitute...
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Vintage differentiated regulations and plant survival : evidence from coal-fired plants
Coysh, Daniel; Johnstone, Nick; Koźluk, Tomasz; … - 2019
vintage differentiation of regulations (VDR5) regarding air pollution emission limit values for existing and new coal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990107
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Economic growth and emissions : testing the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for ECOWAS countries
Omotor, Douglason Godwin - In: West African journal of monetary and economic integration 17 (2017) 2, pp. 25-56
The objective of this paper is to establish whether the estimated relationship between environmental degradation and per capita income corroborates the inverted U-shape hypothesis as exemplified by the Environmental Kuznets curves (EKCs) in selected ECOWAS countries. Considering two variants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348367
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Housing environmental risk in urban areas : cross country comparison and policy implications
Chiarini, Bruno; D'Agostino, Antonella; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2017
The main aim of this paper is to assess whether there is a statistically significant environmental impact of cities within European countries. Second, starting from the estimated environmental impact of cities within European countries, the paper investigates whether cross-country variation can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781394
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2014
ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347869
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013
ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229929
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Chapter 60 Past Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
Mendelsohn, Robert - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 3009-3031). 2007
This paper examines the likely impact on agriculture of the climate change which has already taken place between 1960 and 2000. Accumulating greenhouse gases have caused global temperatures to rise approximately 0.25 °C during this period and for precipitation patterns to shift. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024064
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The new urban paradigm
Lanfranchi, Gabriel; Herrero, Ana Carolina; Palenzuela, … - 2018
This policy brief argues in favor of a new urban model that harnesses the power that cities have to curb global warming. Such a model tackles fundamental management challenges in the energy, building and transport sectors to promote the growth of diverse and compact cities. Such a model is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011908104