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Electoral incentives and firm behavior : evidence from U.S. power plant pollution abatement
Doyle, Matthew; Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; … - 2016
Researchers have utilized the fact that many states have term limits (as opposed to being eligible for re-election) for governors to determine how changes in electoral incentives alter state regulatory agency behavior. This paper asks whether these impacts spill over into private sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547829
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Electoral Incentives and Firm Behavior: Evidence from U.S. Power Plant Pollution Abatement
Doyle, Matthew; Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian A.; … - 2016
Researchers have utilized the fact that many states have term limits (as opposed to being eligible for re-election) for governors to determine how changes in electoral incentives alter state regulatory agency behavior. This paper asks whether these impacts spill over into private sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555569
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Incorporating time lags and uncertainty in cost-benefit analysis of water quality improvements : a case study of Limfjorden, Denmark
Larsen, Tobias Holmsgaard; Lundhede, Thomas; Olsen, … - 2021
Cost-benefit analyses are commonly applied to assess the net welfare effects of policies to improve surface water quality. These analyses often disregard the biophysical fact that from implementation of policy measures to resulting improvements on water quality there will typically be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422194
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Resolving Water-Use Conflicts : Insights from the Prairie Experience for the Mackenzie River Basin
Percy, David - 2012
The southern regions of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan suffer from periodic drought more than any other part of … for the use of prairie rivers, the two provinces joined with the governments of Manitoba and Canada to enter into an … Canada. They depend heavily on rivers that rise in the Rocky Mountains and traverse all three provinces to their outlet on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171443
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Cost Effective Non-Point Source Pollution Control : Mandatory BMPs v.s. Ambient Subsidies in the Florida Everglades
Bao, Ken - 2022
On a theoretical front, environmental economists have one last pollution problem to contend with and that is the issue of non-point source pollution (NPSP). The issue of NPSP is important on many levels but central to this field is how to efficiently regulate what you cannot observe? A promising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080141
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Socio-economic Risks of Groundwater Vulnerability, Contamination & Earthquakes : Revisiting The Izmit (1999) and Kahramanmaras (2023) Earthquakes in Turkiye
Bayraktar, Dr. Murat - 2023
Human activity is almost invariably the cause of groundwater contamination. Groundwater is particularly at risk in … purposeful or unintentional release of chemicals or wastes into the environment has the possibility of polluting groundwater …. Cleaning up after groundwater contamination is challenging and expensive.The Kahramanmaras region has suffered an unimaginable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358165
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Navigating pathways to reform water policies in agriculture
Gruère, Guillaume; Le Boëdec, Hélène - 2019
: charging water use in agriculture; removing subsidies that negatively impact water resources, regulating groundwater use and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998944
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Improving drinking water quality in South Korea : a choice experiment
Gschwandtner, Adelina; Jang, Cheul; McManus, Richard - 2017
Increased pollution leads to a constant decrease of drinking water quality worldwide. Due to safety concerns, unpleasant taste and odour only about 3% of the population in South Korea is drinking untreated tap water. The present study uses choice experiments and cost-benefit analysis to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775003
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Ground Water Pollution and Emerging Environmental Challenges of Industrial Effluent Irrigation : A Case Study of Mettupalayam Taluk, Tamilnadu
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Nelliyat, Prakash - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Industrial disposal of effluents on land and subsequent pollution of groundwater and soil of surrounding farmlands is a … effluents on land, which has limited capacity to assimilate the pollution load, has led to groundwater pollution. Ground water … groundwater fo irrigation has resulted in increased salt conent of soils. In some locations drinking water wells (deep bore wells …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363651
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Unintended Consequences of Indian Groundwater Preservation Law on Crop Residue Burning
Agarwala, Meghna; Bhattacharjee, Shampa; Dasgupta, Aparajita - 2022
This paper examines the unintended consequences of a policy aimed at improving the groundwater level on crop residue … paddy before mid-June to preserve groundwater. Theoretically, this leaves a short window of time for clearing the field …
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