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O comércio de madeiras e as restrições impostas pelos mercados Europeus e Norte-Americanos : qual a sua efetividade?
Martins, Michele Márcia Viana; Nonnenberg, Marcelo … - 2022
Deforestation is considered a highly undesirable practice due to the destruction of local biomes and its effects on … trade in wood and derivatives. Brazil, with the second largest area of forest in the world, also has an arsenal of measures … aimed at combating illegal deforestation and the export of these products. However, considering the period 2010 to 2020, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013041061
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Sustainable Standard-Setting, Climate Change and the TBT Agreement
Delimatsis, Panos - 2016
The increased importance of environmental protection led to the introduction of sustainability-related criteria in standard-setting practices. A discomfort with the functioning, working methods and certain rigidities of the global standardizing bodies such as the ISO led to a mushrooming of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000302
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The evolution of forest coverage : wood trade and its impact on forest functions
Lup, Aurel; Ursu, Ana - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 22-31). 2020
The material presents the problem of forests, deforestation becoming nowadays a real global problem of mankind. Many … profit, wood being one of the most precious commodities. It is true that in some parts of the world the forest is also … only for money, wood being over 10 times more expensive than any other agricultural product. The consequences of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517401
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The evolution of forest coverage: Wood trade and its impact on forest functions
Lup, Aurel; Ursu, Ana - 2020
The material presents the problem of forests, deforestation becoming nowadays a real global problem of mankind. Many … profit, wood being one of the most precious commodities. It is true that in some parts of the world the forest is also … only for money, wood being over 10 times more expensive than any other agricultural product. The consequences of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519728
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Uncertainties about the GHG emissions saving of rapeseed biodiesel
Pehnelt, Gernot; Vietze, Christoph - 2012
During the last years, the renewable energy strategy of the European Union (EU) and the proposed policies and regulations, namely the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), have been heavily discussed among scientific circles and various interest groups. The sustainability of different biofuels and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291798
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Does going green pay off? The effect of an international environmental agreement on tropical timber trade
Borsky, Stefan; Leiter, Andrea; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2011
Trade-related measures aim to regulate side-effects in international environmental agreements and are expected to positively influence the level of participation in the agreements as well as their degree of stability. In this paper we examine one side-effect of the 1994 International Tropical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294795
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What is wrong with virtual water trading?
Gawel, Erik; Bernsen, Kristina - 2011
So-called virtual water, the water embedded in internationally traded goods, has come under discussion. The amount of quantitative studies which attempt to estimate volumes and flows of virtual water in relation to agricultural trade is rising rapidly, while the concept has been recognized by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304588
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Setting one voluntary standard in a heterogeneous Europe: EMAS, corruption and stringency of environmental regulations
Borsky, Stefan; Blanco, Esther - 2014
This article addresses the mediating effect of corruption on the influence of stringency of environmental regulation on firms' voluntary environmental performance. Using panel data from adoption of the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) across European Union countries from 1995 to 2011,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382727
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Shark Hunting: International Trade and the Imminent Extinction of Heterogeneous Species
Erhardt, Tobias; Weder, Rolf - 2015
This paper examines the unprecedented decimation of sharks. We develop a Ricardian Gordon-Schaefer model with a continuum of heterogeneous species which are subject to combined harvesting and perfect substitutability in consumption. The model implies that slow-growing species, surviving in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390716
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Exports and Externalities: the other side of trade and ecological risk and Technology Diffusion in a Competitive World
Warziniack, Travis; Finnoff, David; Shogren, Jason F.; … - 2009
This paper develops a general equilibrium model to measure welfare effects of taxes for correcting environmental externalities caused by domestic trade, focusing on exter- nalities that arise through exports. Externalities from exports come from a number of sources. Domestically owned ships,...
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