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Environmental Quality and Economic Development
… for understanding the relationship between environmental quality and economic development. In pursue of this goal, I specialize to dynamic growth models in which pollution is treated as an externality generated in the production sector and affecting the consumption sector. I consider the …
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Incentive zoning and environmental quality in Boston's Fenway neighborhood
… an increasingly well-known proxy for environmental quality, as the density bonus amenity. In theory, the idea is to link profitable real estate development with environmental sustainability. In practice, my primary interest is in the tradeoffs between the perceived burdens of greater …
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The Economics of Environmental Quality Management: A General Systems Approach
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:13:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7500407.pdf: 6407522 bytes, checksum: 84c9437b7047345dae4476f1ad463a9d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Bioproducts and environmental quality: biofuels, greenhouse gases, and water quality
… policies, and the corresponding economic and environmental impacts.
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Geopolitical Ecology of Rebellion on Environmental Quality in Northeast Chiapas, Mexico
… size and reasons for rebellion as well as environmental practices of selected official and rebellious entities. Literature review of settlement patterns and the current rebellion reveals that land disputes have a long history in Chiapas. Chiapan environmental impact also proves to have a …
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Influence of occupant's behaviour on indoor environmental quality and energy consumptions
… at improving or maintaining the preferred indoor environmental conditions, is elaborated. The analysis of the literature highlights how a shared approach on identifying the driving forces for occupants’ window opening and closing behaviour has not yet been reached. In the second part of this …
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Assurance of Indoor Environmental Quality through Building Diagnostics at Schematic Design
… building performance in respect to indoor air quality and thermal conditions in a large judicial facility in North America was evaluated retrospectively at the end of the schematic design and substantial completion phases. A process for evaluation of building performance at schematic design is …
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Measurement of interior green space and its impact on indoor environmental quality
Indoor environmental quality directly affects the comfort, performance, and well-being of occupants. It is an important issue given people spend a large amount of time indoors. Plants absorb sunlight, capture carbon dioxide and transpire water. Thus, adding greenery such as potted plants and green …
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INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (IEQ) AND BUILDING ENERGY OPTIMIZATION THROUGH MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL (MPC)
… (MPC) to improve energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality in office buildings. Model predictive control is one of the advanced optimal control approaches that use models to predict the behavior of the process beyond the current time to optimize the system operation at the present …
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Appraisal and validation of rapid, integrated chemical and biological assays of environmental quality
To assess the significance of pollutants released into the environment it is necessary to determine both the extent of contamination and the biological effects they give rise to. This research is based on a tiered system, which commences with conventional analytical chemistry (gas chromatography), …
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Scientifically Based Water Resource Management and Environmental Quality Planning: Barry/Stone Counties, Missouri
Protection of the quality of valuable water and other environmental resources in the Mark Twain National Forest, located in Barry and Stone Counties, Missouri may be effected through application of a three pronged planning approach. This methodology includes 1) an integrated, comprehensive …
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The Impact of Local Environmental Quality on International Tourism Demand: The Case of China
… This paper studies the impact of local environmental quality on international tourism demand based on a panel data set of tourist arrivals from ten foreign countries in 18 typical provinces in China over the period of 1999-2010. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) with different specifications …
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Diagnostics of indoor environmental quality exposures and climate-infrastructure vulnerability in South African schools
… loop in South Africa, where poor indoor air quality and thermal conditions in school classrooms compromise the health, comfort, and cognitive performance of learners. This is amplified by a lack of long-term solutions with high-resolution data to quantify the environmental inequity between …
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A Methodology For Using Thematic Mapper Landsat Remotely Sensed Data to Determine Environmental Quality
… This relationship can be used to infer environmental quality of a pristine wilderness area, such as Piney Creek Wilderness. The environmental variables studied were geology, topography, soils, hydrology, climate, cultural features, and vegetation as a surrogate for the quality of the …
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Community Structure, Environmental Issue-Specificity and the Level of Citizen Mobilization for Environmental Quality
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:49:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7411954.pdf: 6245109 bytes, checksum: f5cabe0cf46363ec455febd0e5abf4f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Molecular Characterization of Hemoglobin Protein in Larvae of 4th Instar Chironomidae for Evaluating Environmental Quality
<p>Studying environmental quality is a challenging task. It is a complicated exercise since the environment is constantly influenced by numerous variables such as climate change, anthropogenic activities, and unexpected natural disasters. Traditionally, exposure to chemical pollutants depended on …
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Investigating environmental quality and economic growth interdependency: an environmental kuznets curve study of South Africa
Economic growth at the expense of environmental quality has become an increasingly important policy concern since 2015, with the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris. This study investigated the interdependency …
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Public Understandings of Environmental Quality: A Case Study of the Jefferson National Forest Planning Process
Environmental decision-making is a tournament of competing conservation agendas in which some values and beliefs are held up and exalted, others are dismissed and ignored, and still others are implicit and unnoticed. Stakeholders compete in the tournament to advance their value systems through the …
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