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Participatory Watershed Management for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in India
Yoganand, Budumuru; Gebremedhin, Tesfa - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2006
International development goals moved beyond increasing food production to include poverty reduction and protecting the environment in a sustainable way. Degradation of natural resources due to exploitation coupled with population pressure in developing countries causing food insecurity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929347
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Социально-эколого-экономическая оценка эффективности существующей схемы обращения с твердыми бытовыми отходами Санкт-Петербурга...
Shcherbakova, Nadezda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper we consider the existing scheme of communal solid waste handling in St. Petersburg. We assess the efficiency of the scheme by social, ecological and economic criteria. The results of this assessment allow us to conclude that all stages of communal solid waste handling in the city...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258513
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Understanding China's Urban Pollution Dynamics
Zheng, Siqi; Kahn, Matthew E. - In: Journal of Economic Literature 51 (2013) 3, pp. 731-72
China's ongoing urban economic growth has sharply increased the population's per capita income, lowered the count of people living below the poverty line, and caused major environmental problems. We survey the growing literature investigating the causes and consequences of China's urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696075
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Social-ecological-economic efficiency assessment of the existing scheme of communal solid waste handling in St. Petersburg
Shcherbakova, Nadezda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper we consider the existing scheme of communal solid waste handling in St. Petersburg. We assess the efficiency of the scheme by social, ecological and economic criteria. The results of this assessment allow us to conclude that all stages of communal solid waste handling in the city...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114221
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The Interaction between Individuals' Destination Choice and Occupational Choice: A Simultaneous Equation Approach
Christiadi; Cushing, Brian - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2006
International development goals moved beyond increasing food production to include poverty reduction and protecting the environment in a sustainable way. Degradation of natural resources due to exploitation coupled with population pressure in developing countries causing food insecurity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929364
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The Interaction between Individuals' Destination Choice and Occupational Choice: A Simultaneous Equation Approach
Cushing, Christiadi - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2006
International development goals moved beyond increasing food production to include poverty reduction and protecting the environment in a sustainable way. Degradation of natural resources due to exploitation coupled with population pressure in developing countries causing food insecurity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781381
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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276950
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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231018
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Targeting Research for Enhanced Impact on Poverty in Marginal Areas: The Representative Case of the Dry Areas of Syria
La Rovere, Roberto; Aw-Hassan, Aden - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
livelihood strategies, capabilities, and opportunities by applying a Sustainable Livelihoods framework. Livelihoods diversity has … implications on where and how research must be targeted to have impact on poverty. Households less endowed in land and natural … resources and with livelihoods only marginally based on farming have to rely on off-farm income or exit agriculture. Poorest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805140
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Sustainable agriculture practices and livelihoods in pro-poor smallholder farming systems in southern Africa
Makate, Clifton; Makate, Marshall; Mango, Nelson - In: African journal of science, technology, innovation & … 9 (2017) 3, pp. 269-279
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008929