Sustainable transportation and mobility are key components and central to sustainable development. This research aims to reveal the macro-level social, economic, and environmental impacts of alternative vehicle technologies in the U.S. The studied vehicle technologies are conventional gasoline, hybrid, plug-in hybrid with four different all-electric ranges, and full battery electric vehicles (B...

1 Introduction The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of community matching, one of the methods we will use to analyze the economic impacts of gaming venues in Massachusetts. 1 Community matching involves selecting a group of communities that are economically and demographically similar to the casino host communities in Massachusetts. Once casinos open in Massachusetts, comparisons...

A model of economic growth and environmental quality is presented in this paper, which then focuses on measuring the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality for China's four big economic regions. The inter-regional differences among the four areas are also compared. The research results show that the relationships between the three industrial waste emissions and economic ...

Sustainability analysis, or triple bottom line analysis, is increasingly recognized as a holistic approach when all the three pillars of sustainability (environmental, economic and social aspects) are equally incorporated into the decision-making process of a project. Currently, the tools for assessing the environmental and economic impacts are well established. On the contrary, the development...

Economic inequality, in particular vertical inequality income and wealth within countries, 1 has widened considerably with potentially dramatic economic, political social consequences. 2 Reflecting the need for urgent action on United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10 focuses reduction of various forms between countries. 3 In that context, a number recent interventions have sought ...

This paper evaluates the impacts of increased economic integration with the United States in the wake of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) against the backdrop of the " great free trade debate " of the late 1980s. Part One briefly summarizes the key issues raised in the debate, when proponents claimed that the FTA would boost long-term economic g...

The study of the impact of economic activities on natural resources through global supply chains is increasingly demanded in the context of the growing globalization of economies and product fragmentation. Taking Spain as a case study and a sector with significant economic and environmental impacts, the agri-food industry, the objective of this work is two-fold. First, we estimate the associate...