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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"Environmental regulations"”.
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International trade and environmental regulations
This dissertation consists of five Chapters. Chapter I extensively reviews the literature on trade and the environment published since 1970.
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Essays on environmental regulations and international economics.
… of three essays that study the links between environmental regulations and international trade and capital flows. The first essay investigates the relative importance of environmental regulations in shaping trade patterns of manufactured goods with particular reference to the OECD countries. I …
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Climate risks, environmental regulations, and corporate environmental management
… an increased interest in studying impacts of environmental risks and opportunities on business firms. Across various strands of the literature on this topic, however, there is still sizeable theoretical and empirical ambiguity around the direction of their impacts and underlying causal …
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Climate risks, environmental regulations, and corporate environmental management
… an increased interest in studying impacts of environmental risks and opportunities on business firms. Across various strands of the literature on this topic, however, there is still sizeable theoretical and empirical ambiguity around the direction of their impacts and underlying causal …
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Essays on environmental regulations and performance of firms
… and innovative approaches to address environmental problems in the last three decades of U.S. environmental policies. These new approaches affect polluting behavior via instruments other than taxes, permits or direct imperatives. They rely heavily on active engagement, collaboration …
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Environmental regulations and market competitiveness: some empirical evidence from electric utilities
… has been a recurring debate on whether or not environmental regulations indirectly affect a firm's cost structure by motivating it to engage in technological innovation. Accordingly, innovation would eventually play a key role in a firm's market competitiveness or profitability. The Porter …
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The relationship between environmental regulations and Korean economy (TFP, outward FDI, trade)
… analyse the relationship between stringency of environmental regulations and Korean economic performance. This research deals with three themes as the following: First examination lies on the effects of Korean domestic environmental restrictions on Total Factor Productivity in terms of industry …
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Methodology and Tools for High-Speed Vehicles Conceptual Design to Support Environmental Regulations
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Harnessing the regulatory framework for compliance with environmental regulations in the hydrocarbon sector in Nigeria.
… ecological disaster arising from unsustainable environmental exploitation of its natural resource. Evidence can be seen from the oil and gas sector. Oil and gas activities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria have not only left the environment in a deplorable state but have also distorted its …
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Economic Evaluation of the Impact of Alternative Environmental Regulations and Waste Management Systems on Illinois Hog Producers
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T22:03:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405573.pdf: 12985722 bytes, checksum: 13d50c4d0a64db9ed3f0ade2773065b1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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The role of the New York States Self Help Support System in assisting small rural communities in complying with environmental regulations
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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GHG Implications of Downstream Decisions in the Petroleum Industry: A Life Cycle Assessment
Environmental regulations are becoming more stringent in the United States and globally to reduce the climate change and human health impacts of fossil fuel use. This thesis investigates two case studies of current and future environmental regulations by developing a life cycle assessment (LCA) …
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Shaping the terms of competition : environmental regulation and corporate strategies to reduce diesel vehicle emissions
Environmental regulations are typically portrayed as an outside force stimulating development of environmental technologies in regulated industries. In reality, firms influence regulation by communicating their technological progress, which helps form a basis for future standards. Because of …
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Developing an environmental management approach to Libya's upstream petroleum industry.
Concern about environmental impacts of the upstream oil and gas industry in Libya, which is an essential part of the national economy, is increasing following more intensive development of the country's petroleum reserves. The petroleum industry recognises that potential environmental impacts and …
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Soil degradation in China: implications for agricultural sustainability, food security and the environment
… is concerned about agricultural sustainability, environmental quality and food security. A comparison by numerical methods between a public model and a private model implies that optimal soil management path is different for farmers than for social planners when externalities are considered. This …
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Should Tidal Energy Projects be run by the Public Sector? An Examination of Natural Resources Wales
… play a vital regulatory role to ensure that environmental regulations and standards are upheld. Funding was one of the main driving factors that made private sector intervention necessary, due to the limited public resources in Wales, that has held back Natural Resources Wales in the past. …
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An Analysis of the European Union Climate Policy: Governance, Domestic Politics and Policy Outcomes
… investigate whether leftist governments increase environmental policy stringency. I employ data on the price of environmental regulations and governments’ ideological composition. I perform pooled OLS regression models with Driscoll and Kraay standard errors and re-sults suggest that the presence …
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Changing the Rules of the Game: Rule-Adjustment Mechanics in Tabletop Games
… SMOG, an educational game focused on passing environmental regulations. The paper concludes with a discussion around the creative, strategic, and educational opportunities that rule-adjustment mechanics offer players and a set of recommendations for educators and game designers looking to …
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The Prediction and Occurrence of Chimney Subsidence in Southwestern Pennsylvania
… the mines abandoned before today's strict environmental regulations have degraded over half of Pennsylvania's counties. Subsidence incidents, known as chimney caves, are in the form of sinkholes and develop above abandoned room-and-pillar mines. Chimney caving is the most dominant type of …
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Impact of Environmental Regulation on Data Center Valuation
… architecture may impact the environment and "The Environmental Footprint of Data Centers in the United States" by Md Abu Bakar Siddik, Arman Shehabi, and Landon Marsto. This research delves into quantifying the environmental impacts of data centers, specifically focusing on carbon and water …
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