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Polluting production – environmentally sound alternatives; A general model of production externalities [PDF]

, 2002
With the determination of principal parameters of producing and pollution abatement technologies, this paper quantifies abatement and external costs at the social optimum and analyses the dynamic relationship between technological development and the ...
Kocsis, Tamás
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Calculating environmental cost indicators of apple farm practices indicates large differences between growers

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2017
This study evaluates the environmental impact of current apple cultivation practices in Flanders, Belgium. It evaluates integrated production, the most common practice, and it compares this production method with conventional and organic production.
Bernd Annaert, Yanne Goossens, Annemie Geeraerd, Erik Mathijs, Liesbet Vranken   +4 more
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Methodology for Assessing External Costs in the Energy Industry

Managerial Economics, 2012
The article presents a methodology for assessing external cost in the energy industry. This requires a quantification of externalities and valuation of losses and damage to the natural environment using indirect methods based on attempts to assign market
Marek Michalski
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The Social Costs of Electricity Generation—Categorising Different Types of Costs and Evaluating Their Respective Relevance

Energies, 2017
Various electricity generation technologies using different primary energy sources are available. Many published studies compare the costs of these technologies.
Sascha Samadi
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Avoided Mortality Associated with Improved Air Quality from an Increase in Renewable Energy in the Spanish Transport Sector: Use of Biofuels and the Adoption of the Electric Car

Atmosphere, 2021
This paper assesses the health impact, in terms of the reduction of premature deaths associated with changes in air pollutant exposure, resulting from double-aim strategies for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants from the transport ...
Ana R. Gamarra, Yolanda Lechón, Marta G. Vivanco, Mark Richard Theobald, Carmen Lago, Eugenio Sánchez, José Luis Santiago, Juan Luis Garrido, Fernando Martín, Victoria Gil, Alejandro Rodríguez-Sánchez   +10 more
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The external cruising costs of parking [PDF]

Journal of Economic Geography, 2017
Existing work emphasizes the importance of traffic congestion externalities, but typically ignores cruising-for-parking externalities. We estimate the marginal external cruising costs of parking—that is, the time costs that an additional parked car imposes on drivers by inducing them to cruise for parking—which is one of the main components of cruising-
İnci, Eren, Van Ommeren, Jos, Kobus, Martijn   +2 more
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Strategic Framework of Air Traffic Development

Promet (Zagreb), 2008
The paper elaborates the past development of air traffic inEurope from the aspect of its economic benefits and ecologicallack of sustainability of conventional technology.
Sanja Steiner, Borivoj Galović, Željko Radačić   +2 more
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A method for calculating the external costs of farm animal welfare based on the Welfare Quality® Protocol

Frontiers in Animal Science, 2023
The production of food from animals poses societal concern about the welfare of these animals in Western countries and increasingly also in economically developing countries.
Luuk S. M. Vissers, Coen P. A. van Wagenberg, Willy H. M. Baltussen   +2 more
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Comparison of financial and external costs related to the use of selected electric and conventional passenger cars – the example of Poland

Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, 2019
Since the early 1990s, more and more restrictive car emission standards have been successively introduced, and since 2015, targets of CO2 emission have also been in force.
Trela Mariusz
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The Health Costs of Revised Coal Mining Limits in Northern Bohemia

Energies, 2016
Brown coal has been the major source of energy for more than 150 years for the Czech economy, but its role in the coming decades is nowadays the source of heated debate.
Vojtěch Máca, Jan Melichar
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