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Environmental Management and Sustainable Development in India: Issues and Challenges
Hans, V. Basil; Jayasheela - In: Journal of Global Economy 6 (2010) 2, pp. 83-94
In the rural economy land is the site of production. Our villagers live and work with close relationship with nature; they love and adore nature. Intensification of resource use and diversification of occupation (even if we call it as technological advancement) pose serious challenges to balanced...
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Environmentally adjusted multifactor productivity : Accounting for renewable natural resources and ecosystem services
Cárdenas Rodríguez, Miguel - 2023
Multifactor productivity is a comprehensive measure of productivity where the underlying production function accounts for multiple factor inputs, traditionally labour and produced capital. While single-factor productivity is intuitively simple, such measure offers a biased picture of the economy...
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Differentiated Responsibilities On Population Explosion And Its Impact On Environment – A Corridor For The Crossing?
Sajimon, P.P. - In: Journal of Global Economy 6 (2010) 2, pp. 105-115
with impacts far beyond just the environment and implications on national security and development. As the world continues … sustainable development. Today, a number of mainstream population and environment groups are claiming that population growth is a … high. This paper examines several outstanding issues on the interface between population and environment. Significantly …
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Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development: With Special Reference to India Issues and Challenges
M, Ramakrishna B.; Jayasheela - In: Journal of Global Economy 6 (2010) 2, pp. 95-104
and several related factors are responsible for the rapid degradation of the environment. Environmental problems have … provisions have been made for the knowledge of environment and its conservation. In the country many centres are providing …. India is an active member of International Organizations concerning environment. Several programmes are going on under UNEP …
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Is economic rebalancing toward consumption “greener”? Evidence from visibility in China, 1984–2006
Li, Zhigang; Yuan, Jia; Song, Frank; Wei, Shangjin - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 1021-1032
The Chinese government has adopted a rebalancing strategy since 2011, shifting from an investment- to consumption-oriented growth model. An aim of this reform is for a “greener” development mode, but relevant empirical evidence is slim. In this study, we propose an innovative methodology to...
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Health Shocks and Natural Resource Management: Evidence from Western Kenya
Graff Zivin, Joshua; Thirumurthy, Harsha; Damon, Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Poverty and altered planning horizons brought on by the HIV/AIDS epidemic can change individual discount rates, altering incentives to conserve natural resources. Using longitudinal data from household surveys in western Kenya, we estimate impacts of health status on labor productivity and...
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Green triangular co-operation : an accelerator to sustainable development
Casado-Asensio, Juan; Pelechà Aigües, Néstor; … - 2019
This report showcases how triangular co-operation can contribute to achieving ‘green’ objectives (e.g. on climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, biodiversity, desertification, and local environmental issues). Data collected through an OECD survey on triangular co-operation...
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Think Globally, Act Globally : Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Glennerster, Rachel; Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are a global public good, which makes it efficient to act globally when addressing this challenge. We lay out several reasons that high-income countries seeking to mitigate climate change might have greater impact if they invest their resources in...
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Fiscal Subsidies and Environmental Sustainability: What does the Cross-country Empirical Estimates Suggest?
Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - In: Foreign Trade Review 48 (2013) 3, pp. 383-397
A number of developed as well as developing countries provide subsidies to domestic players, leading to overproduction and over-exploitation of natural resources, which pose a serious threat to environmental sustainability. The analysis in this article attempts to understand the role of...
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Business transformation towards sustainability
Müller, Anna-Luisa; Pfleger, Regina - In: Business research 7 (2014) 2, pp. 313-350
Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in today's corporate world and can contribute to the current and future success of organizations. Integrating ecological, social, and economic objectives into corporate decisions is a key success factor for transformation towards sustainability....
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