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In this paper we estimate the relationship between urban sprawl and a measure of air quality, namely the number of days in which the PM10 concentration exceeds safeguard limits in European Union cities. Building on a multidimensional representation of sprawl, the paper employs several indicators...
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effect of female population, urbanization and trade openness on carbon dioxide emission in Ghana is assessed. The study used … periods, urbanization was noted to exert positive influence on carbon dioxide emission while trade openness and female … population exert a negative effect on carbon dioxide emission. Thus, growth in urbanization increases carbon dioxide emission …
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In this paper we estimate the relationship between urban sprawl and a measure of air quality, namely the number of days in which the PM10 concentration exceeds safeguard limits in European Union cities. Building on a multidimensional representation of sprawl, the paper employs several indicators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237397
Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor … findings highlight that alleviating commuting costs does not uniformly boost women's labor participation, as gender roles and …
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We investigate how air pollution impacts outdoor activity avoidance, leveraging changes in local wind direction in an instrumental variable setup for causal identification. Our findings reveal a substantial reduction in time spent outdoors during polluted days, mainly driven by decreased...
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pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face. …
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in many developing countries. In our study in central India, we randomly assign villages to a campaign by rural public …
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This paper examines the relative merits of compact cities or urban sprawl (suburban settlement patterns) as a spatial solution to environmental problems (such as climate control), automobile dependence, economic development, infrastructure costs and the quality of urban life.
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Deficiency of urban infrastructure facilities is one of the main problems behind the lower rate of urbanization in … India. It has also unfavorably affected the realization of the full potential of the urban sector's contribution to national … gross domestic product in India. From this perspective, by considering the population in Class I cities (cities with more …
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