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Ex Post Evaluation of Mitigation Measures in the Samalayuca II and Monterrey III Thermal Power Generation Projects Title: Evaluación ex-post de las medidas de mitigación en los pro...

González, Verónica - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This evaluation conducts an ex post review of the mitigation measures in the Samalayuca II and Monterrey III thermal power generation projects in Mexico. In general, it can be concluded that both thermoelectric power plants took into account most of the environmental impacts and mitigation...

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Does Democratization Benefit the Environment in the Long-Run in the Presence of Inequality?

Drosdowski, Thomas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2006

Political economy may provide an important link between inequality and pollution. This paper studies the dynamic … relationship between inequality and redistributive policy leading to differing transitional paths of pollution to the steady state …, using a pollution-augmented framework developed by Benabou and employing numerical simulations. The results indicate that …

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Preface

Gollier, Christian - Princeton University Press

Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and polluted land, air, and water. All these environmental problems raise the crucial challenge...

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Dominican Republic Environmental and Social Safeguards Issues Paper: Upstreaming Environmental and Social Risk Management

Redwood, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

The purpose of this technical note is to identify key environment and safeguard-related risks and opportunities that should be taken into account in the new Country Strategy for the Dominican Republic (DR) as required by the IDB's Environment and Safeguard Policy approved in January 2006....

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Improving the Sustainability of Office Partition Manufacturing: Balancing Options for Reducing Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds

Luisser, Frank S.; Rosen, Marc A. - In: Sustainability 1 (2009) 2, pp. 234-253

compounds (VOC) emissions. Base VOC emissions for a typical plant are estimated using a mass balance approach. Pollution …

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Sustainability in Agricultural Mechanization: Assessment of a Combined Photovoltaic and Electric Multipurpose System for Farmers

Mousazadeh, Hossein; Keyhani, Alireza; Mobli, Hossein; … - In: Sustainability 1 (2009) 4, pp. 1042-1068

This study is dedicated to the assessment of the possibility of replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy as a source of power in modern agriculture. We examined the use of a completely sustainable agricultural mechanization system based on a renewable energy system and a battery powered,...

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A Plastics Index for the Food Services Industry

Ebersole, Jon - In: Academica Turistica - Tourism and Innovation Journal 5 (2012) 2, pp. 5-18

Sustainability is an increasingly powerful slogan for environmental consciousness in business and commerce. For all its benefits in enabling our current living standards, the use of plastic has proven to cause significant health and environmental damage. For the tourism industry, food services...

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An economy model for GISMO: DART-PBL technical documentation.

Ignaciuk, Adriana M.; Peterson, Sonja; Hübler, Michael; … - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2009

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Financing Low Carbon Urban Development in South Asia: A Post-2012 Context

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

The cities of South Asia are growing at an unprecedented rate, and there is potential to steer this development onto a sustainable and green path. Carbon financing serves as a valuable revenue source to help cities earn additional income to support low-carbon development. With the end of the...

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Interdependences between sustainable development and sustainable economy

CÂMPEANU, Emilia Mioara; RĂDULESCU, Carmen Valentina - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics 6(595)(supplement) (2014) 6(595)(supplement), pp. 128-137

Sustainable development and sustainable economy are mostly used concepts. Understanding clearly their meaning allows their use in an appropriate context and, therefore, their boundaries in terms of theoretical and practical approaches on which occasion it can be given their interdependencies....

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