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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
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Analyzing Rebound Effects
Schettkat, Ronald - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2009
Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for sustainable development, are they the solution to environmental problems, or will second round effects –so-called rebound effects- compensate or even overcompensate potential savings, will they fire back? The answer to...
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Gross Capital Formation and GDP growth in Indian Agriculture Sector
marimuthu, sivakumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Nevertheless the share of agriculture sector in the GDP has declined in the recent past; agriculture is the backbone … industries also depend upon agriculture for their raw materials. Any developmental activity needs investment; like that GDP … effectiveness or yield of any investment. In this perspective, the Gross Capital Formation (GCF) and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114004
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The analysis of the main indicators evolution of social and economic development in the Arab republic of Syria, period 1960-2014
Al Mahammad, Jaghayef; Necula, Raluca; Necula, Diana - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 47-55). 2016
The paper's aim is a retrospective analysis of the evolution of the main indicators of social and economic development from Syria by highlighting the degree of development of the country before the policy crisis in 2011. An attempt was also the surprise of external and internal influences in the...
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The role of agriculture in economic growth : a comparison of mediterranean and northern views in Europe
Apostolidou, Ioanna; Kontogeorgos, Achilleas; … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 7 (2014) 3, pp. 81-102
The main objective of this paper is to identify the causal relationship that exists between agricultural value added per worker and Gross Domestic Product per capita in Europe. More specifically, the role of agriculture in economic growth is examined with special emphasis to the differences and...
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Climate Impacts in Europe - The JRC PESETA II Project
Ciscar, Juan-Carlos; Feyen, Luc; Soria, Antonio; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
GDP. The geographical distribution of the climate damages is very asymmetric with a clear bias towards the southern … (€120 billion). Moving to a 2°C world would reduce annual climate damages by €60 billion, to €120 billion (1.2% of GDP). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111444
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Does agricultural value added induce environmental degradation? : empirical evidence from an agrarian country
Agboola, Mary Oluwatoyin; Bekun, Festus Victor - 2019
This study empirically investigates the agriculture-induced environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in an agrarian framework. Annual time series data from 1981−2014 was employed using Augmented Dickey−Fuller and the Phillips−Perron (PP) unit root test complemented by the Zivot and...
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Mali - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development : a study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Coulibaly, Ousmane - 2021
Mali is a Sub-Saharan African country with 19.1 million people. Almost half of this population lives in poverty, due to the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource management especially land and water together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421112
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Land, climate, energy, agriculture and development in the Sahel : synthesis paper of case studies under the Sudano-Sahelian initiative for regional development, jobs, and food secu...
Mirzabaev, Alisher; Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Sylla, … - 2021
This paper synthesizes a set of national case studies conducted in the Sahelian countries during 2019- 2020 as a collaboration between national universities and research institutes, and the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, with contributions from the Agrhymet Regional...
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Public Environmental Impact Assessment in Planning Process of the Near-Shore Wind Power Farms in Estonia
Lindroos, Karin - 2016
This paper examines the nature and opportunities of public participation in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) and planning processes in the context of massive expansion of near-shore wind power farms within the next decade in Estonia. The establishment of new wind farms has aroused...
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