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Income inequality and the environmental Kuznets curve

Borghesi, Simone - 2000

This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality affects carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their relationship with...

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Towards a typology of "environmentally-adjusted" national sustainability indicators: Key concepts and policy application

O'Connor, Martin - 2000

economy and the national territory to the rest of the world, as well as to the contribution of social and community capital to …

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Globalisation and maritime transportation: Competition, uncertainty and implications for port development strategy

Slack, Brian - 2001

The maritime industry is in a period of unprecedented change. Around the world, and in every sector radically new …

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Public participation in Local Agenda 21: A review of traditional and innovative tools

Sors, Julie Catherine - 2001

There is a wealth of existing literature on specific methods to encourage public participation in Local Agenda 21. This paper provides a concise overview and comparative assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches. For the sake of clarity, these methods are categorised into...

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Sources of performance improvement in privatised firms: A clinical study of the global telecommunications industry

Megginson, William L.; Bortolotti, Bernardo; D'Souza, Juliet - 2001

investment spending increase significantly after privatisation, while employment and leverage decline significantly. However … incumbent's investment and an increase in employment. Retained government ownership is associated with a significant increase in … efficiency gains result from better incentives and productivity, rather than from wholesale firing of employees and profitability …

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Meeting the Kyoto targets: The importance of developing country participation

Zhang, Zhong Xiang - 2001

This paper investigates the implications of progressively broadening the scope of the market of tradable permits from no emissions trading to full global trading. We start with the no emissions trading case where each Annex I country must individually meet its Kyoto targets. Next, we consider a...

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What really happened in The Hague?

Buchner, Barbara - 2001

This paper investigates the occurrences at the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which took place in The Hague, The Netherlands, from the 13th to 25th November of 2000. Since the conference did not reach an agreement there...

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Can equity enhance efficiency? Lessons from the Kyoto Protocol

Carraro, Carlo; Bosello, Francesco; Buchner, Barbara; … - 2001

This paper analyses the relationship between different equity rules and the incentives to sign and ratify a climate agreement. A widespread conjecture suggests that a more equitable ex-ante distribution of the burden of reducing emissions would provide the right incentives for more countries -...

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The Kyoto Protocol: A flawed concept

Cooper, Richard N. - 2001

The framework of the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement for the world's rich countries to reduce their greenhouse gas …

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Endogenous induced technical change and the costs of Kyoto

Buonanno, Paolo; Carraro, Carlo; Galeotti, Marzio - 2001

pollution abatement and capital investment. Two versions of this climate model are studied, one with endogenous technical change …

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