Industrial Pollution in Economic Development
Title | Industrial Pollution in Economic Development PDF eBook |
Author | Hemamala Hettige |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 43 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Economic development |
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Economic Development, Environmental Regulation, and the International Migration of Toxic Industrial Pollution, 1960-88
Title | Economic Development, Environmental Regulation, and the International Migration of Toxic Industrial Pollution, 1960-88 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert E. B. Lucas |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Contaminacion ambiental |
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Net displacement of toxic intensity toward developing countries may not have been inevitable in the last two decades. And toxic industrial migration seems to have been the result of restrictive trade policies in the developing countries themselves more than of regulatory cost differences between the North and the South.
Industrial Development and Environmental Degradation
Title | Industrial Development and Environmental Degradation PDF eBook |
Author | Se Hark Park |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781858988832 |
Industrialization to achieve economic development has resulted in global environmental degradation. This book identifies/quantifies environmental consequences of industrial growth, and provides policy advice, including the use of clean technologies, with reference to the developing world.
Informal Regulation of Industrial Pollution in Developing Countries
Title | Informal Regulation of Industrial Pollution in Developing Countries PDF eBook |
Author | Sheoli Pargal |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Contaminacion - Indonesia |
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Racing to the Bottom?
Title | Racing to the Bottom? PDF eBook |
Author | David Wheeler |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Air |
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Critics of free trade have raised the specter of a "race to the bottom" in which environmental standards collapse because polluters threaten to relocate to "pollution havens" in the developing world. The flaw in the race-to-the-bottom model is that its basic assumptions misrepresent the political economy of pollution control in developing countries
Controlling Industrial Pollution
Title | Controlling Industrial Pollution PDF eBook |
Author | Robert W. Crandall |
Publisher | Brookings Institution Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Law |
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Discusses the effectiveness of government regulations designed to reduce air pollution and recommends changes in air pollution policies and laws.
Economics of Water Pollution
Title | Economics of Water Pollution PDF eBook |
Author | Maddipati Narasimha Murty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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This book deals with the theoretical and applied approaches used to control pollution in developing countries and is the first of its kind in the Indian context. It examines the feasibility of using economic instruments for combating water pollution. The empirical findings of the book can serve as an invaluable guide for environmental policy-makers.