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The Long Run Demand for Lighting: Elasticities and Rebound Effects in Different Phases of Economic Development
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-07-26)
The provision of artificial light was revolutionised by a series of discontinuous innovations in lighting appliances, fuels, infrastructures and institutions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Britain, the ...
Households WTP for the Reliability of Gas Supply
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-07-07)
The security of natural gas supply is an important issue for all EU countries due to the region’s heavy dependence on imported supply sources and in light of energy demand for gas that is continuously increasing. Discussions ...
The Private Provision of International Impure Public Goods: the Case of Climate Policy
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-09-09)
We discuss a tax-transfer scheme that aims at addressing the under-provision problem associated with the private supply of international public goods and at bringing about Pareto optimal allocations internationally. In ...
Price Premium for High-Efficiency Refrigerators and Calculation of Price-Elasticities for Close-Substitutes: Combining Hedonic Pricing and Demand Systems
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-08-30)
This article uses the hedonic pricing method to estimate the price premium paid for the highest energy-efficiency label (A+) in the refrigerators market of the Basque Autonomous Community (Spain). The estimated figure is ...
The Equivalency Principle for Discounting the Value of Natural Assets: An Application to an Investment Project in the Basque Coast
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-10-10)
Making decisions about optimal investments in green infrastructure necessitates setting social discount rates. This paper suggests a practical way for determining the discount rate for projects or programmes in which one ...
Lima COP20: Another small step on the long road to Paris
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-01)
The Lima summit was not expected to achieve specific agreements on the reduction of emissions, but to establish the bases of a legal document to be agreed on at the next meeting in Paris (December 2015) and of the Intended ...
Modelling ecosystem services trade-offs in agricultural systems
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-02)
*Agriculture is a source of provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services, and depends on them to function. *Reducing negative trade-offs and identifying potential synergies between ecosystem services demands a ...
Impuestos ambientales sobre la contaminación del aire y el cambio climático: un análisis comparativo de los impactos distributivos para España
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-10)
Los impactos distributivos de los impuestos ambientales son claves para su viabilidad política. - El efecto de los impuestos ambientales en el bienestar es reducido, especialmente cuando se reciclan los ingresos. - Los ...
The Health Effects of Climate Change: A Survey of Recent Quantitative Research
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-10-25)
In recent years there has been considerable scientific and public debate on climate change and its direct and indirect effects on human health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2006), some 2.5 million people ...
Trends in Income and Price Elasticities of Transport Demand (1850-2010)
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-02-24)
The purpose of this paper is to estimate trends in income and price elasticities and to offer insights for the future growth in transport use, with particular emphasis on the impact of energy and technological transitions. ...