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From rural transformation to global integration : comparative analyses of the environmental dimensions of China’s rise

Muldavin, Joshua S. S. - In: Eurasian geography and economics 54 (2013) 3, pp. 259-279

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Total Factor Productivity Growth and the Environment: A Case for Green Growth Accounting

Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Tzouvelekas, E.; Vouvaki, D. - 2007

We examine whether the use of the environment, proxied by CO2 emissions, as a factor of production contributes, in … with environment as a factor of production which is unpaid in the absence of environmental policy is developed. Using data … environment as a not fully compensated factor of production. Our results point towards the need for developing a concept of Green …

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Trade, Technique and Composition Effects: What is Behind the Fall in World-Wide SO2 Emissions 1990-2000?

Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole A.; de Melo, Jaime - 2007

Combining unique data bases on emissions with sectoral output and employment data, we study the sources of the fall in world-wide SO2 emissions and estimate the impact of trade on emissions. Contrarily to concerns raised by environmentalists, an emission-decomposition exercise shows that scale...

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International trade and pollution in shared resources: A study of international rivers

Sigman, Hilary - 2002

This paper examines whether trade relationships facilitate resolution of international environmental spillovers. Trade might promote cooperation by providing opportunities for implicit side payments, allowing linkage between nvironmental and trade concessions, providing direct leverage over...

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International spillovers and water quality in rivers: Do countries free ride?

Sigman, Hilary - 2001

Transboundary spillovers may degrade environmental quality if countries free ride. This paper examines the extent of such degradation in water quality in international rivers. Using data from river monitoring stations in the UN's Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS), it compares...

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Burden of Proof in Environmental Disputes in the WTO: Legal Aspects

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2009

This paper discusses allocation of burden of proof in environmental disputes in the WTO system. Besides laying down the natural principles that (i) the complainant carries the burden to (ii) make a prima facie case that its claim holds, WTO adjudicating bodies have said little of more general...

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The WTO and environmental provisions: three categories of trade and environment linkage

Khalilian, Setareh - 2009

The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for …

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The Pollution Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions: Asymmetry, Disaggregation, and Multilateralism

Swart, Julia; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2011

the degradation of the environment. We test three hypotheses and find: (i) Asymmetry: the development level of the target …

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Climate change: An inconvenient maybe

Edwards, Gonzalo - In: Estudios de Economía 35 (2008) 1, pp. 5-17

The subject of Climate Change is here to stay for at least the rest of the 21st century. The extent to which climate change can be expected; the importance in its determination of anthropogenic factors, relative to natural causes; its impact on world agriculture, migration patterns and economic...

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Welt und Umwelt

Steck, Odil Hannes - 1978 - 1. Aufl.

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