Introduction: The causal dynamics between environment, health expenditures and economic growth has recently started to be studied in the economics literature for both developing and developed countries. Methods: This study examines the causal relationship between CO2 emissions, health expenditures and economic growth using dynamic simultaneous-equations models for Iran over the period 1972-2...

globalization, increasing the global regulations of governmental and non-governmental organizations and customers’ request regarding to environmental compliance issues have led to organizations considering the green supply chain management to improve the environmental and economic performance. in order to maximize the efficiency of energy consumption and resources across the supply chain, green...

The operation of generating units to generate energy at reduced cost to reliably serve consumers, recognizing any operational restrictions of generation and transmission facilities is called as Economic Dispatch(ED).In the present paper, an evolutionary modified Deterministic Particle Swarm Optimization (DPSO) is applied for Environmental and Economic Power Dispatch (EED) problem to find fast a...

BACKGROUND The tourism industry which is one of the most dynamic economic activities in today's world plays a significant role in the sustainable development. Therefore, in addition to paying attention to tourism, sustainable tourism must be taken into huge account; otherwise, the environment and its health will be damaged irreparably. METHODS To determine the level of sustainability in this ...

In order to evaluate the development levels of countries, economic growth along with environmental quality account for important indices nowadays. The impacts of environmental quality (based on environmental performance index), the direct foreign investment, and trade openness on economic growth in selected developing countries have been scrutinized in the present study. In the present study th...

JULY/AUGUST 2003 129 P hil Strahan and various coauthors have written a series of significant papers on the impact of interstate banking and intrastate branching deregulation. His present paper summarizes and extends much of that research.1 I suspect that most economists would agree that draconian restrictions on branch banking or on the ability of bank holding companies to cross state lines ma...

Eating healthier or vegetarian and vegan diets are suggested options to reduce the environmental impact of the current diet. In this paper we investigate different scenarios and assess the reduction of environmental impact after restoring the nutritional adequacy by replacements. We used Linear Programming to find solutions that are as close as possible to the current diet, first without any fo...