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An interregional hedonic analysis of noxious facility impacts on local wages and property values
Clark, D.E.; Nieves, L.A. - 2008
Claims of property value loss are commonly raised by homeowners when noxious facilities are sited or when new information about the hazards of existing facilities is made public. While the capitalization of externalities into land values is consistent with economic theory, empirical measurement...
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An interregional hedonic analysis of noxious facility impacts on local wages and property values
Clark, D.E.; Nieves, L.A. - 2008
Claims of property value loss are commonly raised by homeowners when noxious facilities are sited or when new information about the hazards of existing facilities is made public. While the capitalization of externalities into land values is consistent with economic theory, empirical measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436936
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Estimation of expected value for lognormal and gamma distributions. [Environmental pollutants]
White, G.C. - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435692
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A TALE OF TWO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS: TUNISIA AND MOROCCO
Friedman, Steven J - 2010
Morocco and Tunisia have both achieved robust economic growth over the last 30 years by utilizing prudent economic planning and implementation. The World Bank heralds both countries as prime examples of how market-friendly capitalist systems can be implemented over a short period of time with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439124
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A munkamegosztás gazdaságszociológiai elmélete: Szociológiatörténeti szöveggyűjtemény
Szántó, Zoltán - 1990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162138
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Audit of the Department of Energy's Contracts with Envirocare of Utah, Inc.
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Inspector General, … - 1997
The Department of Energy (Department) is responsible for protecting human health and the environment by providing an … effective and efficient system that treats, stores, and disposes of Departmental waste. The Department disposes of some of its … waste at Envirocare of Utah, Inc., (Envirocare) a commercial treatment and disposal facility in Clive, Utah. The audit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468697
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Individual-based modeling of fish: Linking to physical models and water quality.
Rose, K.A. - 2009
The individual-based modeling approach for the simulating fish population and community dynamics is gaining popularity. Individual-based modeling has been used in many other fields, such as forest succession and astronomy. The popularity of the individual-based approach is partly a result of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436396
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Examining the Effects of Ecological and Political Boundaries on the Potential for Water Quality Trading: Lessons from a Southeastern Trading Framework
Keiser, David A.; Mullen, Jeffrey D.; Bergstrom, John C.; … - 2009
Water quality trading (trading) as a means to improve water quality has become an increasingly popular instrument considered by environmental policy makers. Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lists more than forty current trading programs in the U.S., only a few active markets...
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An analysis of SO sub 2 emission compliance under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments
Hanson, D.A.; Cilek, C.M.; Pandola, G.; Taxon, T. - 2008
The effectiveness of SO{sub 2} emission allowance trading under Title 4 of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act (CAA) is of great interest due to the innovative nature of this market incentive approach. However, it may be a mistake to frame the compliance problem for a utility as a decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435386
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The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Great Lakes economy: Challenges and opportunities
Hanson, D.; Molburg, J.; Pandola, G.; Taxon, T.; Lurie, G. - 2008
This paper deals with the market for SO{sub 2} emission allowances over time and electric utility compliance choices. For currently high emitting plants ( 2.5 lb SO{sub 2}/MMBtu), the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) provide for about twice as many SO{sub 2} allowances to be issued per year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435433