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Showing 1 to 20 of 6759 for “"the environment"”.
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Trade and the Environment: The Environment within the World Trade Organization
There is no special mentioning of the environment in the GATT Agreement. However the member states realize that there can be overriding reasons that justify deviations from the major principles and obligations of the Agreement. For the discussion on trade-related environmental disputes there are …
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The environment and natural rights
The argument advanced is this thesis is that the entities that make up the environment are those that do not owe their origin to any willful creative activity but have evolved through accidental natural processes. This fact of not being willfully created makes the environment ontologically …
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Bush's hedges on the environment : an analysis of George Bush's rhetoric on the environment.
This thesis examines the environmental rhetoric of the Bush administration. The analysis encompasses the months from September 1989 through April 1990. It was discovered that Bush utilized several rhetorical stratagems in representing himself as the "environmental president" while maintaining his …
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The Environment: Alive, Whole, Interconnected and Interacting
… whose conditions are related to destructive environmental influences. Although the environment is a central construct in the nursing paradigm, its definition is client oriented, circumscribed, and does not adequately explain situations emanating from the larger physical, social, cultural, …
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Analysis of engineered nanomaterials in the environment
… nanoparticles (NPs) into consumer products, there is concern that these materials will be released to the environment with unknown ecological effects. Methods for detection and characterization of these materials at environmentally relevant concentrations are crucial to understanding this …
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Reformed theology, modernity and the environment crisis
The prospect of global ecological disaster fundamental challenge to modernity as the poses a dominant contemporary socio-cultural matrix. This challenge can only be responded to through a radical socio-cultural transformation which favours those, human and otherkind, who have been marginalised and …
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Drivers of enforcement in the Environment Agency
… dimensions of a regulator's social and political environment which play a significant part in influencing its approach to enforcement. Dr Keith Hawkins was responsible for the seminal work in this field, 'Environment & Enforcement", a piece of research based on a four year field study of water …
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Protection of the environment through criminal law /
… and is developing in constant communication with the natural environment - nature . Nature is an objectively existing reality that exists outside of consciousness and independently of consciousness and the will of both the individual and society as a whole. However, it is a condition, place and …
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ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
This dissertation examines the relationship between international trade and environmental outcomes. In particular, I study the impact of international trade on airborne pollutants, including the change in emissions and concentration as well as their welfare consequences. In the first chapter, I …
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Analysis of engineered nanomaterials in the environment
… nanoparticles (NPs) into consumer products, there is concern that these materials will be released to the environment with unknown ecological effects. Methods for detection and characterization of these materials at environmentally relevant concentrations are crucial to understanding this …
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International Trade, the Environment and Natural Resources
The linkage between trade and environment has been debated for several decades. The first chapter of my thesis examines how differences in environmental regulations across countries may affect trade patterns and pollution emissions when pollution is created by consumption. I develop a model of …
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Essays on economics, government and the environment
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1996.
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Essays on trade, CO₂, and the environment
The first chapter of this thesis uses a general equilibrium model of trade and the environment to investigate two questions. First, how do the gains from trade compare against the environmental costs of trade? Trade can generate environmental costs by requiring long-distance transportation of goods …
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