This review has highlighted the important developments relating to noise issues performed by international organizations and activities in some developed developing countries improve environmental management.
 The World Health Organization is process of finalizing WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for European Region as an update Community 1999/2000.
 International Civil Aviation Org...

Serious attempts to come to terms with the issues underlying the current environmental crisis is calling into question some very basic assumptions within the mainstream traditions of economics and development. This article explores some of the insights which are arising from a combination of the fields of ecological economics and political ecology. The aim in combining these two fields is to fa...

S. R. Carpenter ([email protected]), Center for Limnology, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA. – W. A. Brock, Dept of Economics, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA and: Dept of Economics, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. – J. J. Cole, Cary Inst. of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY 12545, USA. – M. L. Pace, Dept of Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesv...

This entry examines the relationship between property rights and environmental protection. According to the ‘tragedy of the commons’ model, environmental pollution and resource depletion result from the inadequate specification of property rights in environmental goods. Two solutions typically are offered for averting the ‘tragedy’: (1) specify property rights (that is, privatize the commons) o...

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...

In a world where the ecological walls literally are closing in on us, the recent combination of world-system analysis and ecological economics provides a novel way to address one of the most pressing contradictions of global capitalism: the uneven distribution of natural resources and environmental burdens. As two scholarly strands sharing several conceptual overlaps, the biophysical lens of ec...

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section environmental and behavioural economics university of kassel papers on agent-based economics nr 10 2 Abstract In this paper we present a methodology for assessing material flow dynamics and their regulation by including the level of suppliers, producers, consumers and waste treatment in the automotive industry and by combining economic and technological features of their activities. Giv...