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Economic Valuation of Natural Resource Damages : An Application to Groundwater Mining in NCT-Delhi

Nallathiga, Ramakrishna; Ram Babu, P.; Sribalakameswari, K. - 2014

Natural resources like air, water (including ground water), land and vegetation are valuable resources that are often not valued in market. Economic valuation aids exploration of the value of services provided by these resources, or to estimate damages made to them. A study was carried out in...

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A Comment on 'Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings'

Atlas, Mark K. - 2017

This paper offers comments on a paper recently posted on the Social Science Research Network, “Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings.” Basically, the paper purported to measure the impacts on property values and...

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Property Rights and Environmental Quality : A Cross-Country Study

Kerekes, Carrie - 2013

Public policy often regards pollution and other measures of poor environmental quality as public bads that result from … this article, I argue that pollution and environmental quality should instead be regarded from a property rights … of pollution and an overall improvement in environmental quality. Using cross-country data, I examine the relationship …

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Exploration of ‘Hot-Spots’ of Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emission from the Agriculture Fields of Assam, India

Mishra, Satyendra Nath - 2012

Background: Agricultural soils contribute towards the emission of CH4 (mainly from paddy fields) and N2O (from N-fertilizer application), the two important greenhouse gases causing global warming. Most studies had developed the inventories of CH4 and N2O emission at the country level (larger...

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The Political Economy of International Emissions Trading Scheme Choice : Empirical Evidence

Boom, Jan-Tjeerd; Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - 2001

The Kyoto Protocol allows international emissions trading, which could take place in three different forms: government, permit, or credit trading. Which trading system is chosen is likely to depend on the preferences of several interest groups. In this paper, we give empirical evidence on the...

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Scientific Progress and Irreversibility : An Economic Interpretation of the 'Precautionary Principle'

Gollier, Christian; Jullien, Bruno; Treich, Nicolas - 2008

We consider the problem of the optimal use of a good whose consumption can produce damages in the future. Scientific progress is made over time that provides information on the distribution of the intensity of damages. We show that this progress induces earlier prevention effort only if prudence...

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Industrial Characteristics, Environmental Regulations and Air Pollution : An Analysis of the UK Manufacturing Sector

Cole, Matthew A.; Elliott, Robert J.R; Shimamoto, Kenichi - 2013

pollution. Couched in terms of the demand for, and the supply of, environmental services we utilize a new dataset of UK industry … different determinants of emissions intensity. We find pollution intensity to be a positive function of energy use and physical … and human capital intensity. Conversely, we find pollution intensity to be a negative function of the size of the average …

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An Analysis of Long-Run Environmental Impacts and Multi-Criteria-Based Prioritisation of the Natural Dyes in the Indian Textile Industry

Narayanan Gopalakrishnan, Badri - 2013

Natural dyes, a class of colorants extracted from vegetative matter and animal residues, are claimed to be eco-friendly, causing lower level of emissions than the synthetic dyes in the textile industry. However, no comparative analysis of overall emissions scenarios with different degrees of...

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The Existence and Uniqueness of Optimal Pollution Policy in the Presence of Victim Defense Measures.

McKitrick, R.; Collinge, R.A. - 1998

It is to be expected that rational peole defend themselves against pollution externalities, at the very least through …

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The Existence and Uniqueness of Optimal Pollution Policy in the Presence of Victim Defense Measures.

McKitrick, R.; Collinge, R.A. - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 1998

It is to be expected that rational peole defend themselves against pollution externalities, at the very least through …

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