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Foreign Direct Investment, Regional Geographical and Market Conditions, and Regional Development: A Panel Study on China

Wen, Mei - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2005

development through quantifying regional marketization level. It is found that FDI inflow generates a demonstration effect in …

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Splitting the Difference in Global Climate Finance: Are Fragmentation and Legitimacy Mutually Exclusive?

Pickering, Jonathan; Jotzo, Frank; Wood, Peter John - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

governance. However, by allowing for a fragmented approach to mobilizing funds, current multilateral commitments raise further … justification for the degree of fragmentation compatible with achieving legitimacy. These insights may inform future evaluation of … legitimacy requirements in other spheres of environmental governance. …

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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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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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Public values for improved water security for domestic and environmental use

Windle, Jill; Rolfe, John; Brouwer, Roy - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

Metrics for evaluating environmental trade-offs can be developed with varying levels of consistency across case study sites. A key issue is whether standard evaluation experiments can be conducted over multiple sites, or whether experiments have to be tailored to each case study application. To...

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China's Energy Reform and Climate Policy: The Ideas Motivating Change

Boyd, Olivia - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

China has embarked on an ambitious and unprecedented programme of energy reform and climate change mitigation. Yet the motivations for this important shift remain unclear. This paper surveys key central government documents and articles by China's leading energy academics to investigate the...

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Dietary Transition in India: An Analysis Based on NSS Data for 1993 and 2004

Kaicker, Nidhi; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

Our study examines changes in diets over the period 1993-2004. Diets have shifted away from cereals towards higher consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, reduced form demand relations are estimated for nine food commodities. Significant own and...

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Location differences in communities’ preferences for environmental improvements in selected NSW catchments: A Choice Modelling approach

Mazur, Kasia; Bennett, Jeffrey W. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

To elicit household willingness to pay (WTP) for improvements in environmental quality in three NSW catchments (Lachlan, Namoi and Hawkesbury-Nepean), a choice modelling (CM) study was conducted. This report presents results of research designed to investigate variations in WTP across different...

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