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Showing 1 to 20 of 336 for “"Environmental policy"”.
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Information and environmental policy
… is utilized in decision-making and its effect on environmental policy. In the first essay, I evaluate the price to which consumers respond under complicated billing structures. I exploit a natural experiment to estimate a causal effect of price for residential water customers during the …
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Volatility and Uncertainty in Environmental Policy
<p>Environmental policy is increasingly implemented via market mechanisms. While this is in many ways a great success for the economics profession, a number of questions remain. In this dissertation, I empirically explore the question of what will happen as environmental outcomes are coupled to …
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Towards a whole school environmental policy
… Central Lancashire. Its purpose is to assess how environmental education is organised in a cross section of Lancashire schools and how it could be developed. The question of whether a school can claim to provide a good environmental education without attending to its environmental performance is …
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Environmental policy implementation in developing countries
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Topics on market-based environmental policy
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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International maritime organization : rethinking marine environmental policy
As environmentalism has swept into political prominence, influencing the environmental policy of developed nations, the IMO- the UN dedicated legislator of the shipping industry- has been increasingly faced with challenges to its decision making process as well as to the effective fulfillment of …
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Three essays in environmental policy and institutions
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Essays in Public Finance and Environmental Policy
This thesis consists of three chapters in environmental economics and public finance. The first chapter tests for adverse selection on private information in the market for flood insurance. Using detailed flood insurance policy microdata and newly available estimates of flood risk, I develop a …
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Aviation environmental policy and issues of timescale
Every operational, technological, and policy decision affecting aviation represents a potential tradeoff among economic efficiency and impacts to climate, air quality, and community noise. Furthermore, effects in these domains occur over different temporal and spatial scales and with different …
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Passing the buck: federalism and Canadian environmental policy
… of federal and provincial responsibilities for environmental policy in Canada evolved, and the implications of that arrangement for protection of the environment. At a theoretical level, the example of environmental protection is used to explore the relationship between federalism and public …
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Risk, Language, and Power: The Nanotechnology Environmental Policy Case
… this dissertation I explore discourse around the environmental risks of nanotechnology, and through this study of nanotechnology make the case that the dominance in risk discourse of regulatory science is limiting policy debate on environmental risks, and that specific initiatives should be …
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Targeting of Ecosystem Goods and Services:Directing Agri-Environmental Policy Innovation
… active development and implementation of agri-environmental policies dealing with the provision of ecosystem goods and services over the years. However, these policies have often not been directed towards certain lands with the greatest potential for producing environmental benefits and those …
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Environmental policy implementation networks : who are the movers and shakers?
The current UK Government policy implementation framework, which directs the structure of partnership involvement in the environmental area, has introduced an implementation model which encompasses both ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ theoretical typologies, consequently, there is an opportunity to …
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Depolarizing Environmental Policy: Identities and Public Opinion on the Environment
<p>High levels of partisan polarization on environmental policies, and on climate change in particular, have led to policy gridlock in the United States. While most Americans rely on their partisan identities to guide their policy preferences on highly polarizing issues, other non-partisan …
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Regulating China's State Enterprises: Environmental Policy as a Bargaining Game
… recognizes the obvious shortcomings in China's environmental performance. However, it argues that it is insufficient to focus exclusively on either enforcement problems or the design flaws of individual policies. By contrast, the study identifies some of the macroeconomic and institutional …
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China's Paper Industry: Growth and Environmental Policy during Economic Reform
… of China's pulp and paper industry under environmental regulations, and reflects on the implementation of the regulations, and especially on market-based instruments. The dissertation includes two empirical chapters: one uses a frontier production function model to examine the impact of …
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Three Essays on the Impacts of Air Pollution and Environmental Policy
… analyzes the effects of United States environmental policy - specifically that which regards air pollution - on health, labor market, and environmental outcomes. The first chapter examines the potential long-term effects of childhood exposure to atmospheric lead. The outcome of interest …
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Environmental policy in Jordan : analysis, gap identification, and strategies for improvement
… fragile environment. It faces substantial environmental challenges due to its delicate environmental resources and its limited financial assets. These challenges are aggravated by the scarcity of available water, deterioration of the water resources, land contamination, desertification, …
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