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Carbon sequestration options in the international climate regime
Jung, Martina - 2005
The present thesis deals with carbon sequestration options in the Kyoto Protocol, namely carbon sequestration in the terrestrial biosphere and carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS). Chapter 2 investigates the negotiation process on Land use, Land-use change and Forestry (LULUCF) under the...
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The effect of farmland preservation programs on farmland prices.
Nickerson, C.J.; Lynch, L. - 2001
Government agencies in urbanizing areas are increasingly utilizing purchase and transfer of development rights programs to preserve farmland and protect local farm economies. This article tests the effect of development restrictions imposed by permanent easement sales on farmland sales prices,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429460
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Carbon mitigation potential and costs of forestry options in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and Tanzania
Sathaye, J.; Makundi, W.; Andrasko, K.; Boer, R.; … - 2009
This paper summarizes studies of carbon (C) mitigation potential and costs of about 40 forestry options in seven developing countries. Each study uses the same methodological approach - Comprehensive Mitigation Assessment Process (COMAP) - to estimate the above parameters between 2000 and 2030....
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Cointegration Analysis on the Relation between Urbanization and Economic Growth in China
LIU, Ai ying; YAO, Li fen; LI, Qing chen - 2011
empirical research on the relation between urbanization and GDP in China, and also implements a comparative analysis to the … relation between three industries and degree of urbanization, the related coeffecient is 0.97, 0.95, 0.97, 0.97. And the result … shows a long-term balance between these two factors, and the promoting effect to tertiary industry by urbanization is more …
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Three Essays on China's Economic Reform
Li, Lixing - 2008
the process of China's enterprise reform. The other two essays focus on the upgrading of counties to cities in China …
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The significance and performance of infrastructure in China
Newell, Graeme; Chau, K. W.; Wong, Siu Kei - 2009
The significant economic growth and urbanisation of China in recent years has seen increased importance given to … infrastructure development in China; this includes airports, toll roads, communications, ports, power plants and water. The purpose … of this paper is to assess the significance and investment performance of infrastructure in China, the linkages to …
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Gross National Happiness: Bhutan's Vision of Development and its Challenges
Priesner, Stefan - 1999
This paper consists of two parts, which are conceptually only loosely interconnected. Proceeding from an impressionistic comparison of Bhutanese development in the late 1950s and in the late 1990s, Part I of this essay explores the missing link, the question of why development has taken the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468663
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O PROCESSO DE TOMADA DE DECISÃO SOB O VIÉS DA ECOSSOCIOECONOMIA DAS ORGANIZAÇÕES: O CASO DE UMA COOPERATIVA CATARINENSE DE ARTESÃOS
Felski, Henrique; Sampaio, Carlos Alberto Cioce; … - 2010
The objective of this work is to analyze the Arte Rio Cooperative’s decision making process to assess how far it comprehends itsmembers’ cooperative production system, i.e. if there is a logic governing the process that is different from utilitarian economics. Itwas inferred that the logic...
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS: A WINNING COMBINATION Generating a World’s View based on Buckley and Casson and Hirschman’s Books
Agmon, Tamir - 2004
Much of the discussion in economics is concerned with growth. Economic growth can be discussed and measured in terms of a national state. It can be also discussed and measured in terms of a corporation, (often using the term value rather than growth). Development Economics is concerned with...
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Стратегии развития регионовресурсно-сырьевой специализации
Робинсон, Б.В.; Robinson, Boris V. - 2010
Рассмотрены природно-ресурсные предпосылки формирования стратегий развития российскихрегионов сырьевой специализации. Представлены три вида моделей...
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