This article presents a simulation of the impact of the carbon tax reform on the Estonian economy using a computable general equilibrium model. Nine different scenarios have been considered. The...
A. Golub, A. Petsonk, D. Dudek, A. Golub, A. Petsonk, E. Strukova, ...
The authors wish to acknowledge Hallie Katarski and Uliana Popova for their contributions to this report. On the cover: Iceberg from a distance (Digital Vision). Our mission Environmental Defense is...
Water and the Rural Poor: Interventions for Improving Livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa (2008)
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Energy and Health 2 - Electricity generation and health (2007)
The provision of electricity has been a great benefit to society, particularly in health terms, but it also carries health costs. Comparison of different forms of commercial power generation by use...
Does the Kyoto protocol cost too much and create unbreakable barriers for economic growth? (2006)
Golub, A., Markandya, A., Marcellino, D.
We look to the literature on short-term cost models, long-term models based on endogenous growth, and long-term models that assume induced technical change, in order to demonstrate the current...
Empirical analysis of national income and SO2 emissions in selected european countries (2006)
Markandya, A., Golub, A., Pedroso-Galinato, S.
The linkage between per capita GDP and sulfur emissions for 12 Western European countries was analyzed over a period of more than 150 years. The analysis also looked at the impact of air pollution...
Valuing river characteristics using combined site choice and participation travel cost models (2006)
This paper presents new welfare measures for marginal changes in river quality in selected English rivers. The river quality indicators used include chemical, biological and habitat-level attributes....
Ancillary benefits of climate policy (2004)
Markandya, A., Rubbelke, D. T. G.
The benefits of climate policy normally consist exclusively of the reduced impacts of climate change, i.e., the policy's primary aim. Our analysis of benefits of climate policy suggests, however,...
Markandya, A., Hunt, A., Boyd, R., Taylor, T.
Considering the importance to adapt with the climate change, it results surprising the fact that little reflection was dedicated to the development of the measures of valuation of the different...
Alberini, A, Hunt, A, Krupnick, A, Cropper, M, Simon, N, Markandya, A, ...
Зкономика: окружающей среды и риродных ресуров (2003)
Markandya, A., Golub, A., Strukova, E., Mason, P., Savonov, Y., Hunt, A.
A sophisticated welfare analysis developed by Morris and Kis (1996) is presented here for the study of the effect of a product charge tax on the car tyre market in Hungary. The analysis is extended...
Disequilibrium models with rational expectations: an application to the UK labour market (1986)
Hall, S.G., Henry, S.G.B., Markandya, A., Pemberton, M.
This paper develops and estimates an explicit switching model for the U.K. labour market which includes expectations terms in the labour demand function. These expectations terms are dealt with by...
THE QUALITY OF CURRENT APPROXIMATIONS TO THE MEASUREMENT OF COMPENSATION COSTS (1978)
THE measurement of compensating variation, when data is given on the price and income elasticity of a good, as well as its budget share, is examined here. The exact measure is calculated when...
Pollution control and optimal taxation (1974)
This article attempts to contribute to the analysis of identifying an optimum tax for the generation of pollutants when both anti-bads and bads are included in the utility function. Bads and...
Technology, Environment and Employment: A Survey.
environment ; technology ; employment
Technology, Environment and Employment: A Survey.
environment ; technology ; employment
Cost benefit analysis of cleaning the Ganges: some emerging environment and development issues
This paper while attempting to estimate the social benefits of cleaning the Ganges river in India highlights some of the emerging environmental and development issues in the river cleaning...
Employment and Environmental Protection
One of the most pressing problems in an economy intransition is that of unemployment. Hitherto the`costs' of this unemployment have either focused onthe value of the lost production, or on the costs...
The influence of climate change considerations on energy policy: the case of Russia
A. Markandya, A. Golub, E. Strukova
To those working on climate change, it is obvious that energy policy should be influenced by climate change considerations. The question that this paper seeks to answer is, to what extent do they...
Poverty, Income Distribution and Policy Making
This paper deals with the key distributional issues arising from the regulation of the environment and the management of natural resources. The paper is divided into a section dealing with poverty...
Employment and Environmental Protection: The Tradeoffs in an Economy in Transition
One of the most pressing problems in an economy in transition is that of unemployment. Hitherto the 'costs' of this unemployment have either focused on the value of the lost production or on the...
The influence of climate change considerations on energy policy: the case of Russia
A. Markandya, A. Golub, E. Strukova
To those working on climate change, it is obvious that energy policy should be influenced by climate change considerations. The question that this paper seeks to answer is, to what extent do they...
Environmental sustainability and cost - benefit analysis
E B Barbier, A Markandya, D W Pearce
Efforts to 'operationalize' a concept of sustainability into appraisal methods for practical decisionmaking have been few and generally unpersuasive. In this paper it is argued that this need not be...
Economic Valuation of Forest Ecosystem Services: Methodology and Monetary Estimates
Aline Chiabai, C. M. Travisi, H. Ding, A. Markandya
By using ad hoc value transfer protocols, this paper offers a methodological contribution and provides accurate per hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all...