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Fall 2023
Childhood forms the basis for a lifetime of ecological interaction. Due to many contemporary ecological challenges, including the threat of climate change, children today grow up with complex relationships to the environment. However, there remains relatively little scholarship on recent novels...
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Does technological advancement really lead to industrial pollution reductions? A spatial-dynamic analysis of industrial firms in Canada
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The environmental performance of an economic unit is often conditioned on both time (in terms of its history of pollution) and space (in terms of the performance and capital investments for abatement by its neighbors). However, despite large literatures addressing each of these linkages...
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Fall 2024
We consider the problem of a firm that wants to maximize its earnings. Production generates pollution as a by-product and has a negative impact on the environment. This negative impact causes disutility. The firm determines the optimal production rate and chooses between two types of technologies...
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Spring 2010
Human activities have profoundly altered the biogeochemical cycle of many elements including mercury (Hg). Since ~1850 AD, industrial processes are suggested to have led to a 3-fold increase in Hg deposition above natural, pre-industrial levels. Despite extensive historical evidence for...