Productivity of market and environmental abatement in China

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shunsuke Managi ◽  
Shinji Kaneko
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Abatement

Separation of oil/water emulsions using nano MgO anchored hybrid ultrafiltration membranes for environmental abatement

2015 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Thanigaivelan Arumugham ◽  
Noel Jacob Kaleekkal ◽  
Dipak Rana ◽  
Mohan Doraiswamy
Keyword(s):  
Ultrafiltration Membranes ◽  
Oil Water ◽  
Environmental Abatement

The EU ETS and corporate environmental abatement

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 334-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roel Brouwers ◽  
Frederiek Schoubben ◽  
Cynthia Van Hulle
Keyword(s):  
Eu Ets ◽  
Environmental Abatement ◽  
The Eu

The challenge of managing water and material balances in relation to eutrophication

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Harremoës
Keyword(s):  
Material Balance ◽  
Nutrient Release ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Point Sources ◽  
Diffuse Sources ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Balance Analysis ◽  
Environmental Abatement ◽  
Nutrient Mining ◽  
Dpsir Approach

Eutrophication is the result of overfertilisation of the aquatic environment. In other words, the detrimental effects derived from increased anthropogenic release of nutrients to the environment. By modern concepts of environmental abatement this is no longer only a question of identifying and purifying discharges. It is a question of keeping track of the system of nutrient mining, utilisation, recycle, transport, conversion, containment and release in the modern society - in effect, the total balance of nutrients in society. In Denmark, the point sources of nutrient release have been reduced by an order of magnitude. That has contributed to some improvements, but the diffuse sources have turned out to be more significant than originally expected. They are harder to reduce. That is why more integrated approaches have to be analysed. Four approaches will be analysed: the DPSIR-approach, the 5-options approach, the cause-effect relationship and the material balance analysis.

scholarly journals Accounting for spatial variability in life cycle cost-effectiveness assessments of environmental impact abatement measures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios Pexas ◽  
Stephen G. Mackenzie ◽  
Michael Wallace ◽  
Ilias Kyriazakis
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Abatement Cost ◽  
Manure Management ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Pig Farming ◽  
Environmental Abatement ◽  
The Cost

Abstract Purpose The environmental and economic impacts of livestock production systems are typically assessed using global characterisation factors and data, even though several impact categories call for site-specific assessments. Here, we account for spatial variability by addressing potential interactions between geographic locality and the cost-effectiveness of farm investments that aim to reduce system environmental impact, using Danish pig production as a case-in-point. Methods An LCA-based, spatially explicit environmental abatement cost framework was developed to assess the cost-effectiveness of potential environmental abatement strategies. The framework was tested for Danish pig production in a “4 manure management × 4 geographic location” scenario analysis design. In addition to the baseline, the alternative manure management strategies were on-farm anaerobic digestion, slurry acidification and screw press slurry separation, implemented in an integrated pig farming system. The geographic locations differed in their proximity to Natura 2000 areas and in pig farming density. Eight different impact categories were assessed through an LCA using spatially explicit characterisation factors whenever possible, and annualised abatement potential was estimated for each manure management scenario and in each geographic location. We also estimated the financial performance for each scenario, through a discounted cash flow analysis at a whole-farm level. Results and discussion We observed significant interactions between geographic location and system environmental and economic performance under baseline conditions. Significant location effects were also observed for the cost-effectiveness of all manure management strategies tested. Anaerobic digestion was the only “win–win” strategy that increased farm profits while reducing system environmental impact in two of the geographic cases: when implemented in a region of high pig farming density located near Natura 2000 and when implemented in a region of high pig farming density located far from Natura 2000 areas. Slurry acidification and slurry separation achieved sizeable abatement potential for impacts on ecosystem quality but incurred large additional costs in all geographic case studies considered, particularly when arable land was limited near the pig farm. Conclusions Accounting for basic spatial characteristics within an environmental abatement cost framework had significant impact on the cost-effectiveness of on-farm investments for mitigation of system environmental impact. To the best of our knowledge, no studies to date have utilised such spatial characteristics within environmental abatement cost modelling of livestock farming systems. The presented framework has the potential to be further expanded using more detailed spatial, economic and geophysical data, which could ultimately improve decision-making regarding cost-effective investments that aim to improve the sustainability of livestock farming operations.

scholarly journals The Environmental Kuznets Curve with Recycling: A Partially Linear Semiparametric Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 274
Author(s):  
Myrto Kasioumi ◽  
Thanasis Stengos
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
The United States ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Partially Linear ◽  
Semiparametric Approach ◽  
Real Gdp ◽  
Partial Linear ◽  
Environmental Abatement

This paper is the first to study a comparatively new Environmental Kuznets Curve which traces empirically the relationship between environmental abatement and real GDP. Our model is a partial linear semi parametric model that allows for two way fixed effects to eliminate the bias arising from two sources. We use data for recycling and real GDP, for fifty states of the United States for the years between 1988 and 2017. We find evidence that this relationship is characterized by an increasing curve which confirms the existence of a J curve, a finding that agrees with the predictions from recent theoretical models.

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