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Recycling And Remanufacturing In Input-Output Models, Randall Jackson, Taelim Choi, Nancey Green Leigh
Recycling And Remanufacturing In Input-Output Models, Randall Jackson, Taelim Choi, Nancey Green Leigh
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
Recycling and remanufacturing activities are gaining in importance, as a growing population and economy use up and wear out modern products, exhaust landfill capacity, threaten the environment, and discard potentially valuable and increasingly scarce resources. As an example, an estimated five billion pounds of carpet were sent to landfills in 2003 (CARE, 2003). Likewise, Americans discard computers, cell phones, LCDs and other electronic devices at an alarming rate. Estimates range from 100 to 250 million such items each year. As discard volumes rise and as resource scarcity becomes more critical, recycling, re-use, and remanufacturing have begun to take hold at …
Valuing Community Attributes In Rural Counties In West Virginia: An Application Of Data Envelopment Analysis, Maribel N. Mojica, Tesfa Gebremedhin, Peter V. Schaeffer
Valuing Community Attributes In Rural Counties In West Virginia: An Application Of Data Envelopment Analysis, Maribel N. Mojica, Tesfa Gebremedhin, Peter V. Schaeffer
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
The study used Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to examine community attributes of rural counties in West Virginia using variables determining quality of life. This analysis was done to understand the value of the social and economic characteristics associated with different communities as migration patterns in the US are mostly attributed to community characteristics determining the residents’ valuation of the quality of life in an area. County level data was used to identify counties that are inefficient, measured in terms of socioeconomic factors. The data is composed of output variables representing desirable community attributes and input variables representing the undesirable characteristics. …
Energy In A Resource-Based Regional Economy: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis, Hodjat Ghadimi
Energy In A Resource-Based Regional Economy: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis, Hodjat Ghadimi
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
States and even local governments are increasingly realizing the need for long-term sustainable energy-environment planning as an integral part of their economic development program. These sub-national units are progressively playing a more active role in advancing policies for the reliability, environmental sustainability, and exploring the economic development impact of their energy resources and supplies. This article outlines a modeling framework for an integrated analysis of the energy-environment-economy system in an energy resource-based region within a developed economy. The theoretical structure and mathematical skeletal of this dynamic optimal depletion computable general equilibrium model as the core of this modeling framework is …
Modeling Regional Recycling And Remanufacturing Processes: From Micro To Macro, Joyce Cooper, Randall Jackson, Nancey Green Leigh
Modeling Regional Recycling And Remanufacturing Processes: From Micro To Macro, Joyce Cooper, Randall Jackson, Nancey Green Leigh
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
This paper reports progress in modeling recycling and remanufacturing processes within metropolitan regional economies at the micro and macro levels. The paper presents interim results from a multi-year, inter-institutional research project funded by the National Science Foundation. We identify a number of issues that have arisen from an in-depth industry level analysis of obsolete and waste products generated in the Seattle, WA and Atlanta, GA metro regions from waste electronics (e-waste) and carpet production and consumption. The two metro regions were selected for comparative analysis because Seattle is a recognized leader in e-waste recycling and sustainable development programs, while Atlanta …
Lung Cancer Mortality Is Elevated In Coal Mining Areas Of Appalachia, Michael Hendryx, Kathryn O'Donnell, Kimberly Horn
Lung Cancer Mortality Is Elevated In Coal Mining Areas Of Appalachia, Michael Hendryx, Kathryn O'Donnell, Kimberly Horn
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
Previous research has documented increased lung cancer incidence and mortality in Appalachia. The current study tests whether residence in coal mining areas of Appalachia is a contributing factor. We conducted a national county-level analysis to identify contributions of smoking rates, socioeconomic variables, coal mining intensity and other variables to age-adjusted lung cancer mortality. Results demonstrate that lung cancer mortality for the years 2000-2004 is higher in areas of heavy Appalachian coal mining after adjustments for smoking, poverty, education, age, sex, race and other covariates. Higher mortality may be the result of exposure to environmental contaminates associated with the coal mining …