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The Circular Economy
Fullerton, Don - 2024
Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014574292
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The circular economy
Fullerton, Don - 2024
Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529224
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Policy Interventions to Address Health Impacts Associated with Air Pollution, Unsafe Water Supply and Sanitation, and Hazardous Chemicals
Hunt, Alistair - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2011
The purpose of the paper is to review the recent empirical literature relating to the quantification and valuation of the human health impacts of air pollution, hazardous chemicals, and unsafe water and sanitation, and their use in cost-benefit analysis, as an input to environmental policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009146864
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The economics of recycling heterogeneity
Fullerton, Don; Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 2024
This paper summarizes the economics perspective on recycling of municipal solid waste. The first section reviews recent data on recycling rates in the United States and across all OECD countries. The OECD data suggest the average aggregate recycling rate across member countries appears to have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061148
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Consumer's guide to regulatory impact analysis : ten tips for being an informed policymaker
Dudley, Susan E.; Belzer, Richard Burton; Blomquist, … - In: Journal of benefit-cost analysis : JBCA 8 (2017) 2, pp. 187-204
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761665
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Modeling growth, distribution, and the environment in a stock-flow consistent framework
Naqvi, Asjad - 2015
environment. In order to assess policies that address these issues simultaneously, economic models need to account for both sector …-sector and sector-environment feedbacks within a single framework. This paper presents a multi-sectoral stock- flow consistent …, government, and financial - interacts with the environment. The model is calibrated for the EU region and five policy scenarios …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410859
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Does Access to Health Care Mitigate Environmental Damages?
Mullins, Jamie; White, Corey - 2019
Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in the health effects of environmental exposure, yet little causal evidence exists to support such claims. We test this hypothesis by utilizing exogenous variation in both access to health care and environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179910
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Inequality and the Environment: The Economics of a Two-Headed Hydra
Drupp, Moritz A.; Kornek, Ulrike; Meya, Jasper N.; … - 2021
consider interactions with the other. We synthesize theoretical mechanisms that underpin inequality-environment interlinkages … appraisal. We argue that it is crucial to consider inequality-environment interlinkages even if one’s primarily concern is one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799747
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Modeling growth, distribution, and the environment in a stock-flow consistent framework
Naqvi, Syed Ali Asjad - 2015 - This is a revised version of the paper originally published in November 2014
environment. In order to assess policies that address these issues simultaneously, economic models need to account for both sector …-sector and sector-environment feedbacks within a single framework. This paper presents a multi-sectoral stock- flow consistent …, government, and financial - interacts with the environment. The model is calibrated for the EU region and five policy scenarios …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336592
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Green and brown? : globalization and the environment
Boyce, James K. - 2004
Globalization - viewed as a process of economic integration that embraces governance as well as markets - could lead to worldwide convergence toward higher or lower environmental quality, or to environmental polarization in which the 'greening' of the global North is accompanied by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527046