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Vincent, Jeffrey R. - 2017

"Ecosystem services" has become a catch-phrase for the complex connections between the natural environment and human … near term. This perception can make policymakers reluctant to support environmental protection. Where the environment is a …

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Natural Capital, Ecological Scarcity and Rural Poverty

Barbier, Edward B. - 2017

Much of the rural poor -- who are growing in number -- are concentrated in ecologically fragile and remote areas. The key ecological scarcity problem facing such poor households is a vicious cycle of declining livelihoods, increased ecological degradation and loss of resource commons, and...

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Diet Quality, Child Health, and Food Policies in Developing Countries

Bhargava, Alok - 2017

future supply of skilled labor and economic growth. Evidence on these issues from countries such as Bangladesh, India, Kenya …

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To What Extent are Bangladesh's Recent Gains in Poverty Reduction Different from the Past?

Kotikula, Aphichoke - 2017

The poor in Bangladesh are more likely to belong to households with a larger number of dependents and lower education … two rounds of the Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure Survey to decompose the micro-determinants of poverty …

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Cyclonic Storm Landfalls in Bangladesh, West Bengal and Odisha, 1877-2016 : A Spatiotemporal Analysis

Bandyopadhyay, Sunando - 2018

Recurrent cyclonic storms in the Bay of Bengal inflict massive losses on the coastal regions of Bangladesh and India … risks. This paper constructs a georeferenced panel database that can be used to obtain such information for Bangladesh, West …

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Multi-Hazard Groundwater Risks to the Drinking Water Supply in Bangladesh : Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Shamsudduha, Mohammad - 2019

Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found … throughout Bangladesh but its quality (that is, arsenic and salinity contamination) and quantity (that is, water storage … at the national scale for Bangladesh that combine information on arsenic, salinity, and water storage, using geospatial …

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Tools for Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Green Growth : The U.S. And Mexico

Harrington, Winston - 2017

This paper examines the processes used in the United States and Mexico to assess the economic costs and benefits of environmental improvement, the kinds of information obtained from these procedures, and the additional knowledge that is needed about both elements to improve understanding of the...

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The Role of Technological Change in Green Growth

Popp, David - 2017

By reducing the costs of environmental protection, technological change is important for promoting green growth. This entails both the creation of new technologies and more widespread deployment of existing green technologies. This paper reviews the literature on environmentally friendly...

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From Growth to Green Growth -- a Framework

Hallegatte, S. - 2017

Green growth is about making growth processes resource-efficient, cleaner and more resilient without necessarily slowing them. This paper aims at clarifying these concepts in an analytical framework and at proposing foundations for green growth. The green growth approach proposed here is based...

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Stakeholder Dialogue as an Institutional Strategy for Sustainable Development in China : The Case of Community Environmental Roundtables

Wang, Hua - 2017

Stakeholder dialogue, as an alternative institutional strategy for environmentally and socially sustainable development, has received little attention from researchers and practitioners in developing countries such as China, even though the dialogue strategy can potentially lead public...

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