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  2. Human impact on the environment - Wikipedia

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    Another example of a destructive introduced invasive species is the Burmese Python. Originating from parts of Southeast Asia, the Burmese Python has made the most notable impact in the Southern Florida Everglades of the United States.

  3. Demerit good - Wikipedia

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    There is an important conceptual distinction between a demerit good and a negative externality. A negative externality occurs when the consumption of a good has measurable negative consequences on others who do not consume the good themselves. [5] Pollution (due, for example, to automobile use) is the canonical example of a negative externality.

  4. Excludability - Wikipedia

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    In economics, a good, service or resource is broadly assigned two fundamental characteristics; a degree of excludability and a degree of rivalry. Excludability was originally proposed in 1954 by American economist Paul Samuelson where he formalised the concept now known as public goods , i.e. goods that are both non-rivalrous and non-excludable ...

  5. Criticisms of globalization - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, the good being traded is created using electricity and intermediate goods, which are oftentimes products from international trading. In 2018, countries under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (China, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and ten countries of ASEAN) accounted for 39.1% of global CO 2 emissions. [ 22 ]

  6. Environmental degradation - Wikipedia

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    Another approach is water privatization; despite its economic and cultural effects, service quality and overall quality of the water can be more easily controlled and distributed. Rationality and sustainability is appropriate, and requires limits to overexploitation and pollution and efforts in conservation.

  7. Ecological goods and services - Wikipedia

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    A market may be created wherein ecological goods and services are demanded by society and supplied by public and private landowners. Some believe that public lands alone are not adequate to supply this market, and that privately held lands are needed to close this gap. What has emerged is the notion that rural landowners who provide ecological ...

  8. Sustainable development - Wikipedia

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    Sustainable development is an approach to growth and human development that aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

  9. Common good (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Road is public good whenever there is no congestion, thus the use of the road does not affect the use of someone else. However, if the road is congested, one more person driving the car makes the road more crowded which causes slower passage. In other words, it creates a negative externality and road becomes common good. [1]