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Responding to Climate Change: A Proposed Framework for Action
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2000
For the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean to respond effectively to the Climate Change challenge, they need to be able to understand what the impacts of Climate Change may be for each country and the extent of each country's contribution to the problem before they can define and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216170
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Ground Water Pollution and Emerging Environmental Challenges of Industrial Effluent Irrigation : A Case Study of Mettupalayam Taluk, Tamilnadu
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Nelliyat, Prakash - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Industrial disposal of effluents on land and subsequent pollution of groundwater and soil of surrounding farmlands is a … effluents on land, which has limited capacity to assimilate the pollution load, has led to groundwater pollution. Ground water … and/or river water the impact of pollution on livelihood was minimised. Since the local administration is supplying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363651
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Pollution Across Chinese Provinces
Co, Catherine Yap; Kong, Fanying; Lin, Shuanglin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower … industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste … water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365297
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Microempresa: Informe de avances: Volumen 4: N° 2: Enero, 2002 Title: Microenterprise Development Review: Volume 4 : No. 2 : January, 2002
Inter-American Development Bank; Banco Interamericano …; … - 2002
examined are microenterprise growth and environmental protection and a close look at pollution problems in this sector. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674134
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Water and the Millennium Development Goals: Investment Needs in Latin America & the Caribbean
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2005
This study has been carried out with the purpose of assessing the overall investment needs of Latin America and the Caribbean by 2015, based on the assumption of meeting the Millennium Development Goals with regards to improving access to drinking water services and to better sanitation. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010719965
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Leveraging Environment and Climate Change Initiatives for Corporate Excellence
Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam; Kimura, Mari; Isono, Kumiko - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
As an integral part of sustainable development, the impacts from climate change, including increasing water stress, more extreme weather events, the potential for high levels of migration and the disruption of international markets are critical challenges for all Asian countries. With rapid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651613
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Leveraging Environment and Climate Change Initiatives for Corporate Excellence
Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam; Kimura, Mari; Isono, Kumiko - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
As an integral part of sustainable development, the impacts from climate change, including increasing water stress, more extreme weather events, the potential for high levels of migration and the disruption of international markets are critical challenges for all Asian countries. With rapid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651630
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Leveraging Environment and Climate Change Initiatives for Corporate Excellence
Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam; Kimura, Mari; Isono, Kumiko - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
As an integral part of sustainable development, the impacts from climate change, including increasing water stress, more extreme weather events, the potential for high levels of migration and the disruption of international markets are critical challenges for all Asian countries. With rapid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651644
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Facing the Challenges of Sustainable Development: The IDB and the Environment: 1992-2002
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2002
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) welcomes the opportunity that the World Summit on Sustainable Development offers the development community to reflect on regional trends and the major challenges facing our member countries in environmental sustainability. The IDB prepared this document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216183
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Sustainable Development Framework for Local Governance
Cabalfin, Michael R.; Yap, Josef T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty reduction, human development, sustainable development, and more recently to institutional development. There has also been a fresh look at industrial policy and the role of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363294