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International climate policy to combat global warming : an analysis of the ancillary benefits of reducing carbon emissions

Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2002

In their pursuit of policies to combat global warming, countries will find that they may also receive additional benefits which are not directly associated with the primary aim. These ancillary benefits are likely to include, for example, a reduction in pollution as a result of carbon...

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Greening the budget : budgetary policies for environmental improvement

Clinch, J. Peter (contributor) - 2002

Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the...

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Productivity, innovation, and knowledge in services : new economic and socio-economic approaches

Gallouj, Faïz (contributor); Gadrey, Jean (contributor) - 2002

Written by some of the most distinguished authors in the field, this book elucidates the critical and complex relationships between services, production and innovation. The authors discuss the limitations of current theories to explain service productivity and innovation, and call for a...

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The costs of economic growth

Victor, Peter A. - 2013

Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 16 (2), April, 137-42 -- Arthur P.J. Mol (2011), 'China's Ascent and … Environment: Whose Growth? Whose Environment?', World Development, 20 (4), 481-96 -- Paul Ekins (1993), '"Limits to Growth" and …-31 -- Peter Bartelmus (2009), 'The Cost of Natural Capital Consumption: Accounting for a Sustainable World Economy', Ecological …

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Fast growing firms in a slow growth economy : institutional conditions for innovation

Visintin, Francesca (contributor); … - 2016

Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: innovation beyond national systems fragility: institutional bricolage for SMEs growth / D. Lauto G. Pittino and F. Visintin -- Part I the context -- 2. Entrepreneurship and technological clusters. the influence of contextual factors on the birth...

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Beyond uneconomic growth : economics, equity and the ecological predicament

Farley, Joshua C. (contributor); Malghan, Deepak (contributor) - 2016

/ Joshua Farley -- 2. The world in over-shoot: a celebration of Herman Daly's contributions to ecological economics - the … 'full' world / Philip Lawn -- 9. Hicksian income, welfare, and the steady state / Salah El Serafy -- Part IV Changing the … beyond economic growth as the sole panacea for the world's ecological predicament. Grounded in physics, ecology, and the …

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Environmental taxation in China and Asia-Pacific : achieving environmental sustainability through fiscal policy

Kreiser, Lawrence A. (contributor) - 2011

Environmental Taxation in China and Asia-Pacific contains an integrated set of detailed chapters providing insights and analysis on how fiscal policy can be used to achieve environmental sustainability. Highly topical chapters include energy tax policy in China, environmental fiscal reform,...

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Market-based instruments for environmental management : politics and institutions

Andersen, Mikael Skou (ed.); Sprenger, Rolf-Ulrich (ed.) - 2000

Market-based instruments are becoming the environmental management tool of choice and have provided a new perspective on the conventional wisdom about policy instruments. This book analyses the complexities of designing and implementing market-based instruments using case study experiences from...

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Economic growth and environmental policy : a theoretical approach

Hettich, Frank - 2000

The use of dynamic models to address the problem of environmental degradation is central to environmental policy because decisions taken now affect not only the current generation but have a profound impact on the future. In this innovative book, Frank Hettich uses dynamic modelling to study the...

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Environmental policy making in economies with prior tax distortions

Goulder, Lawrence H. (ed.) - 2002

In evaluating environmental policy, researchers have tended to focus on the industry or market that is targeted by regulation and to disregard policy impacts in other parts of the economy. Recent research indicates, however, that in economies where governments rely on distortionary taxes,...

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