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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"environmental externalities"”.
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Properties of natural systems and the efficiency of market-based solutions to environmental externalities
… the efficiency of policy instruments to regulate environmental externalities. In the first study, I use a population data set of irrigation wells in Nebraska's Republican River Basin to analyze whether adopting spatially differentiated groundwater markets leads to significant savings in abatement …
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Welfare effects of biofuel policies in the presence of environmental externalities and pre-existing distortions
… has not been adequately examined. Moreover, the environmental impact of these policies, and their impact on fuel taxation has not been sufficiently addressed in the literature. This dissertation examines the market and welfare effects of biofuel policies in the US, specifically those relating to …
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The cost of power : externalities in South Africa's energy sector
… goals of economic efficiency, social equity and environmental sustainability, there has, as yet, been very little analysis of problems at the energy-environment interface. In this context, this thesis investigates environmental externalities arising in South Africa's energy sector. Two questions …
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The Production of Space, Place, and Food: The Ecology of Money and the Emergence of Transformative Circuits of Money Capital
… in the production and reproduction of social and environmental externalities. By means of the Marxian circuits of money capital, each of these food systems is modeled to analyze metabolic changes as distance between the stages: purchase, production, and sale are spatially differentiated. The …
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Financing alternative development through double bottom line private equity funds & a real estate social investment framework
… to a host of negative economic, social, and environmental impacts. Growing dissatisfaction and concern over these negative impacts has given rise to development models that seek to accommodate the demand for new built space through alternative spatial forms, development locations, development …
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A szabályozó eszközök rengetegében. A villamosenergia-szektor piaci kudarcait kezelő szabályozó eszközök egymásra hatásának vizsgálata = In the jungle of regulatory instruments. Analysis of the interaction of regulatory instruments dealing with the market failures of the electricity sector
… introduced three in detail in our dissertation: environmental externalities, market failures related to energy efficiency investments, and negative externality of carbon-dioxide emission. A number of regulatory instruments are available to manage these market failures. These include the excise …
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Economic and environmental opportunities in electronics industry
… equipment (WEEE) are economic loss and environmental externalities. Incomplete recovery of materials in waste mobile phones results in a great amount of economic loss. Many studies aim to improve the situation by characterizing metals within printed circuit boards (PCBs). My work focuses …
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Urban transportation policies toward sustainability of mega-cities
… study was carried out on policies to address the environmental damage caused by urban public transportation in megacities. Policy recommendations were proposed to alleviate the environmental impact of transportation in two existing megacities, Mexico City and Guangzhou City, using lessons learned …
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Effectiveness and acceptability of congestion pricing
… market failures resulting from such negative (environmental) externalities. Congestion pricing comes in numerous forms (e.g., tolls on roads or express lanes), but has only been sporadically adopted despite congestion being a growing problem. The literature argues that concerns on equity and …
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Damnesia: An examination of public participation and evolving approaches to hydropower development in the United States and Brazil
… have long been political flashpoints where environmental, economic and social considerations have vied for priority. Historically, economic benefits of large hydropower projects have been assumed to outweigh the costs, a rationale which catalyzed the construction of large hydropower dams …
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Techno-economic analysis of hydrogen, electric, and gasoline light-duty vehicles in three carbon tax scenarios
… as a path for massive production to account for environmental externalities. Life Cycle Analysis, Circular Economy and Smart Capitalism are articulated as solutions aiming to NetZero transportation targeting the segment responsible for the most GHG emissions in the industry, mid-sized cars. …
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Managing conflicts between the environment and mobility : the case of road-based transportation and air quality in Mexico City
… between providing mobility and achieving environmental objectives. Managing such potential conflicts is important to ensure that the economic benefits of efficient and effective transportation services are realized while the social and environmental externalities, such as air pollution, …
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Water consumption footprint and land requirements of alternative diesel and jet fuel
… vulnerability to volatile prices; security and environmental externalities; and a lack of investment in alternatives to petroleum-derived fuels. Although RFS2 aims to reduce the climate impact of transportation fuels, the policy raises a number of additional environmental concerns, including the …
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CEO narcissism and strategic entrepreneurial behaviors: the moderating role of industry environment
… remains incomplete if researchers ignore the environmental externalities. Therefore, we examine the contingency role of the industry environment on the relationship between CEO narcissism and SEB. Narcissists inherently love to stand out in the crowd, and therefore narcissistic CEOs push their …
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The role of market-based incentives in promoting low carbon development in developing countries
… growth without the accompanying negative environmental externalities inherent to the business as usual approach. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationship between market-based incentives (MBIs) for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the underlying host country context. …
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A technique for multi-attribute utility expansion planning under uncertainty: with focus on incorporating environmental factors into the planning process
… also requiring electric utilities to internalize environmental externalities in their planning processes. The potential for new legislation on currently uncontrolled effluents like CO₂ likewise remains. There is thus a need to examine the modeling of emissions that would reflect not only the cost …
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The role of tax incentives in addressing the energy crisis in South Africa
… investment in renewable energy to address the environmental externalities. The study finds that renewable energy incentives, with special focus on temporary rooftop solar incentives, are well-designed and administratively efficient with sunset clauses to address short-term challenges. The …
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Three Essays On Welfare Effects Of Government Intervention
… a core driver for researches in the subfield of environmental economics. Despite the progress made in the modeling of social welfare with environmental externalities, many questions regarding secondbest biofuel policies, interaction between biofuel policies and finance system, and connection …
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Regulating the environmental impacts of the electricity supply industry.
… of electricity and costs associated with environmental impacts. The optimal situation would be one where such impacts are minimised per unit of electricity service used, notwithstanding cost considerations. However, the present regulatory regime fails to account sufficiently for …
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Institutional and fiscal policies for forest conservation
… to climate change and entails further environmental externalities such as biodiversity loss and soil erosion. Consequently, the preservation of the world’s remaining tropical forests is the objective of international and national policies. Preventing deforestation requires identifying …
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