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Advertising Energy Saving Programs: The Potential Environmental Cost of Emphasizing Monetary Savings
(American Psychological Association, 2015)
Many consumers have monetary or environmental motivations for saving energy. Indeed, saving energy
produces both monetary benefits, by reducing energy bills, and environmental benefits, by reducing
carbon footprints. We ...
Health and Environmental Co-Benefits of City Urban Form in Latin America: An Ecological Study
(MDPI, 2022)
We investigated the association of urban landscape profiles with health and environmental outcomes, and whether those profiles are linked to environmental and health co-benefits. In this ecological study, we used data from ...
Local Benefits Of The Atlantic Forest: Evidences From Rural Communities In Southern Brazil
(Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2016)
Economic Feasibility Study for Improving Drinking Water Quality: A Case Study of Arsenic Contamination in Rural Argentina
(Springer, 2014-06)
Economic studies are essential in evaluating the potential external investment support and/or internal tariffs available to improve drinking water quality. Cost?benefit analysis (CBA) is a useful tool to assess the economic ...
Comparison of Net Benefits of Incentive-Based and Command and Control Environmental Regulations: The Case of Santiago, Chile
(OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2008-08)
The ambient permit system proposed in the literature for cost-effective pollution reduction is difficult to implement and may result in lower net benefits than using another instrument. The article develops a model for ...
Sustainable buildings for healthier cities: assessing the co-benefits of green buildings in Japan
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2017-10-01)
High concentrations of people and economic activities in urban areas have strengthened the links between cities, health and the environment. Cities are not only responsible for environmental and health problems but also ...
Environmental effects of COVID-19 pandemic and potential strategies of sustainability
The global outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is affecting every part of human lives, including the
physical world. The measures taken to control the spread of the virus and the slowdown of economic ...
An emergy-based evaluation of a reverse logistics network for steel recycling
(Elsevier B.V., 2013-05-01)
Efficient implementation of recycling networks requires appropriate logistical structures for managing the reverse flow of materials from users to producers. The steel sheet distributor studied had established a protocol ...