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The Effects of Income on Happiness in East and South Asia: Societal Values Matter?
During the last two decades, economic studies on happiness have grown rapidly in particular, studies on the effect of income on happiness. Ng (Pac Econ Rev 7(1):51–63, 2002) has highlighted the East-Asian happine...
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Environmental Quality and Life Satisfaction: Subjective Versus Objective Measures of Air Quality
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of objective air quality on individual life satisfaction (LS) through the moderating effect of perceived air quality on the latter. Unlike previous stu...
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Optimal emission tax with pre-existing distortions
In contrast to the previous literature, this paper examines the optimal second-best environmental tax rate in the presence of pre-existing distortions by taxing emissions rather than commodities. First, by ext...
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Economic growth and air quality in China
The relationship between economic development and air quality for mainland China is investigated by examining the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). We compile a panel dataset comprising air quality, income, a...
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Applying Water Quality Modeling to Regulating Land Development in a Watershed
Achieving a balance between land development and environmental protection has always been a challenge for many policy makers around world. The purpose of our project is to build a management system for protect...
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Why are flood and landslide victims less willing to take mitigation measures than the public?
Almost annually, natural hazards such as floods and landslides cause a great deal of financial loss and human suffering in Taiwan. In order to gain a better understanding of disaster preparedness, this paper e...
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Valuation of in-stream water quality improvement via fuzzy contingent valuation method
Society benefits from rivers in many aspects. To the extent of water resources management, one of the salient issues is that the social benefit of in-stream water quality improvements is often difficult to be ...
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Evolution and evaluation of air pollution control policy in Taiwan
Over the last 5 years the air quality in Taiwan’s cities has gradually improved. Part of the credit for the improvement has been given to the air emission fee program that was first implemented in 1995. Before...
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Property rights and contractual approach to sustainable development
Sustainable development is argued to exist in weak and strong versions. Although the use of a property rights and contractual approach has been well understood in the case of weak sustainable development, the ...
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Alternative approach to combining revealed and stated preference data: evaluating water quality of a river system in Taipei
This paper combines data from a double-bounded referendum contingent valuation survey and a travel cost survey. Rather than linking the two data sets through a common utility function, as in Cameron (1992) and...
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Evaluating GCM Output with Impact Models
This study uses empirical agricultural impact models to compare the U.S. climate change predictions of 16 General Circulation Models (GCMs). The impact analysis provides a policy-relevant index by which to jud...
