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Seaweed Aquaculture for Food Security, Income Generation and Environmental Health in Tropical Developing Countries

World Bank Group - 2016

To meet carbon emissions targets, more than 30 countries have committed to boosting production of renewable resources from biological materials andconvert them into products such as food, animal feedand bioenergy. In a post-fossil-fuel world, an increasingproportion of chemicals, plastics,...

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Assessing the Environmental Co-Benefits of Climate Change Actions

Hamilton, Kirk - 2010

This internal background paper has been prepared to help inform the 2010 environment strategy with respect to a proposed way forward on use of country systems. The World Bank Group environment strategy is built on three pillars: leveraging natural resources for growth and poverty reduction;...

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The drivers of firms’ compliance to environmental regulations : the case of India

Franco-Bedoya, Sebastian; Mani, Muthukumara S. - 2020

were to scale up their inspections. In this paper, extensive firm-level data from India are used to compare the compliance … with air and water pollution. Finally, the paper examines whether environmental monitoring through inspections leads to …

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Synergies in Child Nutrition : Interactions of Food Security, Health and Environment, and Child Care

Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2016

This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition-food security; adequate caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic environment-on their own and interactively are...

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Food Safety, the Environment, and Trade

Zilberman, David - 2008

In this paper, the authors discuss the ways in which national governments, firms, and individuals respond to policy related to food safety, environmental protection, and trade. These responses must be considered in the development of policy to ensure the best possible outcomes. It accounts for...

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Does pollution hinder urban competitiveness?

Kahn, Matthew E.; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Soppelsa, Maria E. - 2019

This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the … implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those … pollution inhibit urban competitiveness? Second, why is this effect likely to grow in importance over time? Third, why have …

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Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation in the Developing World : An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors

Havlik, Petr - 2015

This paper conducts an integrated assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis uses the partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM to generate scenarios to 2080. The findings show that...

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Increased Productivity and Food Security, Enhanced Resilience and Reduced Carbon Emissions for Sustainable Development : Opportunities and Challenges for a Converging Agenda - Coun...

World Bank - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the challenges and the practical successes that a selected number of countries are experiencing in moving towards 'climate-smart' agriculture while also meeting the food requirements of a growing population, broader economic development and green growth...

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Labor market impacts and responses : the economic consequences of a marine environmental disaster

Hoang Trung Xuan; Duong Trung Le; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen … - 2019

This paper examines the labor market impacts of a large-scale marine environmental crisis caused by toxic chemical contamination in Vietnam's central coast in 2016. Combining labor force surveys with satellite data on fishing-boat detection, the analysis finds negative and heterogeneous impacts...

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Estimation of Climate Change Damage Functions for 140 Regions in the GTAP9 Database

Roson, Roberto - 2016

Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...

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