The optimal pollution abatement levels are found by maximizing global social welfare in a permit and no-permit trade systems under the constrain that environmental goods are evaluated equally in rich and poor countries. Evaluating equally environmental goods in poor and rich countries makes possible to build a relation between the income elasticity of marginal utility e and the inequality avers...

This paper develops multiple-pollutant marginal abatement cost curve analysis to identify an optimal set of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation measures considering the trade-offs and synergies with other environmental pollutants. The analysis is applied to UK agriculture, a sector expected to make a contribution to the national GHG mitigation effort. Previous analyses using marginal abatement cost...

Public nuisance allows plaintiffs to sue actors in tort for causing environmental harm that disrupts the public’s use and enjoyment of land. In recent years, state local governments have filed public actions against oil companies, hoping hold them responsible climate change. Since no plaintiff has prevailed on merits so far, whether these lawsuits are worth bringing, given other legal avenues a...

Many production activities generate undesirable byproducts in conjunction with the desirable outputs they produce. The present study uses an output distance function approach and its duality with the revenue function to estimate the marginal abatement cost of CO2 emissions from a sample of thermal plants in India. Two sets of exercises have been undertaken. The marginal abatement cost is first ...

All environmental policies involve costs of implementation and management that are distinct from pollution sources’ abatement costs. In practice, regulators and sources usually share these administrative costs. We examine theoretically an optimal policy consisting of an emissions tax and the distribution of administrative costs between the government and regulated sources of pollution. Our focu...

1. Sustainable Growth: Concepts and Framework 1.1 Economic Growth 1.2 Sustainable Development 1.3 Sustainable Growth 1.4 Economic Growth Theory as a Framework for Analyzing Sustainable Growth 2. Economic Growth Without Environmental Factors: A Basic Model 2.1 The Model 2.2 Sustainable Growth in the Basic Model 2.3 Technological Change 3. Sustainable Growth With Nonrenewable Resources 3.1 Produc...

Environmental governance is an important indicator of the development of green logistics. It mainly include the solid waste utilization rate, pollution abatement investment, sewage treatment rate of logistics industry. It takes Beijing as an example, compares the environment governance development level of Beijing with the country, and gets analysis and comparison of the development level of Be...

Rapid industrial growth has led to elevated discharges of toxic chemicals and nutrients in water bodies. The level of a particular pollutant discharged into water bodies depends on industrial activities in the vicinity. Industries such as textiles, mining, tanneries, metal plating, fertilizer and agroindustries, batteries, pesticides, ore refineries, petrochemicals, and paper manufacturing are ...