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mechanisms that deter pollution and protect the environment and the public from threats posed by the pollution of the environment … ensure that the environment is in an acceptable state. This principle now plays an important role in both national as well as …
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India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the world's largest public works program, has been demonstrated to have beneficial impacts on a wide range of outcomes, but its effects on agricultural productivity have been relatively understudied (Sukhtankar, 2017). We test whether...
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In the Gangetic flood plain of West Bengal, wetlands are used for multiple purposes, and have significant role in the livelihoods of the local people. Over the years, these Multiple Use Systems (MUSs) are getting converted to single use systems due to economic and social pressure from dominant...
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Little is known about the effectiveness of information strategies on energy conservation in developing countries. In this study, we conduct a field experiment in an apartment complex in India to test how information about electricity usage impacts the electricity consumption of urban middle...
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controlled economic environment that was loosened slightly in the mid-1980s. The most important and critical segments of this … reform were trade and foreign investment. India has felt the impact of globalization through increased prosperity, partly …. Scholarly work on trade, FDI, and the environment in India with rich theoretical insight and solid empirical evidence is scarce …
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Climate change is an emerging challenge to developing economy like India however it also creates opportunity to grow through climate friendly goods production and new direction of trade. This paper focuses India's potential export trade in climate friendly goods. The estimated gravity model is...
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Mountainous areas are at the forefront of climate change. This working paper presents approaches to strengthening the resilience of human and natural systems in mountainous areas against the impacts of climate change. Chapter 1 provides an overview of climate-related hazards to ecosystems and...
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struggled to raise awareness of the persistent degradation of their environment. I discuss the current state of CSR, Bhopal …
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Many studies have revealed the negative effects of air pollution on respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, pregnancy outcomes, and neurocognitive diseases. In developing countries, notably in South Asia, both ambient air pollution (AAP) and household air pollution (HAP) cost millions of...
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