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El cambio climático, su gestión y mitigación, constituye sin duda uno de los elementos de riesgo más importantes que afrontará nuestra sociedad en las próximas décadas. El sector financiero desempeña un papel fundamental en este reto, tanto por su exposición y las consiguientes...
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Climate change and its management and mitigation are unquestionably among the main risks facing our society in the coming decades. The financial sector plays a key role in this challenge, firstly because of its exposure and the consequent capital shocks if this risk crystallises, and secondly...
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Concentrations of environmental pollutants tend to follow positively skewed frequency distributions. Two such density functions are the gamma and lognormal. Minimum variance unbiased estimators of the expected value for both densities are available. The small sample statistical properties of...
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quantitative analysis of the effects of these reforms on total emissions and fuel economy in three different states of the world …
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This paper develops a pollution model of trade in differentiated goods. Our analyses show the following: first, the … number of firms in the economy. Third, we examine the relationship between openness to trade and the environment. The impact … empirical analysis to test the integrated theoretical predictions of the pollution models of intra-industry as wells as inter …
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Policy and planning for the provision of water supply and sanitation services in developing countries. Reviews available technologies, but emphasizes the planning and policy process, including economic, social, environmental, and health issues. Incorporates considerations of financing, pricing,...
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There is a growing concern over our reliance on conventional electricity sources and their long-term environmental, climate change, and security of supply implications, and much hope is vested in the ability of future technological progress to tackle these issues. However, informed academic...
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environment but also an important tool if reduced population growth is an objective. Third, reducing poverty is an important … high population growth. According to the vicious circle theory, natural resource scarcity coupled with poverty leads to … population growth via positive effects on fertility particularly in rural areas of developing countries. Population growth then …
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This research advances four theoretical approaches in an attempt to relate the banking activities to the real economic activities. It starts with the Schumpeter’s circular flow of creditary production that argues that the banks start the production cycle for offering the credits that enable...
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, property taxes and population density on landowner decisions to sell, subdivide, or withdraw their properties from the use …, population density, and acreage value of the tract. Increases in population density, acreage value, and taxes paid, raised the … deciding to withdraw from the use-value program increased with higher population density, but declined with increases in …
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