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11.479 Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Planning in Developing Countries, Spring 2004

Davis, Jennifer - 2004

Policy and planning for the provision of water supply and sanitation services in developing countries. Reviews available technologies, but emphasizes the planning and policy process, including economic, social, environmental, and health issues. Incorporates considerations of financing, pricing,...

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Estimation of expected value for lognormal and gamma distributions. [Environmental pollutants]

White, G.C. - 2009

Concentrations of environmental pollutants tend to follow positively skewed frequency distributions. Two such density functions are the gamma and lognormal. Minimum variance unbiased estimators of the expected value for both densities are available. The small sample statistical properties of...

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The Environment and the SUV: Any Room for Compromise?

Schnitzer, Eliza Newbold - 2002

In addition to the serious health effects caused by oil production, distribution and consumption, there are environmental as well as political effects. Equally important is the issue of our nations security. America imports 53% of the oil it consumes daily, leaving us extremely reliant on...

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Intraindustry Trade and the Environment: Is There a Selection Effect?

Aralas, Sarma B.; Hoehn, John P. - 2010

This paper develops a pollution model of trade in differentiated goods. Our analyses show the following: first, the … number of firms in the economy. Third, we examine the relationship between openness to trade and the environment. The impact … empirical analysis to test the integrated theoretical predictions of the pollution models of intra-industry as wells as inter …

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I think that I shall never see {hor_ellipsis} a lovely forestry policy: Land use programs for conservation of forests

Rayner, S.F.; Richards, K.R. - 2008

Forestry programs are frequently invoked as having potential for mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Most studies have attempted to quantify the potential impact of forest programs on carbon uptake and the potential costs of such programs. In this paper, we will attempt instead to focus on...

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Campus Consignment

DeAngelo, Krista - 2009

As environmental awareness and sustainability have become more widely promoted, it has resulted in an increase in the importance of recycling. A consignment store, by definition, is a second-hand store that offers previously owned goods, both used and unused, for a lower price than that of new...

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Incorporating uncertainty into electric utility projections and decisions

Hanson, D.A. - 2008

This paper focuses on how electric utility companies can respond in their decision making to uncertain variables. Here we take a mean- variance type of approach. The mean'' value is an expected cost, on a discounted value basis. We assume that management has risk preferences incorporating a...

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Zur dynamischen Anreizwirkung umweltpolitischer Instrumente

Unold, Wolfram - 2000

Im Mittelpunkt der vorgestellten Arbeit steht die dynamische Anreizwirkung umweltpolitischer Instrumente. Die voliegende Arbeit erstellt einen differenzierten Vergleich umweltpolitischer Instrumente. Hierzu wird die Anreizwirkung von Steuern, Subventionen, Zertifikaten und einheitlichen...

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E-waste management in developing countries through legislation and regulations: a case study of China

Ye, Jing - 2008

hazardous effects on the environment and theworkers'/residents' health. Additionally, industrialized countries are … chain, as well as direct and non-participant observationswere carried out in six cities of China. For another perspective …

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A Dynamic Approach to the FDI-Environment Nexus: The Case of China and India

Baek, Jungho; Koo, Won W. - 2008

-run relationships among foreign direct investment (FDI), economic growth, and the environment in China and India. The results show that … effect on environmental quality in both the short- and long-run, supporting pollution haven hypothesis. Finally, it is found … that, in the short-run, there exists a unidirectional causality from FDI inflow to economic growth and the environment in …

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