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and resettlement governance, rural livelihoods, and international relations connected to China’s hydropower expansion. Dam …) -- Chapter 3. Leaving the Three Gorges after resettlement: Who left, why did they leave, and where did they go? (Brooke Wilmsen …, Andrew van Hulten, Yuefang Duan) -- Chapter 4. Contestation over moral economy: Distant resettlement from the Three Gorges …
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The world’s largest gas producer and exporter, Russia has an enormous energy saving potential. At least 30 billion cubic meters – a fifth of Russian exports to European OECD countries -- could be saved every year by enhanced technology or energy efficiency. As the era of cheap gas in Russia...
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Main description: Angesichts einer drohenden Veränderung des Weltklimas wurde die Notwendigkeit erkannt, den Ausstoß klimarelevanter Spurengase, insbesondere CO2, zu reduzieren. Ein Weg dazu könnte in der Substitution von Energieträgern bestehen, wobei sich der Elektrizitätserzeugungssektor...
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"Climate change is a key problem of the twenty-first century. China, as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has committed to stabilize its current emissions and dramatically increase the share of electricity production from non-fossil fuels by 2030. However, this is only a first step: in...
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The Open Economy and the Environment asks what globalization means for environmental quality and the use of natural resources in developing economies. The authors develop theoretical models that trace the effects of trade and trade liberalization on sectoral resource allocation, factor returns,...
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Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last … praised the dam for its technical complexity and the skills required to construct what was then the world's fifth-largest mega-dam …. Portuguese colonial officials cited benefits they expected from the dam?-?from expansion of irrigated farming and European …
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Introduction : stranded assets and the environment / Ben Caldecott -- Stranded assets : then and now / Dimitri Zenghelis, Roger Fouquet and Ralph Hippe -- The "decarbonisation identity" : stranded assets in the power generation sector / Alexander Pfeiffer -- Stranded assets : an...
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