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Rainwater harvesting, alternative to the water supply in Indian urban areas : The case of Ahmedabad in Gujarat
Amiraly, Akil; Prime, Nathalie; Singh, J.P. - HAL - 2004
Water scarcity is a characteristic of north-western states of India, such as Gujarat. Over time, the continuous …
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ON THE COORDINATION OF THE EUROPEAN AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL AND WATER INTERNALIZING POLICIES
Martin, Elsa; Stahn, Hubert - HAL - 2009
The point of departure of this work is the lack of coordination of European environmental internalizing policies. At the national level, while the water authority generally has to internalize the negative externalities of water extraction, the agricultural one aims at encouraging environmentally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794017
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Assessing and ordering investments in polluting fossil-fueled and zero-carbon capital
Lecuyer, Oskar; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien - HAL - 2013
Climate change mitigation requires to replace preexisting carbon-intensive capital with different types of cleaner capital. Coal power and inefficient thermal engines may be phased out by gas power and efficient thermal engines or by renewable power and electric vehicles. We derive the optimal...
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The geography of innovation : challenge to technology policy within regions
Fadairo, Muriel; Massard, Nadine - HAL - 2009
The "Geography of Innovation" is based on the desire to give empirical foundations to the explanations behind the … pronounced spatial polarisation of the innovation activities. It focuses on an attempt to measure the spatial dimension of … survey this empirical literature in order to highlight the main results interesting for the innovation policy. This analysis …
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Why Do Some Bikers Wear a Helmet and Others Don't? Evidence from Delhi, India
Grimm, Michael; Treibich, Carole - HAL - 2013
that drivers tend to compensate between speed and helmet use. The most obvious solution to India's road safety problem and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933815
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Total Factor Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Indian Manufacturing: The Role of Infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology
Mitra, Arup; Sharma, Chandan; Veganzones, Marie-Ange - HAL - 2011
Drawing on a recent dataset of the Indian manufacturing industry for 1994 to 2008, this paper shows for eight sectors that core infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) matter for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and Technical Efficiency (TE).In the analysis, we use a range...
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Decoupling urban transport from GHG emissions in Indian cities--A critical review and perspectives
Li, Jun - HAL - 2011
How to sustain rapid economic and urban growth with minimised detriment to environment is a key challenge for sustainable development and climate change mitigation in developing countries, which face constraints of technical and financial resources scarcity as well as dearth of infrastructure...
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Some Aspects of External Dimensions of Indian Economy in the Age of Globalisation
Dasgupta, Byasdeb - HAL - 2013
through neoliberal globalisation is a ploy of global capitalism to extract super duper surplus from India. Analytically also …
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Social Fragmentation and Public Goods Revisiting the Olson's Effect in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
Bros, Catherine - HAL - 2009
A vast recent literature has stressed social fragmentation's negative impact on the provision of public goods. This is a key issue, given that public goods availability has been reckoned as crucial to economic development, while developing countries' societies often exhibit high degrees of...
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What if energy decoupling of emerging economies were not so spontaneous ? An illustrative example on India
Mathy, Sandrine; Guivarch, Céline - HAL - 2009
. This article focuses on an illustrative example on India. It proposes an alternative reference scenario built with a … diffusion of energy efficiency improvement in India is considerable, but we identify a potential for synergies between …
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