As a result of India's extremely rapid economic growth, the scale and seriousness of environmental problems are no longer in doubt. Whether pollution abatement technologies are utilized more efficiently is crucial in the analysis of environmental management because it influences the cost of alternative production and pollution abatement technologies. In this study, I use state–level industry da...

As part of an ongoing effort to apply the tools of systems engineering to the problems of modeling, controlling, and operating kraft recovery systems, a rather long historical record of chemical makeups to this process has been scrutinized. The data describe the pulp production, makeup of salt cake, and makeup of caustic for a single large pulp mill on a monthly basis over almost nine years fro...

Article history: Received 16 May 2007 Received in revised form 18 July 2007 Accepted 19 July 2007 Available online 16 August 2007 As a result of India's extremely rapid economic growth, the scale and seriousness of environmental problems are no longer in doubt. Whether pollution abatement technologies are utilized more efficiently is crucial in the analysis of environmental management because i...

Several pollution control regimes, including climate change policies, allow polluters in one sector subject to an emissions cap to offset excessive emissions in that sector with pollution abatement in another sector. The government may often find it more costly to verify offset claims than to verify compliance with emissions caps, and concerns about difficulties in enforcement may lead regulato...

I study the optimal design of marketable permit systems to regulate various pollutants (e.g., air pollution in urban areas) when the regulator lives in a real world of imperfect information and incomplete enforcement. I show that the regulator should have pollution markets integrated through optimal exchange rates when the marginal-abatement cost curves in the different markets are steeper than...

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