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Asymmetric Dynamics of Environmental Bearings of Trade and Energy Consumption in Pakistan

Yasin, Iftikhar - 2020

This study endeavors to investigate asymmetric bearing of energy use, composition effect, foreign trade, and economic prosperity, on the carbon dioxide emanation of Pakistan from 1970 to 2015. This study adopts nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model methodology to cointegration...

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Effects of Urbanization on Climate Change : Evidence From Bangladesh

Murshed, Muntasir - 2018

Urbanization is believed to be a driving force of an economy which facilitates the transfer of surpluslabor from the rural agricultural sector to the urban industrial sector and contributes to economic development. However, unplanned urbanization can at times boomerang, exerting negative impacts...

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Pollution Haven and Corruption Paradise

Candau, Fabien - 2016

In this paper, we propose a new perspective to analyze the impact of institutions, environmental standards, and globalization on relocations of polluting firms in countries with lax environmental regulation (called pollution havens). Via a simple theoretical extension from the Economic Geography...

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Circular Economy

Camilleri, Mark Anthony; Sheehy, Benedict; Fraser, Kym - 2023

This contribution features the submission of one of the most important sustainability keywords to Springer's Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. It provides a definition and an introduction to the circular economy (CE). It describes key policies and regulatory interventions that are meant to...

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Biodiversity Risk

Giglio, Stefano; Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We explore the effects of physical and regulatory risks related to biodiversity loss on economic activity and asset values. We first develop a news-based measure of aggregate biodiversity risk and analyze how it varies over time. We also construct and publicly release several firm-level measures...

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Impact of Trade in Environmentally Preferable Products and Clean Technologies on Economic Growth and Environmental Quality : Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries and in OECD...

Ben Zineb, Selima - 2019

The aim of this paper is to estimate the indirect and the direct effects of trade in Environmentally Preferable Products and Clean Technologies (called “Class B” lists) on air quality for a number of developed and developing during the period 1996-2012 and 2005-2012 (through environmental...

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Designing Carbon Taxation Schemes for Automobiles : A Simulation Exercise for Germany

Adamou, Adamos; Clerides, Sofronis; Zachariadis, Theodoros - 2012

Vehicle taxation based on CO2 emissions is increasingly being adopted worldwide in order to shift consumer purchases to low-carbon cars, yet little is known about the effectiveness and overall economic impact of these schemes. We focus on feebate schemes, which impose a fee on high-carbon...

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Decision Making Analysis to Assess the Silent Aircraft Project

Morimoto, Risako; Hope, Christopher - 2005

There is increasing concern about aircraft noise as a result of the rising demand for air transport. According to the US National Science and Technology Council, the environmental impacts of aircraft, including serious noise problems, are likely to limit air transportation growth in the 21st...

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Delineating Spring Recharge Areas in a Fractured Sandstone Aquifer (Luxembourg) Based on Pesticide Mass Balance

Farlin, Julien; Drouet, Laurent; Gallé, Tom; Pittois, Denis - 2014

arable land in proportion to the pesticide mass discharged annually in a spring at minimum total transport cost. The approach … was applied to the Luxembourg Sandstone, a fractured-rock aquifer supplying half of the drinking water for Luxembourg …, using the herbicide atrazine. Predictions of the recharge areas were most robust in situations of strong competition by …

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The Effects of Bacillus Thuringiensis and Lysinibacillus Sphaericus on Low-Density Polyethylene

Ray, Rishi - 2020

The purpose of this research is to determine and compare the rates that Bacillus thuringiensis, Lysinibacillus sphaericus, and a composite of the two degrade low-density polyethylene (LDPE), the global leading plastic pollutant. The research involved measuring the mass of LDPE degraded by B....

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