Plastic use and production have dramatically increased globally over the past 65 years with the improvement of life quality by the daily use of plastic products. Still, around 50% of the plastic produced is disposable ...

International agreements arising from the need to deal with the global warming promoted by countries decided to embrace a climate change policy bring on the debate of the impacts on firms in a global competitive market. ...

This work had as its theme the study of Brazilian Traffic Code relating to environmental issues. This study aimed to identify this law related to the protection of environmental health analyzing legal provisions related ...

I study the advantages of pollution permit markets over uniform emission (or technology) standards when the regulator has incomplete information on firms' emissions and costs of production and abatement (e.g., air pollution ...

This text presents the concepts of environmental, noise and visual pollution, which constitute a study about the municipality of Osasco - SP, with focus on Municipal Complementary Law 206/2011 and its complex implementation ...

Major cities in South-central Chile suffer high levels of particulate matter PM10 and PM2.5 due to combustion of solid fuels for heating. Exposure to these air pollutants is recognized as a major contribution to ill health ...

This paper develops a conceptual model to analyze how specific factors affect the compliance costs of three suboptimal policy instruments, when compared to the optimal ambient permit system (APS) benchmark. The model ...