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Making Grasslands Sustainable in Mongolia: Adapting to Climate and Environmental Change

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

Climate change threatens grassland ecosystems and herders’ livelihoods in Mongolia. Herders depend on pasture and water resources for their livestock, and are thus among the most vulnerable groups to climate change impacts. However, although climate change impacts on grassland ecosystems are...

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Country Safeguard Systems Regional Workshop Proceedings Towards Common Approaches and Better Results

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012

Australian Agency for International Development, Japan International Cooperation Agency, and the World Bank confirmed their …

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Oil Palm Boom and Land-Use Dynamics in Indonesia: The Role of Policies and Socioeconomic Factors

Gatto, Marcel; Wollni, Meike; Qaim, Matin - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

major driver of deforestation. Much of the forest in Jambi was cleared more than 20 years ago, and rubber was an established … activities, so indirect effects on deforestation are likely. The government’s transmigration program of the 1980s and 1990s was …

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Democratic Institutions and Environmental Quality: Effects and Transmission Channels

Romuald, Kinda Somlanare - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

This paper aims at analysing the effect of democratic institutions on environmental quality (carbon dioxide per capita, sulfure dioxide per capita) and at identifying potential channel transmissions. We use panel data from 1960 to 2008 in 122 developing and developed countries and modern...

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Same Energy, More power: Accelerating Energy Efficiency in Asia

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

Energy efficiency is often defined as delivered energy service per unit of energy supplied into a system. Supply-side energy efficiency refers to decreasing energy losses in the supply chain, for improved performance in the production and delivery of electricity and heat. Demandside energy...

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Viet Nam: Environment and Climate Change Assessment

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

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is preparing sector assessments, thematic papers, strategies, and road maps to help align future ADB support with the needs and strategies of developing member countries and other development partners. A thematic paper is a working document that addresses a...

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Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions by means of Tradable Emissions Permits and the Implications for Irish Farmers

Breen, James P. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

The increasing concern over climate change has led to a number of international agreements to control greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture currently accounts for 28 percent of Ireland’s total greenhouse gas emission and therefore has a major role to play in Ireland achieving its emissions...

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Price-induced changes in greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, forestry, and other land use: A spatial panel econometric analysis

Chakir, Raja; De Cara, Stéphane; Vermont, Bruno - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the effects of input and output prices on French GHG emissions from agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) at the NUTS2 level. Reduced-form, random-effect spatial error models are estimated for four emissions categories (nitrogen use,...

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Feeding the cities and greenhouse gas emissions: a new economic geography approach

De Cara, Stéphane; Fournier, Anne; Gaigné, Carl - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

’Buying local food’ is sometimes advocated as a means of reducing the ’carbon footprint’ of food products. This statement overlooks the trade-off between inter- and intra-regional food transportation. We investigate this issue by using an m-region, new economic geography model. The...

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Volatile World Milk Prices and Its Affect to National Market- Case of Serbian Milk Market

Popović, Rade; Radovanov, Boris; Jeremić, Marija - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2013

International milk market is created by 7% of world production volume. Volatile world milk prices in recent 6 years …. First, on macro level how world milk price affects national markets in case of New Zealand as leading world exporter …. Results improved understanding how world milk price influence milk price in Serbia and how price shocks are transmitted …

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