m.a. abdoli 1 , b. tavakoli *1,2, m.h. menhaj3 1- dept. of environmental engineering, university of tehran, faculty of environmental science, tehran, iran. 2-dept. of environment, faculty of natural resources, university of guilan, someh sara, iran 3- dept. of rural development, faculty of agricultural sciences, university of guilan, rasht, iran *corresponding author's e-mail: babak_13...

collection of municipal solid waste (msw) accounts for a significant proportion of most municipal budgets, and has drawn some degree of researchers‟ interest. this study was conducted in ota, southwest nigeria, to explore the use of visual basic program as an innovative tool to select the most economic haulage system among three systems found in literature (conventional-, modified- and stationa...

The present article intends to highlight the importance of the impact of the economic activities on the environment, and of its integration in the decisional and financial system of the national economic entities. During the last decade, a new challenge has appeared for the professional accountant, namely that of the environmental accounting, meant to maximize life quality. Environmental accoun...

ast February, in a legislative proposal to reduce power plant emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggested that the economic value of saving the elderly from early death caused by air pollution was less than that of saving healthy adults. Two cost–benefit analyses for the rule, known as the Clear Skies initiative, were presented by the agency. A base analysis without the ...

This thesis aids in the development of a framework in which to conduct global benefit-cost assessments of aviation policies. Current policy analysis tools, such as the aviation environmental portfolio management tool (APMT), only consider climate and air quality impacts derived from aircraft emissions within the US. In addition, only landing and takeoff (LTO) emissions are considered. Barrett e...

Conservation management agencies are faced with acute trade-offs when dealing with disturbance from human activities. We show how agencies can respond to permanent ecosystem disruption by managing for Pimm resilience within a conservation budget using a model calibrated to a metapopulation of a coral reef fish species at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. The application is of general interest b...

Despite increasing calls for reform many countries continue to provide subsidies for gasoline and diesel. This paper quantifies the external costs from global fuel subsidies using the latest available data and estimates from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Under preferred assumptions about supply and demand elasticities, current subsidies cause $44 billion in external costs annu...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the resource efficiency and environmental impacts of producing one kilogram of edible protein from two plant- and three animal-protein sources. DESIGN Primary source data were collected and applied to commodity production statistics to calculate the indices required to compare the environmental impact of producing 1 kg of edible protein from kidney beans, almonds, egg...