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Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Canada

Vourc'h, Ann - 2001

This paper analyses aspects of natural resource policy and environmental policy in Canada. In the taxation of resource-based activities, the management of water supply and the Atlantic fisheries management, the paper finds that there are incentives that may lead to overexploitation,...

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Aging, private health expenditures and environment quality

Safi, Fatma - 2016

This paper presents a simple two-period overlapping generation's model with uncertain lifetimes that contains environmental and health issues. It investigates an intergenerational conflict between old and young generations as regards two defensive expenditures, offsetting the influence of a...

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Explaining environmental Kuznets curves : how pollution induces policy and new technologies

Smulders, Sjak (contributor); Bretschger, Lucas (contributor) - 2000

Production often causes pollution as a by-product. Once pollution problems become too severe, regulation is introduced … claim that the rise and decline of pollution can be explained by policy-induced technology shifts …

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Environmental Performance, Environmental Risk and Risk Management

Dobler, Michael; Lajili, Kaouthar; Zeghal, Daniel - 2014

Environmental performance, environmental risk and its management are of contemporary interest, but to date there is limited evidence on their relationships. This paper is the first to provide detailed insights by adopting a content analysis approach and disaggregating firm-level environmental...

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Introduction and Overview of the Economics of International Trade and the Environment

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - 2001

We describe the theoretical and empirical contributions that rigorous economic analysis can make in improving our comprehension of the important issues pertaining to environmental protection in the presence of international trade. We do this by studying and summarizing the scholarly...

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Introduction and Overview of the Economics of International Trade and the Environment

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - 2000

We describe the theoretical and empirical contributions that rigorous economic analysis can make in improving our understanding of the salient issues relating to environmental protection in the presence of international trade. We do this by analyzing and summarizing the intellectual...

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Optimal dynamic scale and structure of a multi-pollution economy

Baumgärtner, Stefan; Jöst, Frank; Winkler, Ralph - 2003

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The pollution haven hypothesis : a geographic economy model in a comparative study

Zugravu, Natalia; Kheder, Sonia Ben - 2008

Although based on theoretical foundations, the pollution haven hypothesis has never been clearly proven empirically. In … part of the Commonwealth of Independent States countries. Finally, we show that the pollution haven hypothesis is confirmed … in the strongest manner for emerging economies. -- FDI ;Environmental Regulation ; Economic Geography ; Pollution Haven …

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Regime shifts and uncertainty in pollution control

Zeeuw, Aart de; Zemel, Amos - 2012

We develop a simple model of managing a system subject to pollution damage under risk of an abrupt and random jump in …. -- environmental pollution ; optimal management ; catastrophic transitions ; uncertainty ; adaptation ; mitigation …

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Determining the environmental effects of indirect subsidies

Beers, Cees van; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Moor, … - 2004

Up to now a clear theoretical and methodological framework for economic-environmental analysis of environmentally damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at achieving a certain (often non-environmental) goal that...

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