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During the last two decades CO2 emissions increased rapidly along with the growth of production and energy use in the industrial sector in Thailand. We use the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) method to decompose the source of changes of CO2 emission level and CO2 emission intensity of the...
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Recently, various environmental problems have been generated with the rapid economic development in China. That …'s because China currently over-emphasized economic development beyond environmental issues; therefore, now it is important to … study, we selected Jiaxing city as research area for that the environmental pollution problem has become prominent with …
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This paper aims to correct standard measures of agglomeration economies to account for air pollution generated by …). Epidemiological studies show that atmospheric pollution has a negative and significant impact on human health (see e.g., Currie et al … correcting estimations of agglomeration economies by accounting for air pollution resulting from commuting. More specifically, we …
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This paper studies the effectiveness of building height limits as a policy to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It shows that building height limits lead to urban sprawl and higher emissions from commuting. On the other hand, aggregate housing consumption may decrease which reduces emissions...
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Municipal solid waste (MSW) management contributes substantially to climate change. The greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions from waste collection and landfill activities have a significant contribution. The carbon footprint is an important environmental indicator to express GHG emissions. Nowadays...
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The main objective of the research is to examine the dynamic relationship between energy consumption, CO2 emissions and economic output in ASEAN for the period 1971-2015 using cointegration and causality models. The empirical results from the models suggest that there is a long-run relationship...
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Transportation demands large amounts of fuel. In particular, road transport greatly contributes to both criteria air pollutants and noise within cities. The influence of vehicular traffic on the environmental noise spectrum (as an indirect indicator of energy emission) was measured and assessed...
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sudden expansion and globalization of world economies, pollution embodied in trade flows becomes important for measurement of …
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