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In the rural economy land is the site of production. Our villagers live and work with close relationship with nature; they love and adore nature. Intensification of resource use and diversification of occupation (even if we call it as technological advancement) pose serious challenges to balanced...
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This paper aims to identify analytically potential impacts on Argentinean international trade as a consequence of foreign environmental legislation emerging, which will impose progressive restrictions on exports. The results suggest a short-term negative impact on the tradable sectors of...
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Multifactor productivity is a comprehensive measure of productivity where the underlying production function accounts for multiple factor inputs, traditionally labour and produced capital. While single-factor productivity is intuitively simple, such measure offers a biased picture of the economy...
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This paper reviews the arguments for and the implications of employing Declining Discount Rates (DDRs) in CBA and in the analysis of economic growth and sustainability. We show that there exist several growth models in which a relationship has been found between the long-run equilibrium under...
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with impacts far beyond just the environment and implications on national security and development. As the world continues … sustainable development. Today, a number of mainstream population and environment groups are claiming that population growth is a … high. This paper examines several outstanding issues on the interface between population and environment. Significantly …
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and several related factors are responsible for the rapid degradation of the environment. Environmental problems have … provisions have been made for the knowledge of environment and its conservation. In the country many centres are providing …. India is an active member of International Organizations concerning environment. Several programmes are going on under UNEP …
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This paper reviews the arguments for and the implications of employing Declining Discount Rates (DDRs) in CBA and in the analysis of economic growth and sustainability. We show that there exist several growth models in which a relationship has been found between the long-run equilibrium under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112834
Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for sustainable development, are they the solution to environmental problems, or will second round effects –so-called rebound effects- compensate or even overcompensate potential savings, will they fire back? The answer to...
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Using ideas from complexity theory and its application in the areas of ecology, biology, chemistry and medicine this paper shows how the paradigm of complexity is able to offer the conceptual frame in which they can project, evaluate and coordinate processes specific to the living world. Because...
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The Chinese government has adopted a rebalancing strategy since 2011, shifting from an investment- to consumption-oriented growth model. An aim of this reform is for a “greener” development mode, but relevant empirical evidence is slim. In this study, we propose an innovative methodology to...
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