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India’s urban environment: air and water pollution and pollution abatement
Sridhar, Kala S.; Kumar, Surender - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper focuses on air and water pollution in India’s cities, provides empirical evidence to demonstrate the seriousness of the challenges, discusses the relevant policies of national and local government that are used to address the challenges, discusses relevant political economy issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260859
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Do environmental regulations reduce greenhouse gas emissions? A study on Canadian industries
Sedigh, Golnaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
of the environment. Also, provinces with a higher rate of unemployment have less formal regulation on pollution density …; for those provinces, providing employment for citizens is more important than providing a healthy environment. Wealthier … provinces with a low employment rate face less pressure from society and can spend more money on the environment; therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835978
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Critical Analysis of Stakeholders Involvement and Environmental Impact: Conversion of Crude Oil Based Auto Rickshaws to CNG in Ahmedabad
Sapovadia, Vrajlal; Patel, Sweta; Patel, Akash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The present study aims to understand the prevailing under current, forces, strategies, policies & challenges faced by various stakeholders. The conversion of entire fleet of auto rickshaws to CNG was successful in the 5 years. Along with other measure of clean energy, Ahmedabad made remarkable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251896
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The environmental Kuznets curve within European countries and sectors: greenhouse emission, production function and technology
Auci, Sabrina; Trovato, Giovanni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
adoptions can force the system to a more efficient economy system in term of environment and in term of quality of life. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258257
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Air pollution:a case study of a cashew nut factory
Rjumohan, A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Probably the first experience of the human beings from the impact of air pollution might have taken place when they built fires in poorly ventilated caves. Since then our planet Earth has suffered much from man-made pollution. Cashew nut processing involves the hazards of both air pollution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109172
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The benefits of preventing crop loss due to tropospheric ozone
Spash, Clive L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
Agricultural crop production is highly dependent upon environmental conditions among which air quality plays a central role. Various air pollutants have been identified as a potential influence on commercial crops including SO2, NOx, O3 and CO2. In particular, ozone in the lower atmosphere has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110410
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Abating CO2 emissions in the Greek energy and industry sectors
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos; Kourtzidis, Stavros - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to construct the abatement cost curve for the Greek Energy and Industry sectors. To achieve our goal we present and analyze the abatement options available in the sector of energy and in the industrial subsectors of petroleum and gas refinery, cement and iron and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110604
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Valuing health impacts of the workers in Bangladesh due to air pollution
Mohajan, Haradhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper deals with valuing health due to air pollution in Bangladesh. Human capital is an important asset in economic development. From air pollution human capital can not be utilized properly and gross domestic product (GDP) of a country decreases. Willing to pay (WTP) to avoid 1 and 14...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112247
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Air pollution causes health effects and net national product of a country decreases: a theoretical framework
Mohajan, Haradhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper deals with green accounting and accounts the health effects of air pollution. It shows that due to air pollution human capital can not be utilized properly and net national product of a country decreases. The willing to pay system among workers is beneficial to the government, factory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113090
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A Note on Migration, Economic Opportunity, and the Quality of Life
Cebula, Richard; Vedder, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1972
This study empirically investigates the impact of not only economic opportunity but also the quality of life, including environmental dimensions, on net in-migration over the 1960-1968 period. Investment is treated as an investment decision. Using available data for the largest SMSAs in the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113361