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    Explaining and understanding environmental actions in Chinese agriculture: the case of Yuqiao watershed of Tianjin municipality

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2015
    Most of China’s surface waters are undergoing anthropogenic eutrophication, mainly due to leaching of phosphorus (P) from both sewage and agriculture. This is causing quality deterioration in their scarce water resources. The problem has been acknowledged by Chinese authorities and actions sought implemented, though expected ameliorations are on hold.
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    Norway’s municipal international cooperation - results achieved and lessons learnt

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2015
    Municipal International Cooperation (1997-2014) was a programme involving municipalities in Norway and the Global South. It was managed by the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This report sums up results and identifies lessons to be learnt for a possible future scheme.
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    Water scarcity in Jordan: economic instruments, issues and options

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011
    This paper explores the complexity and implications of water scarcity in Jordan, and the potential use of incentives, economic instruments and regulation to balance demand growth and supply shortages.
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    Creating incentives for more effective wastewater reuse in the Middle East and North Africa

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011
    Systematic water recycling remains rare in many arid and semi-arid countries, for example in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper argues that much of the relative failure to make greater use of reclaimed wastewater in MENA in particular can be linked to incentive problems related to managing the external effects associated with wastewater discharges.
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    Economic analysis on pollution control for textile industry

    Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2011
    Since present research on pollution control for textile printing and dyeing industry is mainly focused on qualitative description up to now, instead of special quantitative analysis, based on the census data of pollution sources, this paper adopts literature collection method and single-factor variance components method for continuous variables to identify the factors influencing cost for pollu
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    Assessing economic impacts of China's water pollution mitigation measures through a dynamic computable general equilibrium analysis

    Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2011
    The price of economic success in China has been the over-exploitation of natural resources and huge impacts on the environment, particularly water resources.
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    Qualitative assessment of USAID/OFDA small scale irrigation programs: Zambia treadle pumps, 2003--2006

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2008
    This report was prepared as part of a program commissioned from FANRPAN by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) in Pretoria, South Africa to assess a treadle pump irrigation program it sponsored in Zambia from April 2003 to June 2004.
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    Evaluation of USAID/OFDA small scale irrigation (treadle pump) program in ZAMBIA

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2008
    readle pumps are a low-cost technology that has proven effective in increasing small-holder productivity and incomes in Asia, and increasingly in selected parts of Africa. This additional household income provides for a more drought-resistant livelihood.
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    Water wars: enduring myth or impending reality

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2000
    Within the context of the South, water security does not simply translate into economic development, but also food security, and the very survival of states and their citizens. Under these circumstances, it is hardly surprising that the World Commission on the Environment and Development (WCED) has concluded that such resource conflicts are likely to increase as those resources become scarcer.
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    Urban water use: policy brief

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012
    There has been a global shift in the way that water provision for urban water use is viewed. Governments are increasingly choosing to invest in environmental health. By protecting river systems, governments can reduce management costs.

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