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This report is a summary of research work coordinated by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) China in 2003-2005, to prepare … Implementation Guidelines for Poverty and Environment Work (IGPEW) in China. This report describes the research in two provinces …
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"Since the early 1980s, China has begun gradually integrating with the global system. In doing so the country has moved … every corner of Chinese life and no organization has been left untouched. Yet industrial organization in China-especially in … in China within the context of urban development and examines the interplay of broad reform strategy with local …
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different stages of development from a geographic approach in the case of China. It aims at offering empirical supports on (1 …
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"Global climate change is occurring at an accelerating pace, and the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are forcing climate change continue to increase. Given the present pace of international actions, it seems unlikely that atmospheric composition can be stabilized at a level that will...
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and export activity in water and toxic pollution-intensive sectors compared with the less pollution-intensive sectors. The … traditional sectors and toward pollution-intensive manufacturing (especially leather and textiles). The paper also highlights the …
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"In a recent survey of 820 Boro (winter rice), potato, bean, eggplant, cabbage, sugarcane, and mango farmers in Bangladesh, over 47 percent of farmers were found to be overusing pesticides. With only 4 percent of farmers formally trained in pesticide use or handling, and over 87 percent openly...
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"New research on urban air pollution casts doubt on the conventional view of the relationship between economic growth … and environmental quality. This view holds that pollution automatically increases until societies reach middle … show in this paper, the empirical relationship between pollution and income becomes much weaker when measures of governance …
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