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The Impacts of Water Pollution on Economic Development in Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Water pollution is a chronic crisis in Sudan that is rarely researched. However, it is combined with scarcity, disputes … and uncertainty. In The current paper we introduce its concepts with emphasis on the growing problems of pollution … combined with scarcity. A Case study of the growing problem of pollution is introduced and analyzed using economic parameters. …

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Will skyscrapers save the planet?

Borck, Rainald - 2014 - Preliminary and incomplete

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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Carbon emissions, income inequality and environmental degradation : the case of Mediterranean countries

Belaïd, Fateh; Boubaker, Sabri; Kafrouni, Rajwane - In: European journal of comparative economics 17 (2020) 1, pp. 73-102

This study examines the main driving forces affecting short- and long-term CO2 emissions pattern due to changes in growth and income inequality for 11 Mediterranean economies over the period 1990-2012. It proposes an autoregressive dynamic distributive lag dynamic panel specification to (i) test...

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New Insights into Rental Housing Markets Across the United States : Web Scraping and Analyzing Craigslist Rental Listings

Boeing, Geoff; Waddell, Paul - 2016

Current sources of data on rental housing – such as the census or commercial databases that focus on large apartment complexes – do not reflect recent market activity or the full scope of the U.S. rental market. To address this gap, we collected, cleaned, analyzed, mapped, and visualized 11...

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The economic and environmental factors of water in arid regions: Study of the rural water use in Northern Darfur Region, Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

of fossil fuels are basically in the form of environmental pollution, development in the LDCs is rather at a small …

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Theoretical analysis of urban land use change by information provision for Nankai Trough Huge Earthquake in Japan

Miyata, Yuzuru; Shibusawa, Hiroyuki; Mizuno, Kentaro - 2015

This study employs an analytic urban economics approach, assuming that Toyohashi City takes a linear shape and there are two districts where the vulnerabilities to the earthquake in the two districts are different. That is, Toyohashi City is divided into two districts, one is safe for the...

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Market structure and sustainable use of natural resources

Yegorov, Yuri - 2015

Sustainable use of natural resources becomes an important issue today not only due to global warming and pollution …

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Chicken or egg? : transport and urban development in Berlin

Möller, Torsten Kristoffer; Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; … - 2013

Infrastructure and especially mass transit play a major role in urban economics and are the centre of many research questions. Probably due to simultaneous determination of infrastructure supply and demand most research is only carried out on the supply side driven relationship explaining how...

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Identifying agricultural landscape types for Brandenburg, Germany using IACS data

Wolff, Saskia; Hüttel, Silke; Nendel, Claas; Lakes, … - Agricultural Land Markets - Efficiency and Regulation - 2020

The increasing demand for agricultural commodities for food and energy purposes has led to intensified agricultural production. This trend may manifest in agricultural compositions and landscape configurations that can have mixed and adverse impacts on the provision of ecosystem services. We...

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Modernising state-level regulation and policies to boost mobility in the United States

Sutherland, Douglas - 2020

The U.S. population is becoming increasingly urban and has gradually shifted to the south and west. Policy restrictions have played a role in preventing dynamic areas expanding, and when they do expand it can be through low-density housing sprawl. Land use restrictions and a sluggish housing...

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