Environmental preservation is one of the top priorities United Nations' sustainable development goals (SDGs). investments for production not only demonstrate corporate commitment to these universally accepted but also create a safe and healthy work environment workers. However, previous studies have shown positive negative effects environmental on firm-level labor productivity. This paper aims ...

US shale gas production is generally expected to continue its fast rise. However, a cautious evaluation is needed. Shale gas resource estimates are potentially overoptimistic and it is uncertain to which extent they can be produced economically. Moreover, the adverse environmental effects of ever more wells to be drilled may lead to a fall in public acceptance and a strengthening of regulation....

International cooperation will be critical to solving the world's toughest environmental problems, including climate change, ozone depletion, and biodiversity. Regrettably, most evidence suggests that the 1,000 or so different International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) operating today are ineffectual, merely ratifying business-as-usual outcomes and doing little to improve the environment. Bu...

abstract by using cross-section data which gathered through a survey research in mashhad ,contingent valuation approach and tobit model this study tries to determine economical value of air pollution and effective factors on wtp. based on contingent valuation approach, air pollution total value of airpollution in high-polluted region equals 7134146560 rials per month and in middle-polluted regi...

Air pollution can have a repercussion on human health. Economic activity and non-renewable use lead to pollution. CO2 emissions are widely used by previous studies as proxy for environmental degradation. exhibit upward trends in most countries including developing countries. The issue has set alarm bells ringing; thus, this study embarks an investigation into the impacts of energy use, economic...

Although Kazakhstan is a fossil fuel rich country, there strong desire by policymakers to develop green and sustainable economy contribute the global energy transition. To understand overall situation in technology development industrial sector, we conducted first countrywide study Kazakhstan. In this paper, present results of large survey on use ‘green technologies’ companies every region coun...

This paper offers a unifying conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between climate change and “within-country inequalities,” referred here collectively as “social inequality.” Available evidence indicates that this relationship is characterized by a vicious cycle, whereby initial inequality causes the disadvantaged groups to suffer disproportionately from the adverse effects o...

Pollution from consumption and production is an inevitable part of economic processes. We employ a materials balance approach and develop an endogenous growth theory, with recycling activity, to examine the evolution of the economic and environment systems. This paper provides feasibility and optimality conditions for sustainable economic growth with rising environmental quality. The fundamenta...

The establishment of a tradable permit market requires the regulator to select a level of aggregate emissions and then distribute the associated permits (rent) to speci…c groups. In most circumstances, these decisions are often politically contentious and frequently in‡uenced by rent seeking behaviour. In this paper, we use a contest model to analyse the e¤ects of rent seeking e¤ort when permit...

In this paper, we use stochastic dynamic programming to model the choice of a municipality which has to design an optimal waste management program under uncertainty about the price of recyclables in the secondary market. The municipality can, by undertaking an irreversible investment, adopt a ‡exible program which integrates the existing land…ll strategy with recycling, keeping the option to sw...