TY - RPRT A1 - Bolz, Simon J. A1 - Naumann, Fabrice A1 - Richter, Philipp M. T1 - Unilateral Environmental Policy and Offshoring N2 - Expanding on a general equilibrium model of offshoring, we analyze the effects of a unilateral emissions tax increase on the environment, income, and inequality. Heterogeneous firms allocate labor across production tasks and emissions abatement, while only the most productive can benefit from lower labor and/or emissions costs abroad and offshore. We find a non-monotonic effect on global emissions, which decline if the initial difference in emissions taxes is small. For a sufficiently large difference, global emissions rise, implying emissions leakage of more than 100%. The underlying driver is a global technique effect: While the emissions intensity of incumbent non-offshoring firms declines, the cleanest firms start offshoring. Moreover, offshoring firms become dirtier, induced by a reduction in the foreign effective emissions tax in general equilibrium. Implementing a BCA prevents emissions leakage, reduces income inequality in the reforming country, but raises inequality across countries. T3 - Würzburg Economic Papers (W. E. P.) - 110 KW - Umweltpolitik KW - Außenhandel KW - offshoring KW - emissions leakage KW - environmental policy KW - BCA KW - heterogeneous firms KW - income inequality Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-359033 ER - TY - THES A1 - Nwadinobi, Chinedum Bede T1 - Environmental problems and sustainable development (a study of the Niger-Delta Region of Nigeria) : a terra incognita T1 - Umweltprobleme und nachhaltige Entwicklung (eine Studie des Niger Delta Region von Nigeria) N2 - The tendency towards the exploitation of the resources of creation is the result of a long historical and cultural process. The modern African Communities have witnessed man’s growing capacity for environmental transformative intervention. The aspect of the conquest and exploitation of resources in rural communities such as in the Niger Delta of Nigeria has become predominant and invasive, and has even reached the point of threatening the environment’s hospitable function: the environment only as resource risks threatening the environment as home. In this respect, the ethical judgement of the social realities on ground is very decisive. And this is the very important aspect where the Catholic Social Ethics has a role to play. Because of the environmental crisis in this region through technological advancement, there is urgent need for a balance through the introduction of the model of a sustainable development. The socio-ethical model of sustainability in this work is a framework so constructed that women, men, families and communities in the Niger Delta are to be the agents which determine what their developmental strategies are. Although their developmental opportunities and decisions are sometimes constrained by various factors, it remains the fact that they alone bear responsibility for their environment and must live with the consequences. So if sustainable development in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria is to extend beyond narrow technical understanding, it must one that generally seek to embrace the cultural and social systems of the people. This will go a long way in reducing dependency and increase self-empowerment and will place more value on what the people understand and practice. Bede Chinedum Nwadinobi, a native of Alike Obowo in Imo State (Nigeria), is a Catholic Priest of Okigwe Diocese (Nigeria). He studied Philosophy and Theology at St. Joseph Major Seminary Ikot-Ekpene. He also worked as a Vice-Principal of Queen of Apostles College Okigwe (Nigeria). At the University of Würzburg (Germany), he earned his doctorate in Catholic Theology specializing in Catholic Social Science. N2 - Umweltprobleme und nachhaltige Entwicklung (eine Studie des Niger Delta Region von Nigeria) KW - Catholic Social Ethics KW - Nigeria KW - Nigerdelta KW - Umweltpolitik Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-117624 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Klawitter, Jörg T1 - Die Ökologiebewegung: Schlaglichter zur soziologischpolitikwissenschaftlichen Analyse, zur historischen Genese, zum aktuellen Entwicklungsstand N2 - No abstract available KW - Umweltpolitik KW - Umweltethik Y1 - 1986 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-47107 ER -