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Environmental consequences of natural resource exploitation often entail threats of future occurrences of detrimental abrupt events rather than (or in addition to) inflicting a damage gradually. The possibility of abrupt occurrence of climate-change related calamities is a case in mind. The...
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In this chapter, Kathleen Day and R. Quentin Grafton explore the relationship between the economy and the environment. One approach sees economic growth leading to environmental degradation by imposing stresses on limited natural resources and ecosystems and by increasing emissions of...
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target. In this paper a conceptual model has been developed to examine the compliance costs under an intra-plant emission … trading system for a non-uniformly mixed assimilative pollutant. The model incorporates the number of emission sources, the … relates emission at each source with the impact on ambient air quality, and the desired ambient air quality target. The model …
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This study is aimed to examine the causal relationship between economic growth, energy consumption and emissions in Bahrain. As required by the Kyoto Protocol where Bahrain has ratified in 2006, it is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study uses Toda and Yamamoto’s (1995) approach...
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consumption and emission from traffic oscillation and (iii) to explore vehicle control strategies of smoothing traffic with … consumption and emission to analytically predict environmental impacts (i.e., unit-distance fuel consumption and emission) from … suppress development of oscillation amplitude and consequently mitigate fuel consumption and emission. …
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Статья посвящена разработке методического подхода к формированию финансовых ковенантов при эмиссии корпоративных облигаций. Определены ключевые финансовые...
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Pollutant exhaust emissions, particularly NOx, produced by diesel engines must be reduced to limit values defined by the environmental regulations as the emissions have many harmful influences on the environment. Recently, the application of the Miller cycle into the internal combustion engines...
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this experimental study, an attempt was made to increase the performance and reduce the exhaust emission by blending … emission characteristics. The performance, combustion and emission characteristics observed while using blended fuels were …-propanol, 8% n-propanol, 4% n-butanol and 8% n-butanol with diesel respectively. The emission test concluded that, the smoke …
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emission, losses and voltage profiles. In this paper, the fuel cost, emission, voltage deviation and active power losses …
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The purpose of this paper is to critically discuss the main advantages of introducing environmental regulation tools such as tradable permits markets. Current climate policies, the negotiations under way at the international level, and past experiences with emissions trading in the USA and...
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