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As Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a new technology, there had been no legal framework regulating CCS projects or addressing its potential risks on either an international or a European or national level. Accordingly, significant changes at all governance levels have taken place within the...
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The recognition of two important concepts in science, namely the assimilative capacity of nature and the entropy of law of thermodynamics enables the formulation of an alternative framework for factor-utilization in economics. This framework, which includes environmental capital (KN) as a...
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Unscathed agrobiodiversity remaining in-situ today is found on the small-scale farms and homestead gardens of poorer and developing countries (Brookfield, 2001). The indigenous traditional farming of Muthuvan tribe as the case of Finger millet or Ragi (Eleusine coracana), a minor millet...
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Traditional accounting has lost its instrumental ability of entailing the informational dimensions that are requested in the process of comprehending the phenomenon of identifying and reporting entity's activity in the context of sustainable development. We would venture to suggest that the...
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The issue of assessment of absolute and comparative sustainability of major farming structures is among the most topical for researchers, farmers, investors, administrators, politicians, interests groups and public at large. Despite that practically there are no assessments on sustainability...
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Economic growth since the industrial era has reduced poverty and increased societies' quality of life, but it also has implied negative environmental effects. There is an urgent need to correct this structural unbalance. The open issue is whether this correction implies sacrificing the...
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The issue of assessment sustainability of agricultural farms as a whole and of different type is among the most topical for researchers, farmers, investors, administrators, politicians, interests groups and public at large. Despite that practically there are no assessments on sustainability...
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This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response and land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of forest cover loss on increased malarial incidence. The...
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