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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"environmental policies"”.
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Benefit-cost assessment of aviation environmental policies
… global benefit-cost assessments of aviation policies. Current policy analysis tools, such as the aviation environmental portfolio management tool (APMT), only consider climate and air quality impacts derived from aircraft emissions within the US. In addition, only landing and takeoff (LTO) …
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Empirical essays on local pollution and environmental policies
… externalities have received great attention in environmental economics and, with mitigation policies on local pollutants becoming increasingly stringent in recent years, this topic will become even more prevalent in the future. Hence, it is of crucial importance to quantify the damages incurred …
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Default Effects in the Endorsement of Environmental Policies
… and implied endorsement in the context of environmental policy. Two hundred nineteen undergraduate participants were asked to vote on an ostensible ballot question regarding the enactment of seven environmental policies. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions based …
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Sustainability of Western Kentucky University: An Examination of Campus Environmental Policies, Performance and Potential for Change
… are in a pivotal position to address the environmental problems that global society faces now, but response to this challenge requires transformation in priorities and practices. Recognizing the impacts that universities have on the environment and the social and economic costs associated …
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Impacts of Energy and Environmental Policies on Air Quality: Bridging Observational Data, Statistical, and Atmospheric Models
… assessing the impacts of adopted energy and environmental policies on air quality is essential to evaluating policy progress and informing future actions. The increasing amount of measurement data on pollutant concentrations and precursor emissions provides an opportunity for tracking the …
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Intellectual Freedom of Academic Scientists: Cases of Political Challenges Involving Federally Sponsored Research on National Environmental Policies
… research, which had implications for national environmental policies. To structure this examination, I used a two- part framework. For the first part, I investigated the evolving interpretations of events and actors' interests, which revealed the tactics and pressures employed by government …
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Privatization of sewage treatment in China's coast cities : environmental policies, international experience, and policy implications for Guangzhou
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1996.
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Alberta bound : the interface between Alberta's environmental policies and the environmental management of three Albertan oil sands companies
… Curiously there is a significant difference in environmental performance among three companies involved in open pit mining of the oil sands, Syncrude, Suncor Energy and Shell Canada's Muskeg River Mine. Suncor Energy is known for their reputation in stakeholder collaboration and reporting …
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Implementing environmental policies in Developing Countries : responding environmental impacts of tourism development by creating environmentally protected areas in Bahia, Brazil
… of economic development and protector of environmental quality. Economic development interests tend to have priority on most government agenda in developing countries, creating obstacles to the implementation of environmental protection policies. This trend can be reversed by introducing …
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Resilience thinking and the influence of street-level bureaucrats on the implementation of EU environmental policies in overseas territories: lessons from Gibraltar.
… until Brexit, was required to implement EU policies but had limited opportunities to influence policy design and experienced severe shortages in physical, expertise and financial resources to meet the WFD’s requirements. The thesis combines ideas from transition theory and resilience to …
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The Impact of Environmental Policies and Innovation on the Investment in and Use of Natural Gas-Fired Combined Cycle Generators in the US Electricity Sector
… with NGCC to better understand how energy and environmental policies influenced the time and location of capacity changes, how this capacity has been used, and the role of technology on both.</p> <p>The first essay in this dissertation evaluates the impact of a government-sponsored research …
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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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Labor Market Adjustments: Evidence From British Columbia's Carbon Tax
… to estimate the labor market consequences of environmental policies. The focus on workers rather than industries as the unit of analysis allows me to investigate previously unobserved outcomes, such as (i) unemployment rates, labor force participation rates, and the natures of layoffs and new …
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Trade and the environment: A game-theoretic analysis of the linkages.
… to elucidate the endogenous determination of environmental policies in the context of North-South and North-North relations when pollution generated in one country can cross the border and flow into another country. It also provides a theoretical framework to analyze the political influence of …
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Three essays on the economics of consumer and recreational user behavior
This dissertation explores the interplay between environmental policies, consumer and recreational user behavior, and major global events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Comprising three distinct chapters, each chapter delves into a specific aspect of these themes. The first two chapters focus on …
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Corporate adoption and implementation of innovative environmental policy measures in China
… China have begun to implement systematic environmental policies aimed at curtailing industrial pollution. During the past three decades, the traditional environmental policies have evolved from simple directives regarding emission limitations into comprehensive packages using various …
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EMPIRICAL ANALYSES OF FOOD AND ENERGY ECONOMICS AND POLICY IN CHINA
… second important issue is the effect of environmental policies on productivity and profits. Critics of environmental policies often claim that such policies decrease productivity and profits. The effects of environmental policies on productivity, GDP, output, and profits is in part an …
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Which Green Policy?: an analysis of the relationship between state environmental policy and state economic growth
This project examines state environmental policy and its effect upon state economic growth. State policymakers actively pursue policies intended to positively impact state economic growth. A policy area surrounded by controversy regarding its affect upon economic performance is that of …
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