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Failed Mechanism: How the CDM is Subsidizing Hydro Developers and Harming the Kyoto Protocol
Haya, Barbara - eSocialSciences - 2012
Five years age, International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be used to encourage construction of otherwise uneconomic large hydropower projects, taking limited funds away...
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Why Big Dams are the Wrong Response to Climate Change
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2011
International Rivers strongly supports policy measures that can promote a rapid expansion of renewable energy sources. But these measures need to be based on a holistic understanding of sustainability. Large hydropower projects are not a renewable source of energy, can produce significant...
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Water in India: Situation and Prospects
Prakash, Anjal; Sharma, Medhavi; Chourey, Jayati - eSocialSciences - 2013
This report attempts to provide a comprehensive analysis of the state of water resource development and management in India, based on secondary information. It maps the current challenges and suggests feasible alternatives amidst increasing water scarcity and disenfranchisement of resource bases...
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Public Opposition Halts Violation of Environmental Norms: Case of APSEZ, Gujarat
Aggarwal, Yogi - eSocialSciences - 2014
All too often blinded by the dazzle of development people and planners do not see the trail of destruction that accompanies new initiatives. It need not be that way. As the case of Adani Ports and SEZ in Mundra, Gujarat shows it is possible for a vigilant environmental movement backing popular...
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Pollution Across Chinese Provinces
Co, Catherine Yap; Kong, Fanying; Lin, Shuanglin - eSocialSciences - 2008
The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is revisited using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces.
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Fertilizing Nature: A Tragedy of Excess in the Commons
Good, Allen G; Beatty, Perrin H - eSocialSciences - 2011
nitrogen pollution to our ecosphere. The atmosphere is polluted by N2O and NOx gases that directly and indirectly increase …
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Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
Hanna, Rema; Greenstone, Michael - eSocialSciences - 2011
Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and … air pollution regulations were effective at reducing ambient concentrations of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and … nitrogen dioxide. The most successful air pollution regulation is associated with a modest and statistically insignificant …
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Toxicity and Profitability of Rice Cultivation under Waste- Water Irrigation: The Case of the East Calcutta Wetlands
Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Gupta, Gautam - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper reports the results of an empirical study on the profitability of rice cultivation in the East Calcutta Wetlands region where untreated sewage water from the city of Calcutta, India, is used for the purpose of irrigation during the winter/summer crop. [Working Paper, No 62 - 11]....
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Integrating Urban Datasets: The Path to Effective Socio-Economic Planning in Urban Pakistan
Khan, Sohaib; Aslam, Amal; Zubair, Maria; Rehan, Ali - eSocialSciences - 2012
Effective urban policy making and implementation in Pakistan is impeded by the problem of integrating data containing incompatible spatial references. There is great heterogeneity across spatial units being used by different urban government departments for data collection and reporting in...
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The Yamuna: Need for Inclusive Debate
Iyer, Ramaswamy R. - eSocialSciences - 2009
The prevailing attitude is that ‘development’ is important, and that if people have to be pushed around for this, so be it. This a response to the views expressed by E Sreedharan on the Yamuna, ‘Restrict Yamuna with walls and develop low-lying areas: Metro chief’ (Times...
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