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Dutch settlements on the coastal plain locked Guyana into polder agriculture and inadvertently a small widely dispersed population. The former requires high cost for drainage, irrigation and agricultural production. The latter implies the high costs – including the cost of infrastructure –...
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. Becker's article entitled “Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach”, to explain why under current conditions more waste … discarded in the environment can be expected. The article was created from the perspective of the Czech Republic, where the … the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic so as to learn what measures were planned to be taken in order to …
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We study the implications of the Chinese waste import ban of 2018 on intraEuropean plastic waste trade. Specifically …, we ask if it led to a "waste haven" effect, which would imply that countries with high disposal and recycling costs … started to export more plastic waste to countries with lower costs. We study this question in a gravity difference …
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This paper summarizes the economics perspective on recycling of municipal solid waste. The first section reviews recent … greatly from policies enacted for yard waste, because these two materials are very different from each other. A surgical …
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, disposal of waste water, disposal of solid waste and hand washing habits. Results reveal that existing state of these … indicators offer a sort of environment that is prone to a number of serious health risks. For planners and policy makers, the …
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renewable sources. In the final quarter of 2017, energy generation from water, groundwater, wind, and solar and biological waste …
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