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The method that Canada and other developed countries use to measure productivity growth generally ignores the … of production processes, are excluded from the productivity accounting framework. This study proposes an extended … productivity measure that takes pollutants into account. It illustrates how it can be applied using carbon dioxide emissions. The …
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This paper investigates how environmental taxes affect manufacturing productivity by examining British Columbia …’s revenue-neutral carbon tax. I develop a new hypothesis, the ‘‘Productivity Dividend Hypothesis,” to show that environmental … taxes can positively affect productivity by recycling tax revenues to reduce corporate income taxes. This revenue …
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This study evaluates the implications of an actual carbon tax on international trade in the agricultural sector. Applying uniformly to all fossil fuels combusted within its borders, the province of British Columbia unilaterally introduced a carbon tax on July 1, 2008. In 2012, the province...
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Economics has evolved over time, and it helps to explain and shape the actors’ economic activities. Although economics is useful to humans’ lives, it is either failed or insufficient to justify many real-world cases, ranging from humans’ rapid and/or unpredictable progress in the...
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The use of integrated sustainability plans is an emerging trend in higher education institutions (HEIs) to set sustainability priorities and to create a work plan for action. This paper analyses the sustainability plans of 21 Canadian HEIs that have used the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment...
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the literature pertaining to carbon cycling, climate regulation, and disturbances from logging, fire, and insect outbreaks …, climate regulation, and disturbances in Canadian managed forests. <b> </b> <b> </b> …
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Researchers have positioned renewable energy as sustainable and able to mitigate environmental issues associated with fossil fuels. Further, sustainable initiatives have been offered as a point of differentiation for brands. In order to reap the benefits of such differentiation, managers must...
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This research provides analysis of the case of the Jackson Farm development application, embedded within the particular dynamics of the municipal, regional, and provincial sustainability land use policy culture of the Metro Vancouver region, in Canada. Within a culture of appreciation of the...
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The 1990 Canadian long-range transport of air pollutants and acid deposition report divided North America into 40 sources of emission and 15 sensitive receptor sites. For the purpose of national policy making and international negotiation, the use of these large sources and few receptors may...
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There is a disagreement on the concept, definition and application of the paradigm of sustainable development. The definition that has been accepted by many involves several components, and it is difficult to measure or quantify indicators. Depending on the structure of the economy, it is...
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