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for one large homogenous population in a constant environment is the logistic growth curve based on the so-called Verhulst … investigating how populations develop and interact over· time. For brevity, we call them ecological population models. Many of them …-Pearl equation. Pierre Francois Verhulst (1838) introduced the logistic equation and Raymond Pearl (1930) applied it to population …
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With global warming, Canadians are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of effective environmental policies. In his paper Anthony Scott, a pioneer in the areas of resource and environmental economics in this country, provides a comprehensive discussion of the role economists can and...
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between inequality and the environment in a growing economy from a … the environment. Public expenditures may either be devoted to supporting growth or abating pollution. The decision over … and show that inequality is harmful for the environment: the poorer the median voter relative to the average individual …
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'environnement. Does sustainable development only intend to show that the environment protection is necessary to let the ongoing economic … Dunkirk. An industrial region where economic durability depends as much on the protection as the valorization of environment …
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citizens of Istanbul (n=1565), a metropolitan city whose population is around 9 millions, with regard to their attitudes and …
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the environment, transport and higher education sectors. The analysis demonstrates that externalities reinforce EU growth …
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How was the birth of "Environmental Economics" related to the first Earth Day fifty years ago (April 22, 1970)? This short note introduces some ideas about an amazing burst of intellectual activity from 1968 to 1974. Environmental economics was not a field of economics before this brief period,...
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Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in the health effects of environmental exposure, yet little causal evidence exists to support such claims. We test this hypothesis by utilizing exogenous variation in both access to health care and environmental...
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Starting from the crisis on the real economy in 2008 it has been developed an intense discussion, supported by a number of declarations on the global scale, about the need for changes in the economy. A huge impact on this state of affairs was the analysis of the causes and effects of the...
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We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate national level. Our results are based on a comprehensive database of 121 countries. As climate policies we examine carbon taxes and emissions trading systems (ETS), as well as...
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