Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the impacts of climate change on the People's Republic of China's (PRC) grain output using rural household survey data. The paper highlights the regional differences of impacts by estimating output elasticities (with respect to climate change) for...

The continuous growth of population results in more consumption of energy. Moreover, land transport consumes about 35% of the total liquid fuel in most countries. The resulting pollutants cause a tremendous death toll. Hence, it is imperative to enhance the fuel efficiency in transport and...

From 1985 until 2009, water distribution service has been delegated to private operators in Paris. Starting from 2001, a progressive process of re-publicisation (in the sense of a reappropriation by the local authority of its role of organising authority) has been developed. It has led to the...

Das externe Umweltschutz-Reporting umfasst die fallweise und/oder regelmäßige Bereitstellung von Informationen über die umweltschutzbezogene Lage eines Unternehmens an externe Stakeholder.1 Als umweltschutzbezogene Lage wird dabei zum einen die ökologische Lage bezeichnet, die durch die von...

In the current document we are referring to the existing data concerning the impact that benzene - which is one of the most important components of different types of fuels - has on Bucharest and on its inhabitants. We are also trying to present possible solutions to this serious problem which...

Since their beginning, human beings had started to harass environment so that they have turned into a real danger for environment during the last century. On the one hand, man extracted out of environment a large amount of hardly regenerating resources implying its gradual impoverishment; on the...