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Payments for environmental services (PES) are a promising mechanism for conservation. PES could either provide additional funding for protected areas, pay land users to conserve biodiversity outside protected areas, or both. For PES to work, it requires a secure long-term source of financing....
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In this paper, we use data from Guatemala to map areas that are important for the provision of indirect ecosystem services—services whose benefits are enjoyed at some distance from the ecosystem that provides them, such as watershed services (enjoyed downstream) or biodiversity conservation...
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physician–patient interactions. Our results suggest that antibiotics abuse in China is not driven by patients actively demanding …
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serious problem in China. The full development and utilization of renewable energy is the key and effective way for solving … the CO2 emissions problem. This paper reviews the rural energy consumption level and structure in China. Then, this paper … that if full development and utilization of renewable energy is achieved, on the basis of energy data in 2008, China …
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China and the United States of America (US) are developing renewable energy concurrently. In this paper, we seek the …
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utilization among older people in two provinces of China – Zhejiang and Gansu. The data comes from the pilot survey of the China …
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international political pressure on China to appreciate its currency and the Chinese government resisting significant changes in its …
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In 2013, China imported 282 million tons of crude oil with an external dependence of 58.1%, surpassing the USA as the … world’s largest net oil importer. An import source diversification strategy has been adopted by China to ensure oil supply … natural imbalance? This paper analyzes the oil import diversification of China and the USA, as well as the oil production of …
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them switch to better-paying jobs in the formal sector. But evidence of this is limited. China constitutes an important …
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