Editor: Maria Llop

Air Pollution: Economic Modelling and Control Policies

eBook: US $26 Special Offer (PDF + Printed Copy): US $141
Printed Copy: US $128
Library License: US $104
ISBN: 978-1-60805-582-1 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-60805-217-2 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2011
DOI: 10.2174/97816080521721110101

Introduction

Environmental pollution has received the attention of both economists and ecologists who have integrated their ideas and concepts in recent decades. Production and consumption of material goods generates residuals that are disposed in the environment. Air emissions constitute one of the most important residuals, including greenhouse gases, as well as localized substances toxic to human health and the environment. How economic activity affects gas emissions is valuable information for pollution control and is extremely useful for defining and implementing successful environmental policies, aimed at improving the global efficiency of an economy.

The e-book presents the relationship between economic activities and air pollution. It describes research contributions focused on showing the properties and the usefulness of National Accounting Matrices with Environmental Accounts (NAMEA). Additionally, demonstrates the most recent advances in the input-output methodology and linear extended multisectorial models to capture the gas emissions processes with empirical applications of these methods to specific countries. The contents of the e-book make it an interesting platform of new knowledge for both academic public and people in national agencies of environmental regulation.

Contributors

Editor(s):
Maria Llop
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Spain




Contributor(s):
Vicent Alcántara
Departament d’Economia Aplicada of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Associate Professor at Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambiental (ICTA)
Spain


Keiichiro Asakura
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the Ryutsu Keizai University
Japan


Eduardo Barata
Assistant Professor at GEMF, Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra
Portugal


Niaz Ahmed Bhutto
Associate Professor at Sukkur Institute of Business Administration
Pakistan


Isabela Butnar
Research Assistant at the Departament d'Enginyeria Química of the Rovira i Virgili University
Spain


Selim Cagatay
Associate Professor at Economics Department of Akdeniz University
Turkey


M. Alejandro Cardenete
Associate Professor at Economics Department of the Pablo Olavide University
Spain


Francesc Castells
Professor at Departament d'Enginyeria Química of the Rovira i Virgili University
Spain


Luís Cruz
Assistant Professor at GEMF, Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra
Portugal


Charalambos Economidis
Assistant Professor at Department of Public Administration
Panteion University
Greece


Patricia D. Fuentes Saguar
Assistant Professor at the Cepartment of Economics of the Pablo Olavide University
Spain


Blanca Gallego
Research Fellow at the Integrated Sustainability Analysis Group of the University of Sydney
Australia
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Currently Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Heath Innovation of the University of New South Wales
Spain


Ana-Isabel Guerra
Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Applied Economics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Spain


Maria Llop
Associate Professor at the Departament d'Economia of the Rovira i Virgili University
Spain


Satoshi Nakano
Research fellow at the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
Keio Economic Observatory of the Keio University
Japan


Simona Sabena
Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Politecnico di Torino University
Italy


Ferran Sancho
Professor at the Department of Economics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Spain


Athanasios Sfetsos
Research Scientist in the Environmental Research Laboratory
INT-RP, NCSR of Demokritos
Greece


Nikos Stromplos
Director of National Accounts in the National Statistical Service
Greece




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