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City and regional governments as well as development agencies will learn from this report how to develop their own toolbox of instruments and structures for leveraging private finance. What role can private financing play in local economic development? To address this issue, this study draws on...
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catastrophic in their consequences. Therefore, the elaboration of effective risk-management plans, aimed at formulating viable … management of environmental risks - environmental pollution risk and natural catastrophe risk in particular. It discusses the … issue of insurability of such risks, analyses the increasing risk of liability for environmental pollution and the …
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One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …
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Environmental permits have played a major role in improving industry's environmental performance across the last few decades. Because they adopt a precautionary approach during the setting of environmental requirements, permitting strategies have also favoured pollution prevention. However,...
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"Covering pertinent areas of sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) this forward-looking book examines SRI in … investment strategies and philosophies that attempt to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns into … investment decision-making. In turn it provides an in-depth review of a number of different motivations for SRI, including …
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