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Robust interpolation of agricultural census data to hydrological units and implications for diffuse pollution modelling

Posen, Paulette E.; Hutchins, Michael G.; Lovett, Andrew A. - 2009

excess of the upper limits prescribed by the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in some river catchments and reductions in …, Resources, Economics and Management (ChREAM) study is to assess likely impacts of WFD implementation on agricultural land use … diffuse pollution model to reflect present-day land use profiles. Combining agricultural land use data with hydrological …

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Sustainable greenhouse policies: The role of non-CO 2 gases

Michaelis, Peter - 1997

This paper investigates the economic implications of a comprehensive approach to sustainable greenhouse policies that strives to stabilise the atmospheric concentration of the five major greenhouse gases at an ecologically determined threshold level. In a theoretical optimisation model...

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Environmental policy in an integrated world economy

Schulze, Günther G.; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 1998

This paper critically assesses the literature on the relationship between economic integration and the environment. In particular, we investigate how trade liberalisation and capital market integration affect environmental policy and thus environmental quality. Conversely, we also study how...

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Policy Instruments and Incentives for Environmental R&D:A Market-Driven Approach

Albrecht, Johan - 1999

Environmental policy instruments have an impact on the incentives to invest in environmental R&D and this link should deserve careful consideration when introducing new instruments. Some authors argue that environmental taxes and tradable permits have rather comparable impacts on environmental...

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The Influence of Environmental Policy on Innovative Behaviour: An Econometric Study

Hemmelskamp, Jens - 1999

The paper examines the determinants that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in a multivariate context by using data from the Mannheimer Innovations Panel 1993, which was part of the Community Innovation Survey. The objective is to analyse the general...

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Voluntary environmental agreements, emission taxes and international trade: The importance of the timing of strategies

Conrad, Klaus - 1999

The purpose of the paper is to narrow the gap between the widespread use of voluntary agreements and research on the rationale of such approaches. A typical example are voluntary agreements of many industries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions because of global warming. If the industry...

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Irreversibilities and the timing of environmental policy

Pindyck, Robert S. - 2000

The standard framework in which economists evaluate environmental policies is cost-benefit analysis, so policy debates usually focus on the expected flows of costs and benefits, or on the choice of discount rate. But this can be misleading when there is uncertainty over future outcomes, when...

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The response of companies to information-based environmental policies

Siniscalco, Domenico; Borghini, Stefania; Fantini, Marcella - 2000

This paper investigates the companies' behavioural response to information-based environmental policies. We perform a panel analysis for 39 big companies in 16 countries, in 3 polluting industries (oil & gas, chemicals, power generation) over a 5- year period (1993-1997) to check whether...

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Behavioral and distributional effects of environmental policy: Introduction

Carraro, Carlo; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2000

This paper introduces to the main policy research issues that the interrelationship between environmental and economic problems has recently emphasised. Economists have traditionally encouraged the use of incentive-based instruments in place of command and control regulation. The starting point...

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Negotiation between authority and polluters: Model for support of decision-making in environmental policy. Principles and experimental case test

Sauer, Petr; Dvorák, Antonín; Fiala, Petr - 2000

The paper describes a relatively new approach to pollution reduction problem solving that relies on negotiation between polluters and authorities in which traditional economic tools of environmental policies are used and where there is the economic information asymmetry between the polluters and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608597

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