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Boosting African cities' resilience to climate change : The role of green spaces
Anderson, Brilé. - 2022
spaces can boost the resilience of cities to heat waves, floods, landslides, and even coastal erosion, in addition, to … green spaces, and second, explore the potential of green spaces to boost the resilience and sustainability of cities in the … outdoor air pollution is rising. The potential for green spaces to enhance resilience to climate events, like heat waves …
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A Modelling Framework for Addressing the Synergies Between Global Conventions Through Land Use Changes : Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity Conservation, Prevention of Land Degrada...
Ponce-Hernandez, Raul - 2015
This paper proposed a methodological framework for the assessment of carbon stocks and the development and identification of land use, land use change and land management scenarios, whereby enhancing carbon sequestration synergistically increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation...
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A low GHG development pathway design framework for agriculture, forestry and land use
Svensson, Johannes; Waisman, Henri; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; … - In: Energy strategy reviews 37 (2021), pp. 1-14
Agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) represent 22% of global greenhouse gas emissions. To meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement, the AFOLU sector greenhouse gases must be dramatically reduced and eventually transformed to net negative CO2e within this century. The...
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Framework for Assessing Environmental Management in Agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2012
This paper incorporates interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and suggests a holistic framework for assessing the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a specific system of social order regulating behaviour and...
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Sustained Development of Land Resources : A Policy Model for Sudan
Abdelgalil, Eisa - 2015
The paper develops a model that shares common features with the computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. It is used to address two questions. First, what are the future prospects of a green gross domestic product (GDP), should we be concerned for resource degradation or not, and to what...
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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...
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Chapter 74. The Place of Nature in Economic Development
Dasgupta, Partha - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4977-5046). 2010
In this chapter both theory and empirics are used to show that our picture of the processes of economic development changes radically when nature is introduced as a capital asset. Particular features of institutions that fashion societies' use of the natural-resource base are identified and...
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Lifestyle choices and societal behavior changes as local climate strategy
Mohanty, Brahmanand; Scherfler, Martin; Devatha, Vikram - 2012
The Asia-Pacific region is witnessing rapid economic growth. Along with rising incomes, the lifestyles of the large middle class are moving quickly towards a buy-and-discard consumer model that involves carbon-intensive products and services. These increase dependency on the Earth's finite...
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Integrating the value of natural capital in evidence-based policy making
Banerjee, Onil; Vargas, Renato; Cicowiez, Martín - 2020
This paper describes how Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) can be integrated into economy wide analytical frameworks to enhance evidence based decision making. Examples from applications of the Integrated Environmental Economic Modelling (IEEM) Platform show how explicitly accounting for the...
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Green growth and equity in the context of climate change: Some considerations
Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Someshwar, Shiv - 2012
Green growth entails several different kinds of processes: conversion to low-carbon energy, climate resilience, and … implementing green growth, focusing on building climate resilience and responding to climate shocks are discussed. In conclusion …
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