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Measuring the efficiency of power plant systems requires capturing fluctuations in the level of sales to customers as well as accounting for the effects of regulatory caps on emissions. This study proposes a novel effectiveness measure considering desirable outputs and undesirable outputs via data envelopment analysis (DEA). The new measure complements typical efficiency measures. We test the validity...
Sustainable manufacturing practices seek to optimize production efficiency while minimizing environmental impact. Nowadays, the implementation of sustainable manufacturing practices in companies has increased. By implementing sustainable manufacturing practices, firms can gain better access to international markets; enhance business profile, consumer perceptions and corporate reputation and increase...
Public policy deliberations are often informed by expert testimony. We explore the role of engineering judgment in the 2013 Congressional hearing on regulating the disposal of coal ash waste. We conclude that engineering testimony in a public policy debate suffers from a reductive, dichotomous distinction between technical judgment and policy ideas-a distinction based on the false assumption that...
The environmental regulation is formulated by central government and implemented by local government in China, and the environmental quality of whole nation is directly affected by the environmental regulation strategy of local government. For the implementation of environmental regulation, evolutionary process of strategy among local government, enterprise and central government from the perspective...
In order to study the impact of control mechanism on environmental regulation and high-tech enterprises technology innovation, through the questionnaire method, the exploration factor analysis and SPSS multiple linear regression method, the paper builds a conceptual model of the relationship between control mechanism, environmental regulation and high-tech enterprise technological innovation taking...
This paper explores the impact of environmental regulation on total factor productivity growth, from the perspective of a spatial econometric approach. The empirical findings are: (1) TFP growth increased slightly over the years for 1992–2008 in China, depending mainly on the technical change. (2) Spatial dependence and the productivity growth effect are statistically significant and positive. (3)...
China is in the heavy and chemical industry development stage, which the chemical industry has become the driving force of economic growth. In recent yeas, added value in chemical industry is sustained and rapid growth, chemical products output increased rapidly. However, this growth pays the cost of environmental pollution. This paper uses statistical analysis and econometrics methods, environmental...
Now China is facing the great pressure of carbon tariffs. Chinese government increases the intensity of energy saving gradually, strengthens the low-carbon regulations and appeals to the low-carbon economy in order to get rid of it radically. The industries of high energy consumption and high carbon emissions can only deal with government environmental regulations through making technological innovation,...
Enterprises are the direct creators of social wealth, they are also the main users of resources and main manufacturers of environmental pollution. Now the contradiction between economic development and environmental resources is prominent day by day, green management has become the inevitable choice for the enterprises, even the society, to develop sustainably. Some enterprises have begun to strengthen...
Environmental management measures are commonly used in international trade. Though they may have some restricting effects on export trade volume in short run, they can stimulate environmentally sound technology innovation in the long run. The innovation offset trigged by stringent environmental regulations will improve the firms international competitiveness.
The goal of this paper is to investigate life cycle management of carbon nanotube (CNT)-enabled electronic devices from a regulatory perspective. At present, there are consumer products containing CNTs on the market and even more in the research and development phase. Because the environmental and human health implications of nanotubes are of great uncertainty, it is critical to explore how to safely...
Business models provide the needed structure for implementation of business ideas in order to achieve a tangible end result, such as a product or service, which can be marketed and sold. Business models often rely on building blocks and the processes and communications between those building blocks to create a formalized structure needed in a successful business. IBM Systems and Technology Group (STG)...
The construction is almost complete on the largest single clinker production line in the world. At 12,000 metric tons per day clinker and 4 million metric tons annual cement capacity, this massive greenfield plant was built by Holcim in the United States along the Mississippi River in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. The uniqueness of this undertaking is not only the size, but also the strict efficiency...
The movement to integrate the industry policy into the environmental regulation has been observed in EU today. Now the practice of environment management is one of the most important activity for enterprises, and some enterprises attempt the differentiation from other companies by their own activities for considering the regulatory control. In the environmental regulation “REACH” in Europe, new concepts...
Porter Hypothesis points that proper environmental regulation can promote technical innovation. In order to verify the applicability of Porter Hypothesis in China, this paper uses China provincial panel data from 1999 to 2007 to make empirical study on the relation between environmental regulation and technical innovation. The results reveal that the relation is significantly positive. When the degree...
Saving water resource is one important part of environmental regulation. While water availability has been decreasing all over the world, rainwater utilization has been suggested to promote water resource saving. Tianjin, China, faces the same problem of lack of freshwater resource. Rainwater utilization is one effective measure to solve this problem. In this paper, the characteristics of rainwater...
Petroleum companies operating in Ecuador have been facing strict environmental regulation after the nationalist government was established. Greenland petroleum Ecuador Ltd is involved in a campaign performing strict environmental regulations and high environmental claim risks. In order to improve environment management efficiency, a comprehensive stakeholder identify, analysis and optimize method...
From the international comparisons of economic growth and energy consumption, China's energy consumption per unit production is one of the world's highest, and the Chinese unit environmental cost of GDP is in the world forefront calculating energy consumption companied with environmental protection. Because of the 70% energy consumption of our country coming from coal, environmental regulation of...
The interests of sustainable development of China's economy requires us to protect the environment, cherish resources, but the reality of international competitiveness requires us to maintain a competitive advantage, therefore, the coordinate development between economy and environment protection is our inevitable choice. Strict environmental regulation policies of developed countries are not only...
We discuss potential competitive effects of regulating carbon emissions in a transmission constrained electricity market. We compare two regulatory instruments, renewable portfolio standards and taxing emmissions. We derive general conclusions about impacts on prices and output on a three node network. We find that renewable portfolio standards increase the market power of nonpolluting generators...
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