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Climate Sensitivity of Indian Agriculture Do Spatial Effects Matter?
Kumar, K S Kavi - eSocialSciences - 2010
Climate change impact studies on agriculture can be broadly divided into those that employ agro-economic approaches and … Indian agriculture. Using panel data over a twenty year period and on 271 districts, we estimate the impact of climate change …
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Mitigating Climate Change Through Agriculture
Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2011
Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food security and climate change. Agriculture plays a … significant role in both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing issue for agriculture and food security in … the next decades. At the same time, agriculture is part of the solution in mitigating climate change: by both reducing and …
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Initiatives of NGOs in Kutch Region
Satija, Kalpana C - eSocialSciences - 2009
Many NGOs occupy a space between public and private sector organisations, and the papers in this special issue demonstrate that the mechanisms required for effective accountability by these NGOs are usually be different to mechanisms suited to discharging the accountability duties of other forms...
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The New Great Walls: A New Guide to China's Overseas Dam Industry, Second Edition
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2013
Chinese hydropower companies and banks are now the largest dam builders in the world. Chinese banks have stepped in to fill the gap left by traditional dam funders such as the World Bank. The Chinese government sees its hydropower companies’ global ambitions as playing a...
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Three Gorges Dam: A Model of the Past
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2012
The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the world’s largest and most controversial hydropower project. The 600 kilometer-long reservoir has displaced 1.3 million people and is wreaking havoc with the environment. The reservoir reached its final height in 2010, but many of its impacts...
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GNH, EI and the Well-Being of Nations: Lessons for Public Policy Makers, with Specific Reference to the Happiness Dividend of Tourism
Vorster, Shaun - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper has two objectives: firstly, to conceptually explore the theoretical underpinnings of GNH and how it relates to societal EI and, secondly, to evaluate within this theoretical context the happiness dividend of the tourism economy, with specific reference to ethics, the labour market...
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The Costs of Achieving the Millennium Development Goals through Adopting Organic Agriculture
Markandya, Anil; Setboonsarng, Sununtar; Hui, Qiao Yu; … - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the …:[http://www.adbi.org/files/2010.02.09.wp193.cost.mdg.organic.agriculture.pdf]. …
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India’s Low Carbon Inclusive Growth Strategy
Sankar, U. - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper reviews India.s low-carbon high growth inclusive policy initiatives, comments on their financial sustainability and environmental sustainability and suggests desirable changes. The focus is on reduction in CO2 emissions. [WORKING PAPER 56/2010]....
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Environmental Sustainability and Strategic Stakeholder Management: The Coca-Cola Company in Turkey and Water Management
Cinarli, Inci; Sancar, Gaye Asli - eSocialSciences - 2012
The future of almost any business depends on the sustainability of water resources. One of the global corporations using high amount of water during its production process and also a bottled water manufacturer is TCCC (The Coca-Cola Company). This paper analyze TCCC's perspectives on "economics"...
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Natural Resource Conservation, Use and Sustainability in Drylands
Alagh, Yoginder - eSocialSciences - 2007
This keynote address of the conference on Natural Resource Conservation Use and Sustainability in Drylands, focuses mainly on some new concepts of resource assessments in dry areas, some recent debates on organizational ideas on communities and their institutions; larger issues to place the...
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