In this study, the relationships between financial development, environmental quality and economic growth are studied based on data from 102 countries over the period 1980–2010 using the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation. The econometric results show the following three basic conclusions: First, both financial development and environmental quality have a significant impact on econo...

Nowadays, the environmental pollution and degradation in China has become a serious problem with the rapid development of Chinese heavy industry and increased energy generation. With sustainable development being the key to solving these problems, it is necessary to develop proper techniques for monitoring environmental quality. Compared to traditional environment monitoring methods utilizing e...

This paper deals with second-best pollution taxation by investigating allocations instead of the corresponding tax rates. Assuming certain restrictions on utility and that the marginal revenue from environmental taxation is positive, it is shown that environmental quality is higher in second best where only distortionary taxes are used to finance public expenditures than in the first-best optim...

With technology licensing on quality innovation becoming a general phenomenon in the industry, this study focuses on the impact of quality improvement under different environmental standards. We established a three-country model to analyze the actions taken by the domestic firm located in the home country with high quality technology, the foreign firm located in the foreign country with low qua...

the objective of this study is to measure the city of tehran’s environmental quality in 2006 (the last census year). primarily, with a comparative analysis of a variety of urban sustainability indicator models, a collection of 54 indicators have been chosen and categorized as indicators of increase or decrease in urban environmental quality in the form of a simple mathematical model. based on t...

Using a vertically di↵erentiated product model, the paper aims to investigate the e↵ects of economic growth on market provision of product quality. The quality attribute considered is environmental-friendliness of products. Economic growth is modeled as a shift in income distribution. It shows that the e↵ect of economic growth depends on the form it takes. A growth in income that is uniform acr...

This paper describes ongoing work on the generation of German and French air quality reports on the basis of up-to-date environmental measurements. This real-world application is characterized by a simple and small sublanguage. The system is called with a bundle of user requests entered through a hyper-link navigator. For text planning, a schema-based component produces domain-speciic semantic ...

Due to the superiority of functional requirements of equipment and systems over human requirements in the field of architectural and environmental design of industrial buildings, users have to adapt themselves to the conditions which might be followed by imposed biological and psychological pressures. The present study examines the components and environmental parameters influenced by building ...

The major planning theories provide a theoretical foundation for environmental planning. This study extends the major planning theories and develops a robust conceptual framework to measure the key factors influencing local environmental-plan quality. A random sample of forty Californian local comprehensive land-use plans and associated planning processes is analyzed to identify the critical fa...