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Although climate change is expected to have major consequences that affect the global environment in its broadest sense, one of the earliest and most direct impacts will be on Earth's fresh water systems. While some regions will experience increased precipitation, others will suffer serious...
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Has the well-known fragmentation between Human Rights and Water and Investment Law been exacerbated by the protection offered to foreign investors under Peru's recently signed Regional Trade Agreements and under WTO rules, both enforceable under their specific dispute settlement procedures? This...
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international trade system, trade in water-related services as well as the transfer of innovation and technologies can efficiently …
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Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal distribution of resources, competition among its uses, ecosystems conservation, climate-related disasters and risks and several other aspects. The water security approach manages such...
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Poor persons in poor countries are greatly exposed to the risk of adverse shocks, many of international origin, which can create long-lasting damage to individual well-being. There is a strong moral and prudential case for taking measures which reduce the extent to which such shocks arise and...
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profound interest in understanding and evaluating the impact of this legislation on innovation and competition. Scholars and … — the complete landscape within which innovation and competition in biological medicines take place — is profoundly … framework. It argues that unlike the drug framework, the framework for competition and innovation in biologics is variable and …
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We examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism...
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