Documents et rapports
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Valuing water quality improvement in China : a case study of lake Puzhehei in Yunnan Province (anglais)
Even though surface water has been polluted almost everywhere in China, few economic valuation studies have been conducted on water quality changes. This paper reports an economic valuation study conducted...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 82868 Date du document: 1 octobre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kamata,Takuya,Kim, States Yoonhee,Shi,Yuyan,Wang,Hua
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Economic structure, development policy and environmental quality : an empirical analysis of environmental Kuznets curves with Chinese municipal data (anglais)
In many cases, the relationship between environmental pollution and economic development can be generally depicted by an inverted U-shaped curve, or an environmental Kuznets curve, where pollution increases...
Numéro du rapport: WPS5756 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: He, Jie,Wang,Hua
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Valuing water quality improvement in China : a case study of lake Puzhehei in Yunnan province (anglais)
While polluted surface water is encountered across most of China, few economic valuation studies have been conducted on water quality changes. Limited information about the economic values associated with...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5766 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Wang,Hua,Shi,Yuyan,Kim,Yoonhee,Kamata,Takuya
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Municipal solid waste management in small towns : an economic analysis conducted in Yunnan, China (anglais)
Municipal solid waste management continues to be a major challenge for local governments in both urban and rural areas across the world, and one of the key issues is their financial constraints. Recently...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5767 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Wang,Hua,He, Jie,Kim,Yoonhee,Kamata,Takuya
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Stakeholder dialogue as an institutional strategy for sustainable development in China : the case of community environmental roundtables (anglais)
Stakeholder dialogue, as an alternative institutional strategy for environmentally and socially sustainable development, has received little attention from researchers and practitioners in developing countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5759 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Wang,Hua
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Design and implementation of environmental performance rating and public disclosure programs : a summary of issues and recommendations based on experiences in East Asian countries (anglais)
A number of countries around the world have in recent years implemented environmental performance rating and public disclosure programs, and, where evidence is available, these programs have been shown...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5551 Date du document: 1 janvier 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gozun,Elisea G.,Laplante,Benoit,Wang,Hua
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Economic valuation of development projects : a case study of a non-motorized transport project in India (anglais)
One of the major difficulties in doing cost-benefit analysis of a development project is to estimate the total economic value of project benefits, which are usually multi-dimensional and include goods...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5422 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Wang,Hua,Fang,Ke,Shi,Yuyan
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The impact of environmental performance rating and disclosure: an empirical analysis of perceptions by polluting firms' managers in China (anglais)
Environmental performance rating and disclosure has emerged as a substitute or complement for traditional pollution regulation, especially in developing countries. Using data from China's Green Watch program...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5419 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jin,Yanhong,Wang,Hua,Wheeler, David
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Environmental performance rating and disclosure : an empirical investigation of China's green watch program (anglais)
Environmental performance rating and disclosure has emerged as an alternative or complementary approach to conventional pollution regulation, especially in developing countries. However, little systematic...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5420 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jin,Yanhong,Wang,Hua,Wheeler, David
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The value of statistical life : a contingent investigation in China (anglais)
Economic analyses of development projects and policies often involve assigning an economic value to changes in the risk of loss of human life. A typical term used in the economic analyses is the value...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5421 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: He, Jie,Wang,Hua
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Domestic water pricing with household surveys : a study of acceptability and willingness to pay in Chongqing, China (anglais)
In determining domestic water prices, policy makers often need to use information about the demand side rather than only relying on information about the supply side. Household surveys have frequently...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4690 Date du document: 1 août 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Li,Honglin,Wang,Hua,Xie,Jian
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Welfare measurement bias in household and on-site surveying of water-based recreation : an application to Lake Sevan, Armenia (anglais)
Studies comparing household surveys with on-site interceptor surveys have typically accounted for over-sampling avid users in the on-site interceptor surveys (that is, endogenous stratification). However...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3932 Date du document: 1 juin 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Laplante,Benoit,Meisner,Craig M.,Wang,Hua
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Are foreign investors attracted to weak environmental regulations? Evaluating the evidence from China (anglais)
One of the most contentious debates today is whether pollution-intensive industries from rich countries relocate to poor countries with weaker environmental standards, turning them into pollution havens...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3505 Date du document: 1 février 2005 Auteur: Dean, Judith M.,Lovely, Mary E.,Wang,Hua
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Environment as cultural heritage: the Armenian diaspora's willingness-to-pay to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan (anglais)
This paper presents a study of willingness-to-pay of the Armenian Diaspora in the United States to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan, a unique and precious symbol of the Armenian cultural heritage. Dichotomous...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3520 Date du document: 1 février 2005 Auteur: Laplante,Benoit,Meisner,Craig M.,Wang,Hua
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Estimating willingness-to-pay with random valuation models : an application to Lake Sevan, Armenia (anglais)
This paper presents a case study of willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimation using random valuation models. A contingent valuation survey was conducted in Yerevan, Armenia to estimate people's WTP for the protection...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3367 Date du document: 1 août 2004 Auteur: Laplante,Benoit,Meisner,Craig M.,Wang,Hua,Wu,Xun
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Phasing out polluting motorcycles in Bangkok : policy design by using contingent valuation surveys (anglais)
The authors use a contingent valuation method to study the design of economic incentives to phase out polluting motorcycles in Bangkok. Like in many other cities, the government of Bangkok has been considering...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3402 Date du document: 1 juin 2003 Auteur: Capannelli,Elisabetta,Xie,Jian,Shah,Jitendra J.,Wang,Hua
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Industrial ownership and environmental performance : evidence from China (anglais)
The authors explore the differences in pollution control performance of industries with different types of ownership in China-state-owned (SOE), collectively- or community-owned (COE), privately owned...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2936 Date du document: 31 décembre 2002 Auteur: Wang,Hua,Jin,Yanhong
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The determinants of Government environmental performance - an empirical analysis of Chinese townships (anglais)
This paper explores the determinants of government environmental performance at the local level. Chinese township governments, the lowest level in the hierarchical government structure, were selected for...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2937 Date du document: 31 décembre 2002 Auteur: Wang,Hua,Wenhua Di
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Environmental performance rating and disclosure - China's green-watch program (anglais)
This paper describes a new incentive-based pollution control program in China in which the environmental performance of firms is rated and reported to the public. Firms are rated from best to worst using...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2889 Date du document: 30 septembre 2002 Auteur: Wang,Hua,Bi,Jun,Wheeler,David R.,Jinnan Wang,Dong Cao,Lu,Genfa,Yuan Wang
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Incomplete enforcement of pollution regulation : bargaining power of Chinese factories (anglais)
Only a small number of studies have empirically examined the determinants of the monitoring and enforcement performed by environmental regulators, and most of these have focused on industrial countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2756 Date du document: 31 janvier 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Wang,Hua,Mamingi, Nlandu,Laplante, Benoit,Dasgup