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vulnerability of children to environmental pollution. Indeed, most of environmental policies currently in place are based upon …
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Total factor productivity growth (TFPG) has been traditionally associated with technological change. We show that when a factor of production, such as energy, generates an environmental externality in the form of CO2 emissions which is not internalized because of lack of environmental policy,...
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The global dimension of environmental policy, which has become a subject of international policy with the concrete discussion of targets and instruments, constitutes a huge information gap for environmental policy. The authors postulate, that this can only be filled by the application of global...
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of pollution and two different kinds of irreversibilities interact. The first kind of irreversibility concerns the sunk … irreversibilities pull in opposite directions: policy irreversibility leads to more pollution and a less/later policy while … environmental irreversibility generates less pollution and a more/sooner policy. Using a real option approach and an infinite time …
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This paper examines the willingness of farmers to participate in hypothetical programs that would pay them to adopt cropping practices that enhance provision of ecosystem services from agriculture. A survey of 3,000 Michigan corn and soybean farmers elicited willingness to adopt four sets of...
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deal with non-point source pollution : collective fining, random fining, and a tax-subsidy scheme. Our results show that …
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In general, the use of incentive payments to landholders in environmental programs is poorly thought through. This article discusses situations where environmental incentive payments are more likely to be a cost-effective response by environmental funders. It is proposed that incentives can be...
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would be federal district-level taxation which accounts both for cross-boundary pollution and differences in industry … the location of polluting industries and the associated pollution damages, the majority party may therefore impose sub …-optimally high or low pollution taxes due to a majority bias. We show that majority bias can influence the social-welfare ranking of …
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pollution and economic activity in Mexico, compares those results to the United States, and draws out implications for the FTAA … determines pollution levels can benefit from their ability to take advantage of newer technologies after liberalizing trade, as … is the case with the Mexican steel industry. However, if pollution is a function of end of pipe technology, as in the …
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The present study extends earlier research by presenting the results of a new and updated version of the RICE model (Regional Integrated model of Climate and the Economy), labeled the RICE-2009 model. The model is a regionalized, dynamic model that incorporates an end-to-end treatment of...
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