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Economic Analysis of Selected Environmental Issues in China

Zhou, Yuan - 2005

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 …This thesis investigates several selected environmental issues in China from an economic perspective. It consists of …

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An analysis of SO sub 2 emission compliance under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments

Hanson, D.A.; Cilek, C.M.; Pandola, G.; Taxon, T. - 2008

The effectiveness of SO{sub 2} emission allowance trading under Title 4 of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act (CAA) is of great interest due to the innovative nature of this market incentive approach. However, it may be a mistake to frame the compliance problem for a utility as a decision...

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The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Great Lakes economy: Challenges and opportunities

Hanson, D.; Molburg, J.; Pandola, G.; Taxon, T.; Lurie, G. - 2008

This paper deals with the market for SO{sub 2} emission allowances over time and electric utility compliance choices. For currently high emitting plants ( 2.5 lb SO{sub 2}/MMBtu), the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) provide for about twice as many SO{sub 2} allowances to be issued per year...

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Information and issues related to the quantification of environmental externalities for new powerplants

Lee, A.D.; Callaway, J.M.; Glantz, C.S.; Baechler, M.C.; … - 2008

This report provides background information for the Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) in its efforts to quantify the environmental externalities associated with new electricity resources. A more detailed companion document has been provided to Bonneville for internal use. This report...

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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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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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An interregional hedonic analysis of noxious facility impacts on local wages and property values

Clark, D.E.; Nieves, L.A. - 2008

Claims of property value loss are commonly raised by homeowners when noxious facilities are sited or when new information about the hazards of existing facilities is made public. While the capitalization of externalities into land values is consistent with economic theory, empirical measurement...

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Are there income effects on global willingness to pay for biodiversity conservation?

Jacobsen, Jette; Hanley, Nick - 2008

This paper is concerned with the empirical relationship between biodiversity conservation valuesand income. We use random effects panel models to examine the effects of income, and then GDPper capita, on willingness to pay for habitat and biodiversity conservation. In a meta-analysis,...

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A Spatiotemporal Fixed Effects Estimation of U.S. State-Level Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Burnett, J. Wesley; Bergstrom, John C. - 2011

within the data have largely been ignored. By ignoring the spatial aspect of pollution emissions past estimates of the EKC … transboundary pollution emissions between neighbors). By ignoring the spatial aspects within the data several past estimates of the … panel model using a newly proposed robust, spatial fixed effects model. This new estimation scheme is appropriate for panels …

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Implications of Non-stationarity

Perman, Roger; Stern, David I - 1999

In this paper, we apply time series techniques for panel data to the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) model. Within the literature that estimates emissions-income relations in the EKC context, little attention has been paid to the time series properties of the data and in particular to whether...

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