ERS/USDA http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/FoodborneIllness/#2010-5-17 From website: The Economic Research Service (ERS) estimates of the costs of illness and premature death for a number of foodborne illnesses have been used in regulatory cost-benefit and impact analyses. Like all cost estimates, the ERS estimates include assumptions about disease incidence, outcome severity, and the level of medical, productivity, and disutility … Continue reading »
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Quality of Water from Public-Supply Wells in the United States
USGS / Patricia L. Toccalino and Jessica A. Hopple http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/studies/public_wells/ From USGS study website: About 105 million people—more than one-third of the Nation’s population—receive their drinking water from one of the 140,000 public water systems across the United States that use groundwater as their source. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessed water-quality conditions … Continue reading »
Tar Sands Invasion: How Dirty and Expensive Oil from Canada Threatens America’s New Energy Economy
Corporate Ethics International, Earthworks, NRDC, and the Sierra Club http://dirtyoilsands.org/files/TarSandsInvasion-FINAL-low.pdf NRDC Press Release: The new report from Corporate Ethics International, Earthworks, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club is a primer on tar sands and the sticky energy issues this dirty fuel raises. Proposals for a major pipeline to bring tar sands oil into … Continue reading »
International Cooperation on Climate Change Adaptation from an Economic Perspective
Fondazioni Eni Enrico Mattei / Kelly C. de Bruin, Rob B. Dellink and Richard S.J. Tol http://www.feem.it/userfiles/attach/20105121510114NDL2010-063.pdf Abstract: This paper investigates the economic incentives of countries to cooperate on international adaptation financing. Adaptation is generally implicitly incorporated in the climate change damage functions as used in Integrated Assessment Models. Kelly C. de Bruin, Rob B. … Continue reading »
Trade and Migration with Renewable Natural Resources : Out-of-steady-state Dynamics
World Bank Working Paper 5310 by Ramon Lopeza http://tinyurl.com/33xngp2 Summary: Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India, and other countries into the world economy have led to increased pressure on common-property renewable natural resources. The problem is particularly worrisome for economies that obtain a large share of their income from the exploitation … Continue reading »
The Effects of Domestic Climate Change Measures on International Competitiveness
World Bank Working Paper WPS 5309 / Hiau Looi Kee, Hong Ma, and Muthukurama Mani http://tinyurl.com/24ytw4x Summary: Under the Kyoto Protocol, industrialized countries (called Annex I countries) have to reduce their combined emissions to 5 percent below 1990 levels in the first commitment period of 2008-12. Efforts to reduce emissions to meet Kyoto targets and … Continue reading »
Thirty-five Years of Long-run Energy Forecasting : Lessons for Climate Change Policy
World Bank working paper WPS 5298 / Jean-Charles Hourcade and Franck Nadaud http://tinyurl.com/2fbpvz2 Summary: This paper sheds light on an implicit dimension of the climate policy debate: the extent to which supply-side response (emission-reducing energy technologies) may substitute for the transformation of consumption behavior and thus help get around the political difficulties surrounding such behavioral … Continue reading »
Carbon Offsets with Endogenous Environmental Policy
World Bank Working Paper WPS 5296 / Jon Strand http://tinyurl.com/25a8vrl Summary: Interests in obtaining carbon offsets in host countries for Clean Development Mechanism projects may serve as an obstacle to implementing more stringent general environmental policies in the same countries. A relatively lax environmental policy, whereby carbon emissions remain high, can be advantageous for such … Continue reading »
