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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Transboundary pollution."”.
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Assessing PM2.5 pollution and the role of transboundary pollution emissions across Greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 2018 to 2023
Transboundary haze events in Southeast Asia have been associated with elevated PM2.5 levels in Greater Kuala Lumpur (GKL), Malaysia. PM2.5 refers to fine particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 microns or less, capable of penetrating deep into the respiratory system and posing …
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Ambient Air Pollution and the Allocation of Environmental Enforcement Effort
In this dissertation, I show that transboundary pollution and penalties for noncompliance generate incentives for strategic behavior by state enforcement agencies: laxness in enforcement of polluting plants with higher potential to generate spillovers in the former and precautionary behavior which …
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ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
… from international trade by incorporating the transboundary nature of air pollutants.\footnote{This chapter is from a joint work with Eunhee Lee.} We run country-level panel regressions and find that concentration is correlated with transboundary pollution, constructed as the weighted sum of …
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The Role of Social, Economic, and Political Factors in the Design and Establishment of Antarctic Marine Protected Areas
… recent decades, habitat degradation and loss, transboundary pollution, resource overexploitation, and a rapidly changing climate have contributed to significant declines in global marine biodiversity. This global environmental crisis has inspired international environmental regimes, such as the …
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A 2007 aircraft-based study of plumes from biomass burning origin from Mexico and Central America advected over south Texas and the western Gulf of Mexico.
Biomass burning is the burning of living and dead vegetation which includes grasslands, forests, and agricultural lands (Levin, 1998). It is a global phenomenon and serves a multitude of purposes such as clearing of forests and brushland for agricultural use; control of weeds; production of …