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China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety of...
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A unilateral carbon tax trades off the distortionary costs of taxation and the future gains from slowing down global warming. Because the cost is local and immediate, whereas the benefit is global and delayed, this tradeoff tends to be unfavorable to unilateral carbon taxes. We show that this...
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Understanding the impact of international trade on the use of water resources provides a set of interesting ideas and … indirect links between international trade and water resources. It shows that with the right domestic policies and … international trade system, trade in water-related services as well as the transfer of innovation and technologies can efficiently …
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of water rationing. However, the direct abstraction of Blue Water for consumptive use grew 6.38% in the period. In turn … objective of this article is to investigate the role of the technological effect on variations in the volume of water used in … counteract the pressure for the growth of water use in general. From this type of identification, the proposed method can …
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input used in this good production, the so-called indirect use. The objectives of this paper are to map the use of water … along the supply chain in Brazil and to estimate the impacts of adopting less water-intensive technologies on total water … intensity and water withdrawal. For this, the national input-output model was used for the year 2017. These impacts were …
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having experienced them for one month. We find that SC leads to a reduction in water use per shower by 9.4%, RTF by 28 …
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In the Czech Republic, water prices have been steadily increasing while water consumption has been decreasing during … the last decades. A great deal of literature is devoted to the price elasticity of water demand but to the best of our …-run price elasticities of water demand in the Czech Republic between years 2000 and 2011. We find that the water demand is …
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We design a survey to provide quantitative evidence about household demand for qualitative aspects of tap water supply …. We focus on two characteristics that are of importance for households: water hardness and aesthetic quality in terms of … characteristics of tap water quality, and administration targets a representative sample of the population in England and Wales. For …
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Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal … other aspects. The water security approach manages such complexity and proposes a comprehensive view of human security in … relation to the water-related issues. Consequently, the solutions developed in order to face this multi-faceted concept should …
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Despite public approval from the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (Miljøstyrelsen), farmers have proven reluctant to accept wastewater sludge as a source of fertilizer. They are in fact still being paid for accepting it. Based on interviews with key stakeholders, a review of the...
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