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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"External costs"”.
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External costs of transports imposed on neighbours and fellow road users
… follows. The overall purpose is to study various external effects of the transport system; effects that are not considered (or not fully considered) today. The first paper estimates the relationship between accident frequency and homogeneous and inhomogeneous traffic flows, which is useful for …
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Cashing In On Dying Early?: The Impact of Error Terms on the Estimation of the External Costs of Smoking
… in risky activities to pay for the negative externalities caused by said activities. In the case of cigarette smoking, the notion has been that society as a whole subsidizes the smoking related external expenses through programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and group life and health insurance. …
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Social Marginal Abatement Cost of Negative Emissions : Incorporating Externalities into the Private Costs of Carbon Dioxide Removal
… consequences, necessitating the integration of external costs into decision-making processes based on cost-efficiency. Previous literature has dominantly focused on the private costs associated with carbon dioxide removal, excluding external costs and their impact on society. The objective of …
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A Total Social Cost Approach to Public Transport Planning in South Africa
… benefits. The emphasis is placed on net economic costs, despite the presence of external costs generated by the transport system and that are ultimately borne by society. External costs include costs due to accidents, pollution, noise, visual intrusions and amenity losses. Appraising transport …
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The cost of power : externalities in South Africa's energy sector
… context, this thesis investigates environmental externalities arising in South Africa's energy sector. Two questions are posed: first and foremost, which environmental problems give rise to the most significant social costs? Secondarily, how helpful is an environmental economic analysis in this …
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Air-quality related health impacts of food in the United States
… they operate; and (iii) by calculating the external costs linked to the air-quality related health impacts and climate impacts of individual foods, I find that total external costs of food production are comparable to the net cash income of the US farm sector. These findings can inform …
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The societal costs of methamphetamine use in Western Cape Province
Methamphetamine (meth) use results in various costs accruing to the meth user, society, and government. Internal and external costs of the pandemic are widespread, affecting the healthcare and social welfare systems, policing, private security, and the judicial and corrective services system. This …
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Root cause analysis and mitigation paths for persistent inventory shortages to an assembly area
… structures are proposed to internalize the external costs of delinquency, and the cultural viability of these options is explored. The key attributes of this viable, effective structure are control by the Fuselage customer and cultural infusion and strategic coordination with Supply Chain …
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A critical evaluation of road pricing in South Africa Duncan Lishman.
… use, particularly with regard to the pricing of externalities. By quantifying these externalities for the South African case, this paper reveals evidence of gross mispricing for road use. Specifically, the magnitude of road freight trucks’ external costs indicates that there is an absolute …
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A proposal for an improved institutional mechanism to facilitate interjurisdictional water transfers in Virginia
… uncompensated, and in some cases unrecognised, external costs and the delays and costs associated with political opposition to water transfers leads to economically less than optimum proposals being adopted to satisfy the water needs of transferring jurisdictions. After examining the …
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Development of Nation Wide Cost-Benefit Analysis Framework for Aviation Decision Making Using Transportation Systems Analysis Model
… demand forecast in the literature. In addition, external costs in term of noise and emission are also considered. A national environmental impact analysis introduced by new generation small aircraft system is conducted. Two case studies are discussed to illustrate the framework. The first one is …
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Urban transportation policies toward sustainability of mega-cities
… problems; - Examine methodologies to evaluate external costs of urban transportation from the perspective of environmental sustainability; - Propose, on the basis of case studies, measures to alleviate the environmental impact of transportation in existing megacities. The megacities of Mexico …
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Estimating the environmental costs of the hydro fuel cycle using life cycle assessment techniques and economic valuation
… impact assessment, is used to estimate average external economic damages from the hydro fuel cycle. Aggregated average damage assessments of the hydro fuel cycle are complementary to marginal and site specific assessments, and are useful for general energy policy planning. For the upstream …
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Effectiveness and acceptability of congestion pricing
… a common resource problem yielding a congestion externality that generates many external costs. Marginal social cost pricing has long been advocated as a means of alleviating market failures resulting from such negative (environmental) externalities. Congestion pricing comes in numerous forms …
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Boston's settlement housing: social reform in an industrial city
… disease, crime, intemperance, and immorality – external costs that were being born by the entire society. Yet American society and American philanthropic institutions were not prepared to deal with the by-products of the new industrial-capitalist economy (namely, extensive poverty and increased …
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The economic and environmental effects of local bus service deregulation in Britain
… to identify the effects of deregulation if external subsidy to the bus industry had not been reduced. Third, to estimate a number of the externalities, particularly the environmental effects, associated with substitution of bus for car travel.<br/><br/>Criticism of local bus service …
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Ecosustainable biomethane and fertilizerproduction through anaerobic co-digestionof animal manure and energy crops
… economic evaluations including electric energy costs, thermal energy requirements, biomethane sale incomes and external costs due to environmental impacts of biogas production+upgrading techniques. Within the described cost-benefit approach, the best overall balances seems to be assured by …
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Mitigating negative transport externalities in industrialized and industrializing countries
… is likely to increase transport-related negative externalities e.g., congestion, air pollution, climate change etc. The situation is severe in rapidly expanding cities where the demand for motorized transport is increasing. This has increased the pressure on the policy makers to devise policies to …