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Chapter 7. Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics: Opportunities and challenges
Deschenes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : Volume 4, (pp. 285-332). 2018
This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: (i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...
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Resolving Water-use Conflicts: Insights from the Prairie Experience for the MacKenzie River Basin
Percy, David R. - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2012) 341
The southern regions of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan suffer from periodic drought more than any other part of Canada. They depend heavily on rivers that rise in the Rocky Mountains and traverse all three provinces to their outlet on Hudson Bay. In 1969, after a prolonged period of...
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Seafloor Mapping of the Atlantic Ocean by GMT : Visualizing Mid-Atlantic Ridge Spreading, Sediment Distribution and Tectonic Development
Lemenkova, Polina - 2020
The study presents the insights of the tectonic development and geological settings of the Atlantic Ocean supported by cartographic visualization in Generic Mapping Tools (GMT). The aim is to study geologic situation and trends in the tectonic development of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Atlantic...
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The impacts of pollution and exposure pathways on home values: A stated preference analysis
Guignet, Dennis - In: Ecological Economics 82 (2012) C, pp. 53-63
, expressing environmental risks in terms of (i) the presence of an exposure pathway, and (ii) pollution concentrations. This … mimics information provided to Maryland households whose groundwater is actually impacted by a LUST. …
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Distributing Pollution Rights in Cap-and-Trade Programs: Are Outcomes Independent of Allocation?
Fowlie, Meredith; Perloff, Jeffrey M. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 5, pp. 1640-1652
Standard economic theory predicts that if property rights to pollute are clearly established, equilibrium outcomes in an efficient emissions permit market will be independent of how the emissions permits are initially distributed. This so-called independence property has important implications...
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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...
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A new look at the pollution halo hypothesis : the role of environmental policy stringency
Akbulut, Hale; Yereli, Ahmet Burçin - In: Estudios de economía 50 (2023) 1, pp. 31-54
The effect of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, has attracted the attention of researchers in recent years. However, the indirect effects of environmental policies in the process were not sufficiently considered. This study uses a panel threshold methodology to...
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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...
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Valuing public goods using happiness data: The case of air quality
Levinson, Arik - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 9-10, pp. 869-880
pollution and weather on the date and in the place they were surveyed. People with higher incomes report higher levels of … happiness, and people interviewed on days with worse local air pollution report lower levels of happiness. Combining these two … differential for short-term changes in air pollution. …
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An economic analysis of the reservoirs reclamation methods in the K±odnica River catchment
Dubel, Anna - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 18 (2018) 1, pp. 103-113
Reclamation and rehabilitation of water reservoirs is particularly important for their functioning and fulfilment of their economic, social, natural and other functions. The paper presents a case study of the ex-ante economic analysis used to determine the most suitable reservoirs reclamation...
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