{"title":"Trade and the Equivalence Between Environmental Tax and Quota","authors":"Gang Li","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3708890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3708890","url":null,"abstract":"In a two-sector general equilibrium model with pollution (arising from production) affecting the productivity, I examine in both autarky and trade equilibria the equivalence between tax and quota, that is, whether they can replace each other to achieve the same environmental goals. I show that (i) sometimes tax cannot achieve what quota can; (ii) the equivalence/non-equivalence between tax and quota may change due to trade liberalization; (iii) the choice of numeraire matters under tax regulation.","PeriodicalId":222914,"journal":{"name":"GeographyRN: Political Geography (Topic)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129656941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rule of Law in Bangladesh: Illusion or Reality","authors":"M. Obaidullah","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3579202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3579202","url":null,"abstract":"Rule of Law is one of the most discussed subjects at the moment all over the world as well as in Bangladesh. It means a country which is governed in accordance with law not by men or individuals. This Study focuses on the concept of rule of law, few core aspects of rule of law and explanation of Dicey’s theory. Moreover, it also highlights what are provisions of constitution of Bangladesh regarding rule of law and the actual scenario of this. At the end of this paper, some strong corrective measures for ensuring rule of law are given. The qualitative method has been used in this study where data was collected from secondary sources.","PeriodicalId":222914,"journal":{"name":"GeographyRN: Political Geography (Topic)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126690774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Disintegration of the Judiciary Within Eurasian Integration","authors":"Maksim Karliuk","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3591244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3591244","url":null,"abstract":"The Eurasian Economic Union (‘eaeu’) – an international organization for regional economic integration in post-Soviet space – has a judicial body aimed at ensuring uniform application of law. This article argues that the eaeu Court will struggle in achieving its aim as there are issues of independence, it has diminished powers, and limits have been imposed on its interpretative practices, at least as compared to its predecessor. This may lead to problems in respecting the rule of law and ‘dis-integrates’ the judiciary in the sense of a common system involving national courts. At the same time, it is also argued that, although the Court’s procedural and substantive powers have been limited, the attempt to limit certain interpretative powers of the Court can hardly result in meaningful consequences for the development of law.","PeriodicalId":222914,"journal":{"name":"GeographyRN: Political Geography (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124934732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is Meat the New Tobacco? Regulating Food Demand in the Age of Climate Change","authors":"Lingxi Chenyang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3329397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3329397","url":null,"abstract":"Switching from a meat-heavy to a plant-based diet is one of the highest-impact individual lifestyle changes for climate mitigation and adaptation. However, conventional demand-side energy policy has focused on increasing consumption of efficient machines and fuels. Regulating food demand has key advantages. First, food consumption is biologically constrained, thus switching to more energy efficient foods avoids unintended consequences of switching to more efficient machines, like higher overall energy consumption. Second, food norms, like smoking norms, are malleable because eating, like smoking, frequently occurs in socially conspicuous environments. Insofar as place-based smoking bans and information regulation were essential in lowering the prevalence of smoking, the same strategies may be even more effective in reducing meat demand. Several policy reforms can be implemented at the federal level, from reform of food marketing policies to reforms in publicly subsidized meal programs.","PeriodicalId":222914,"journal":{"name":"GeographyRN: Political Geography (Topic)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116796187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial Abstraction, Legal Violence and the Promise of Appropriation","authors":"Chris Butler","doi":"10.4324/9781315665733-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315665733-3","url":null,"abstract":"Explorations of the social, embodied and imaginary dimensions of space have been a consistent feature of the successive waves of theoretical innovation that have accompanied the spatial, relational and material ‘turns’ in the humanities and social sciences during recent decades. An important background influence for much of this scholarship has been Henri Lefebvre’s account of the abstract constellation of spatial tendencies that characterises contemporary capitalism. This chapter will contribute to the reception of Lefebvre’s work within critical legal theory by identifying the importance of a relational theory of space in framing his account of the inherently political character of the production of space. In doing so, law will be identified as playing a crucial role in the reproduction of forms of spatial abstraction and their associated modes of violence and domination. As an example of a form of struggle which resists law’s concretisation of abstraction, Lefebvre’s concept of the right to the city can be understood as operating not only at the level of political contestation, but as also constituting an aesthetic demand for the appropriation of space. This account will prompt a consideration of the implications of Lefebvre’s account for an understanding of the concept of ‘spatial justice’ as a rupture of the imaginary boundary between the possible and the impossible, which reveals prospects for the juridical reassembly of spatial relationships amongst bodies inhabiting and appropriating their own spaces. It will be argued that Lefebvre’s relational theory of space provides a methodological lens through which we may imagine how, what is currently legally and politically impossible, may become a possibility.","PeriodicalId":222914,"journal":{"name":"GeographyRN: Political Geography (Topic)","volume":"314 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131898423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity in the D.C. Area: Findings from the 2016 D.C. Area Survey","authors":"M. Bader","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2846003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2846003","url":null,"abstract":"Washington, D.C. and its surrounding neighborhoods have become more racially diverse in recent years. Whereas the funk band, Parliament, once famously christened Washington “Chocolate City” and sang about its “vanilla suburbs,” many city and suburban neighborhoods today are interracially integrated. Anger and inequality that arose from Washington’s segregation boiled over into riots that rocked the city in 1968, making today’s racial integration all the more astounding. To investigate how D.C.-area residents perceive and experience racial diversity in their lives, American University conducted a comprehensive survey of their attitudes. We named the study the DC Area Survey (DCAS) and conducted it over 2 months during 2016 in some of the region’s most diverse neighborhoods. This report provides initial findings from that study.","PeriodicalId":222914,"journal":{"name":"GeographyRN: Political Geography (Topic)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128120950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tunisie: si Ben Ali avait appris la Géopolitique des populations... (Tunisia: If Ben Ali Had Learned Political Demography…)","authors":"G. Dumont","doi":"10.3917/popav.702.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/popav.702.0003","url":null,"abstract":"French Abstract: La revolution tunisienne de l'hiver 2010-2011 resulte notamment d'un facteur incontestable : le caractere devenu particulierement policier et corrompu du regime du president Ben Ali. Mais, en outre, au moins une des lois de la geopolitique des populations s'est exercee.English Abstract: The Tunisian revolution of the winter of 2010-2011 resulted in particular an undeniable factor: character become particularly police and corrupt regime of President Ben Ali. But, in addition, at least one of the laws of geopolitics population was carried out.","PeriodicalId":222914,"journal":{"name":"GeographyRN: Political Geography (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116311041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Testing resource curse triangle hypothesis: Extractive dependence, governance quality and economic growth","authors":"Khatai Aliyev","doi":"10.30546/2663-7251.1.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30546/2663-7251.1.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to examine so called resource curse triangle hypothesis. Employing panel of 43 resource rich countries for 2002-2011 period, authors apply panel ARDL and GMM techniques to investigate long-run relationship between extractive dependence index (EDI), governance quality indicators (voice and accountability; political stability and no violence; government effectiveness; regulatory quality; control of corruption; rule of law) and GDP per capita (PPP). Research reveals existence of strong bidirectional causality in all cases: low governance quality and higher GDP per capita leads to increasing dependence from extractives. In the long run, beer governance quality brings higher GDP per capita growth. Increasing extractives dependence also affects GDP per capita growth positively. On the other hand, empirical results reveal positive long-run causality from GDP per capita and negative long-run causality from extractives dependence to governance quality indicators. According to empirical findings, improving governance quality should be priority in resource rich economies which will enhance GDP per capita growth and decrease dependence from extractives.","PeriodicalId":222914,"journal":{"name":"GeographyRN: Political Geography (Topic)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121393487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}