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China’s emerging standing in the world demands a major rethinking of its diplomatic strategies. Given its population …. Tensions have been seen in areas such as transboundary air pollution, cross-border water resources management and resources …
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This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...
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We couple a spatially homogeneous energy balance climate model with an economic growth model which incorporates two potential policies against climate change: mitigation, which is the traditional policy, and geoengineering. We analyze the optimal policy mix of geoengineering and mitigation in...
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We study a dynamic game of climate policy design in terms of emissions and solar radiation management (SRM) involving two heterogeneous regions or countries. Countries emit greenhouse gasses (GHGs), and can block incoming radiation by unilateral SRM activities, thus reducing global temperature....
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Water resources are facing several stresses in terms of quantity and quality. These pressures are closely related to …, pollutant emissions, and water /wastewater treatment, among others. Considering the critical role that water plays for … agricultural production, any shock in water availability will have great implications for agricultural production, and through …
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China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China’s efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety...
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Climate change mitigation can be achieved, according to many, by means of Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Tropics (REDD). Within the climate change policy debate we thus find discussions on how to reduce GHG emissions by designing appropriate REDD programmes...
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Water resources are unevenly spread in China. Especially the basins of the Yellow, Hui and Hai rivers in the North are … rather dry. To increase the supply of water in these basins, the South-to-North Water Transfer project (SNWT) was launched … rest of the world. We contrast three alternative groups of scenarios. All are directly concerned with the South …
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interact at the watershed level. By integrating an ecosystem approach into the management of water-related services, urban …
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of risk maps. In this paper, results from a pilot study in the Polesine area (Po river basin) are presented, where four …
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