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Environmental Valuation : The Sum of Specific Damages Approach

Graves, Philip E. - 2014

There is no abstract for this book chapter. It outlines one of the commonly used methods of valuing environmental improvements, discussing the implicit assumptions about perceptions that are embedded in this approach

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The Missing Benefits of Clean Water and the Role of Mismeasured Pollution

Keiser, David - 2018

Although the U.S. spends billions of dollars a year controlling water pollution, there is little empirical evidence of … comparable benefits. This study argues that measurement error in pollution data causes benefits to be underestimated. Using … nutrient pollution. Instrumental variable estimates of the effects of phosphorus on recreational use are an order of magnitude …

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Chapter 7. Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics: Opportunities and challenges

Deschenes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : Volume 4, (pp. 285-332). 2018

This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: (i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...

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The Response of Local Corporate Sustainability to Environmental Disasters : Evidence from Wildfires

Branikas, Ioannis; Buchbinder, Gabriel; Ding, Yugang; … - 2021

Environmental disasters are thought to increase the focus on corporate sustainability in the communities where they occur. Extracting data on wildfires (a frequent type of disaster in the U.S.) and using ESG ratings and EPA air enforcement actions to construct measures of local corporate...

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Dirty Dance : Tourism and Environment

Cevik, Serhan - 2022

Tourism was one of the fastest-growing sectors before the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for about 10 percent of global GDP. But it has also created a number of challenges including environmental degradation, especially in small island countries where the carbon footprint of tourism constitute...

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The Environment of the Białowieza National Park and Sudety Mountains (Presentation Slides)

Lemenkova, Polina - 2019

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The Vulnerability and Environmental Resilience of Ecosystems in Yamal, Russian Arctic

Lemenkova, Polina - 2019

The research paper focuses on the environmental problem of Yamal region, geographically located in the Russian Yamal-Nenets autonomous region, northern-central Russia. This region is characterized by the unique nature and environmental conditions, combining two physical-geographical regions:...

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An Innovative Criterion in Evaluating Bitcoin's Environmental Impact

Mankala, Sachith; Bansal, Utkarsh; Baker, Zachary - 2022

In today's world, cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, have been caught under fire for their immense carbon footprint and environmental destruction. With Bitcoin currently consuming more electricity than countries such as Argentina and Norway, the need for environmental change is necessary....

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Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions : Progress and Challenges

Cropper, Maureen L. - 2011

The value of mortality risk reduction is an important component of the benefits of environmental policies. In recent years, the number, scope, and quality of valuation studies have increased dramatically. Revealed preference studies of wage compensation for occupational risks, on which analysts...

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Cost Effective Non-Point Source Pollution Control : Mandatory BMPs v.s. Ambient Subsidies in the Florida Everglades

Bao, Ken - 2022

On a theoretical front, environmental economists have one last pollution problem to contend with and that is the issue … of non-point source pollution (NPSP). The issue of NPSP is important on many levels but central to this field is how to … observable group pollution; this is known as an ambient mechanism. The Everglades Forever Act (EFA) of 1994 is the only such …

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