environmental damage Articles
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Book Review: Deleuze and Environmental Damage by Mark Halsey
Deleuze and Environmental Damage, by Mark Halsey. Aldershot, Burlington, Ashgate, 2006. 285 pp. ISBN 0-7546-2491-9Keywords: book ...
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Environmental damage, abatement and sustainable economic growth
This paper investigates the impact of abatement policies on the environment and economic growth. Environmental damage is a by-product of industrial production. As pollution reduces the welfare of every individual, it constitutes a negative impact of production. We focus on abatement policies to regenerate the environment. In social optimum, we obtain a simple rule for abatement expenditures. ...
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Environmental liability: the issues and dangers
There appears to be a growing demand for a coherent system of liability for environmental damage at Community level. This paper tracks the thinking of the Community on this issue and considers whether any such system is justifiable, together with some of the main substantive problems in designing such a system. The difficult issues of 'damage from the past' and retrospective liability are also ...
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Defining existence values of environmental resources
Traditionally, the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) is one of the most accepted techniques to assess non-use value of environmental goods, but it is being debated due to its validity and reliability are being quest. In general, it reveals an individual's willingness to pay for improvements of environmental goods through a virtual market but neglects the irreversibility of environmental damage. ...
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Adjusting China's GDP: a green accounting illustration
When green national accounts are calculated, environmental damage will have a negative impact on economic growth figures and therefore countries will be more likely to take potential damage into account when planning their growth path. Using China as an example, the following illustration will place monetary values on environmental problems and consequent health problems, using them to adjust ...
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Poverty and environmental degradation in Africa: towards sustainable policy for reversing the spiral
The nexus of poverty and the environment has led to a situation where the poor are both the victims and perpetrators of environmental damage in Africa. This paper examines the primary issues contributing to the downward spiralling two-way relationship between poverty and environmental degradation in Africa, and then discusses and analyses priority areas of a managed and sustainable policy ...
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Trade and environmental damage in US agriculture
Trade liberalisation has the potential to contribute to overall improvements in environmental performance, while countries might lose a comparative advantage in trade because of stringent environmental regulations. We analyse the environmental damages in the US agriculture since 1973 using state level data and conclude that states lose a comparative advantage by stringent environmental ...
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Game theoretic analyses of nitrate emission reduction strategies in the Rhine river basin
Pollution of transboundary rivers requires cooperation between the countries involved in order to alleviate the consequences. This paper applies game theoretic analyses to nitrate emissions in the Rhine river basin. It assumes that the 50% emission reduction policy agreed upon by the International Rhine Committee is individually rational for each source. This enables the estimation of a revealed ...
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Legal tools of environmental liability in Greece: application in the broader region of Asopos
This paper seeks to examine the legal tools of environmental liability in the Greek legal order which are: 1) the subjective civil liability of the Greek Civil Code; 2) the objective civil liability of Law 1650/1986; 3) the penal liability of Law 1650/1986; 4) the implementation of the Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) in Greece. The aim is to determine their effectiveness and to analyse ...
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New environmental liability law in Spain
Last 24 October 2007 the Official State Bulletin (BOE) Law 26/2007of 23 October on Environmental Liability was published. This text aims to transpose European Directive 2004/35/CE, of 21 April on Environmental Liability which seeks to achieve the prevention and remedying of environmental damage. It establishes a framework based on the 'polluter pays and repair' principle, according to which the ...
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The internalisation of environmental costs: implementing the Polluter Pays principle in the European Union
This paper frames the problem of implementing 'the polluter pays' in the European Union as a social-political process in which conflicts emerge and must be resolved between competing interests, between people holding different value systems and different principles of judgement, and also between different representations of future states and different visions of the world. 'The polluter pays' is ...
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Economic growth, the environment and employment: challenges for sustainable development in China
China has been heralded as the fastest growing economy in the world. However, this growth has been achieved significantly at the expense of its environment. Conventional measures of economic performance such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) do not take into account environmental damages, and thus may be biased towards an unsustainable development path. In this paper, we compare China's economic ...
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Restoring the rights of future generations
This paper promotes the idea of Rights for Future Generations as one of the ethical principles on which politics, economics and justice in the 21st century should be based. It argues that environmental damage caused by current generations has already impaired the ability of future generations to meet their basic needs. As a result of this, it argues that the concept of Sustainable Development is ...
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Environmental restoration of Minamata: new thinking brings new advances
This paper discusses the idea of environmental restoration and the creation of sustainable cities of industry and culture by spotlighting how the city of Minamata, Japan, which was severely affected by environmental damage, is rejuvenating itself by means of a unique strategy based on a new way of thinking and the fostering of human resources. Taking its lead from the concept of environmental ...
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Occupied Palestine Territories
The Seventh Special Session of the Governing Coun- cil of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)/Global Ministerial Environment Forum held in February 2002, adopted unanimously a decision concerning the environmental situation in the Occupied Palestin- ian Territories (GCSS. VII/7). The Governing Council requested UNEP to carry out a desk study as a first step in the implementation ...
By IOS Press
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Palmer hay flats trail hardening, Alaska - Case Study
Environmental damage from ATVs has increased as the use of four-wheelers becomes more popular for transportation and recreation. In some areas of Alaska, hundreds of miles of ATV trails cut across wetlands and streambeds, causing extensive damage to natural preserves. At the Palmer Hay Flats State Game Refuge, ATV riders caused the loss of vegetative cover and habitat values. A 6.5-mile trail ...
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The end of sustainability
The concept of sustainability is in danger of being used to serve the ends of a mass consumer society, if it promises to allow us to continue our consumerist way of life but without the usual environmental damage. I argue that even if we achieve what many supporters of sustainable development envision, namely, modes of production, distribution and consumption that minimise environmental ...
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Drilling Down into Piping Induced Vibration
In industrial environments, failures of piping components can lead to unsafe operation, environmental damage, and a significant loss of revenue. Excessive piping vibrations are a major cause of machinery downtime, leaks, fatigue failures, high noise, fires, and explosions in refineries and petrochemical plants. At WKC we apply the methods outlined in the Energy Institute (EI) ‘Guidelines ...
By WKC Group
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Politicization of wastewater overflows: the case of the Vantaa River, Finland
Here, we analyze the construction and politicization of the environmental problems created by the urban wastewater overflows in the area of the Vantaa River, Finland, between 2004 and 2015. The contradictory uses and values of the river as a wastewater channel and important recreational haven with widely acclaimed ecological values forms the context of this case study. We investigate what ...
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European policies on short sea shipping and their impact on 'private operators'
The environmental damages caused by road transport led European Commission to present a series of measures to promote the use of environmentally friendly transport modes or a combination of such modes, where the role and the impact of road transport could be minimised. Short sea shipping was identified as one of the transport modes that offered this potential. Since 1992, the commission embarked ...
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