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On the index of environmental awareness

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We develop a two-country model in which each country contributes noncooperatively to the global environment by improving its local environment. We introduce an index of environmental awareness that measures the extent to which a country is aware of the global environment. Then we demonstrate that this index plays a key role in evaluating the effects of income growth and international transfers on the global environment.

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  1. Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan

    Tetsuo Ono

  2. Faculty of Economics, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8345, Japan

    Yasuo Maeda

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This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Japanese Economic Association, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, October 16–17, 1999.

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Ono, T., Maeda, Y. On the index of environmental awareness. Environ Econ Policy Stud 5, 167–178 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03354028

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