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The growing world economy calls for saving natural resources withsustainable development framework. This paper intends …,environmental damage from air pollution has been assessed by scalingaccording to GDP per capita measured in purchase power parity (PPP …)terms. Using this approach, the total damage from air pollution in 2001was assessed about $7billion; equivalent to 8.4% of nominal …
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response do notconfirm the hypothesis that an increase in pollution levelinduces economic expansion. Although Tunisia has …
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Energy forecasts are widely used by the U.S. government, politicians, think tanks,and utility companies. While short-term forecasts were reasonably accurate, medium andlong-range forecasts have almost always been highly erroneous. In the U.S. many energypolicy decisions are driven by Annual...
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/oder Subvention von Kapital und Löhnen nicht wichtig für die Wohlfahrsgewinne einer hinreichend vorangekündigten Steuerreform sind. … short-run confiscation and/or subsidy of capital and labor income is not important for the welfare gains of pre …
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autonomous technological improvement (price-independent trend), the opportunity for energy-price-sensitive improvements, energy … price expectations, and investment behavior. Although this decision-making framework involves more variables than the … detailed engineering analysis. It also permits explicit consideration of a variety of policy approaches other than price …
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to those faced in the recent past. However, the future of energy policy in a climate-restrained world is likely to demand …
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autonomous technological improvement (price-independent trend), the opportunity for energy-price-sensitive improvements, energy … price expectations, and investment behavior. Although this decision-making framework involves more variables than the … detailed engineering analysis. It also permits explicit consideration of a variety of policy approaches other than price …
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Compact fluorescent technologies have been steadily improving. There has been increased interest in utilizing compact fluorescents to provide cost-effective energy savings for electric utilities in the residential sector. Several utilities in the United States have already distributed compact...
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This study had two major objectives: (1) assess and compare changes in natural gas consumption between 1987 and 1993 by income group and (2) assess the potential influence of energy policy on observed changes in natural gas consumption over time and across income groups. This analysis used U.S....
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of air pollution. Chapter 2 analyses the potential application of desalination in China from an economic perspective … health impacts from air pollution in Tianjin. Although China has made dramatic economic progress in recent years, air … pollution continues to be the most visible environmental problem and imposes significant health and economic costs on society …
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