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Viet Nam: Environment and Climate Change Assessment

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

strategies (CPSs). This environment and climate change thematic paper highlights development issues, needs, and strategic …

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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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Myanmar: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Environment Initial Sector Assessment, Strategy and Roadmap

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

addressing priority needs for the agriculture, natural resources, and environment sector and identifies possible preliminary … on developing a conducive environment for the sector’s growth. …

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Estimating the Recreation Use Values of National Parks

Bennett, Jeff - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1996

A comprehensive application of the travel cost method (TCM) to the estimation of the recreation use values of Dorrigo and Gibraltar Range National Parks is outlined. As well as providing value estimates that are useful for the development of park acquisition and management policy, the...

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Modelling future urban and rural water requirements in a CGE framework

Wittwer, Glyn - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

Water is increasingly being treated as a tradable commodity. This paper describes our efforts to include water accounts in a multi-regional CGE model. In order to understand the conditions under which water trade might occur, we need to add a number of features to the model and scenarios. These...

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A framework to select policy tools for dryland salinity

Pannell, David J.; Ridley, Anna M. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

Appropriate management and policy responses for dryland salinity vary depending on biophysical and socio-economic conditions, and on the resources in question (water resources, biodiversity, infrastructure, agricultural land, salt-affected land). In this paper we present a framework for...

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Permits, Auctions and Output

Stoneham, Gary; Eigenraam, Mark; Duke, Charlotte; … - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2001

provide pollution-offset activities, in one ‘environment economy’. We use the model to demonstrate the societal benefits of …

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Private Sector Conservation Enterprises in Australia

Usher, Georgina; Bennett, Jeffrey W. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005

If markets for nature conservation services are to ensure an efficient supply, property rights need to be well defined, readily defended and tradeable. However, some of these services have ill defined property rights that are costly, if at all possible to defend. This limits the incentives for...

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Third ASEAN Chief Justices’ Roundtable on Environment: ASEAN’s Environmental Challenges and Legal Responses. The Proceedings

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

convened in Bangkok, Thailand for their third roundtable on environment with the theme “ASEAN’s Environmental Challenges and … implementation of “A Common Vision on Environment for ASEAN Judiciaries” (the “Jakarta Common Vision”), such as by establishing … National Working Groups on Environment and an ASEAN Judiciaries Working Group on Environment, and prioritizing the attendance …

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On the Economics of Precision Agriculture: Technical, Informational and Environmental Aspects

Anvec, Tihomir; Whelan, Brett; McBratney, Alex - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2004

The paper presents an integrated framework of biophysical and economic modelling as a novel approach towards precision agriculture research. A theoretical economic model determining the optimal number of precision agriculture management units within a given field of land is presented. The model...

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