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As the consumption of energy is responsible for approximately, 80% of GHG in EU, the impact of energy activity on the environment has received increasing attention over the last decades from scholars, researchers, politicians and society as a whole. Within EU member countries it is commonly...
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The main aim of this paper is to observe the environmental behaviour in some cities of the word, by analyzing for each city the trends of several energy and emissions indicators that appear as explanatory variables in both energy and labour average productivity equations. At the same time we...
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This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability in the East and South …) in 2010. Both pollution and eco-efficiency measures, two components of environmental sustainability, are considered as … capita appears to have positive impact on the pollution measures, it is found mix (both positive and negative) results on eco …
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Most studies investigating the environmental impact of business activities across countries do so from a macroeconomic vantage point. While this widely accepted methodology has its merits, the purpose of this research is to present an alternative form of analysis focusing on consumption per...
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We employ the “social conditions of innovative enterprise” framework to analyze the key determinants of China’s development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human capabilities and physical infrastructure provided...
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This paper assesses biofuels technology readiness and provides foresight to biofuels development in Southern Africa. Efficient conversion pathways, coupled with biomass from waste or high-yielding energy crops, reduces both the costs of biofuels production and the environmental impacts....
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The world has a unique opportunity to use global markets for the benefit of all nations and all people. The 2002 Report … looks at the workings of these global markets - at how they meet, or fail to meet, the needs of the world's poorest people … Development Security council within the United Nations, and convening a World Summit on Social Development to consider a global …
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Using annual data on individual US airlines over the 1995-2015 period, this paper presents regression results relating an airline's total fuel usage to seven variables: the available ton miles of capacity (passengers plus freight and mail) provided by the airline; the average seat capacity of its...
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