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A Framework for Estimating Willingness-to-Pay to Avoid Endogenous Environmental Risks

Konishi, Yoshifumi - 2013

This paper proposes a general empirical strategy to estimate willingness-to-pay (WTP) for exogenous risk mitigation when environmental risks are endogenous in protective actions and consumers are imperfectly informed about the ambient risk levels. The strategy consists of a set of survey...

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Composite Valuation of Immaterial Damage in Flooding : Value of Statistical Life, Value of Statistical Evacuation and Value of Statistical Injury

Bockarjova, Marija - 2012

This paper enriches existing valuation literature in a number of ways by presenting context-specific estimates of immaterial damage. First, it offers an estimation of value of statistical life (VOSL) in the context of a natural hazard (flooding). Next, as one of the contributions, alongside with...

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Climate Change and the Willingness to Pay to Reduce Ecological and Health Risks from Wastewater Flooding in Urban Centers and the Environment

Veronesi, Marcella; Chawla, Fabienne; Maurer, Max; … - 2013

Climate change scenarios predict an increase of extreme rain events, which will increase the risk of wastewater flooding and of missing legal water quality targets. This study elicits the willingness to pay to reduce ecological and health risks from combined sewer overflows (CSOs) in rivers and...

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Rational and moral antecedents of tourists' intention to use reusable alternatives to single-use plastics

Adam, Issahaku - In: Journal of travel research : a quarterly publication of … 62 (2023) 5, pp. 549-968

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Environmental effects of a vehicle tax reform: Empirical evidence from Norway

Ciccone, Alice - 2015

In 2007, the Norwegian government reformed the vehicle registration tax in order to reduce the carbon intensity of the new car fleet by incentivizing the purchase of more fuel efficient cars. This paper identifies the impact of the new tax structure on three main dimensions: (i) the average CO2...

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Impactos ambientais e econômicos dos veículos elétricos e híbridos plug-in: Uma revisão da literatura

Vonbun, Christian - 2015

This paper presents a brief literature review concerning the costs and benefits of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, highlighting their advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Even though electric and electro-hybrid vehicles must still overcome many cultural and...

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The social cost of atmospheric release

Shindell, Drew T. - 2013

The author presents a multi-impact economic valuation framework called the Social Cost of Atmospheric Release (SCAR) that extends the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) used previously for carbon dioxide (CO2) to a broader range of pollutants and impacts. Values consistently incorporate health and...

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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013

ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for harvesting, and that the instantaneous heat …

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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution: Implications of climate change

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2014

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Is it all about CO2 emissions? The environmental effects of a tax reform for new vehicles in Norway

Ciccone, Alice - 2014

In 2007, the Norwegian government reformed the vehicle registration tax in order to reduce the CO2 emissions intensity of the new car fleet by incentivizing the purchase of more fuel efficient cars. This paper identifies the impact of the new tax structure on four dimensions: 1) the average CO2...

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