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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"environmental regulation"”.
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Essays on Environmental Regulation
… that often confront regulators in designing environmental regulations around the world: equity-efficiency tradeoffs, incomplete information, and significant ecologic and economic uncertainty across time and space. First, I analyze the efficiency and distributional consequences of trade …
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Informational Environmental Regulation in Practice
Environmental degradation limits the prospects of sustainable economic development and the pursuit of a life of better quality. An informational approach to environmental regulation, a policy innovation implemented after direct regulation and economic incentive mechanism, has exhibited its positive …
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The Value of Ecofeminism for Environmental Regulation
Environmental degradation happens in every country, at every level and scale, in many forms, throughout the world. It affects the Earth, its ecosystems, as well as people, animals, and plants. While everyone is affected, the poor are the most vulnerable to the ravages of environmental degradation. …
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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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NOx control and environmental regulation : techniques and discriminatory social outcomes
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994.
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Environmental regulation and international competitiveness: Cross-industry and cross-country analyses
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Enforcement without autonomy : the politics of labor and environmental regulation in Argentina
… and politicized bureaucracies enforce labor and environmental regulations? Through a study of subnational variation in Argentina, this dissertation develops a framework to explain why bureaucrats are able to enforce regulations in some cases and not others. The framework focuses on two factors: …
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Environmental regulation of the growth, physiology and virulence of <i>Legionella pneumophila</i>
… their virulence gene expression in response to environmental stimuli. Temperature and the availability of iron are considered to be stimuli which signal entry to a host environment. <br></br><br></br>The first part of this study utilised chemostat culture to investigate the influence of growth …
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Influence of environmental regulation on automobile materials substitution decisions--the plastic fuel tank
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1991.
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Trade and welfare effects of unilateral environmental regulation: The case of Malaysian palm oil
Some environmental problems transcend national boundaries and pose issues for international as well as domestic policies. The impacts of domestic environmental policy on the welfare of output and input suppliers are evaluated using a partial vertically integrated model. The model includes …
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Labour Agency and Transnational Environmental Regulation - A Study of the Relevance of Global Framework Agreements
… growing role of labour actors in processes of environmental regulation is reflected in and influenced by the negotiation and implementation of global framework agreements that include environmental provisions (EGFAs). Departing from previous studies of GFAs, the thesis provides a thoroughly …
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Essays on gasoline price spikes, environmental regulation of gasoline content, and incentives for refinery operation
… the relationship between gasoline price spikes, environmental regulation of gasoline content, unanticipated refinery outages and other recent structural changes in the domestic oil market. In the first chapter, I detail current regulations related to gasoline content. Implemented regionally to …
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Directed organizational stability and undirected evolution : environmental regulation in the U.S. printed circuit fabrication industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1994.
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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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There's Something Happening Here: What is Really Happening on the Front-lines of Environmental Regulation
Environmental policy debates are gaining momentum in the public square from scholars and citizens alike. From all sides of the debate, a growing consensus is emerging that advocates a shift in the environmental regulatory system in the United States from one that emphasizes command and control …
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Function and Environmental Regulation ofkpsF, the First Gene of the Region One Operon of Escherichia Coli K1
Temperature is the only environmental stimulus currently known to affect K1 capsule expression. Capsule is maximally expressed at body temperature (37$\sp\circ$C or 98.6$\sp\circ$F), but is turned off at temperatures commonly encountered in the external environment, below about 26$\sp\circ$C. …
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