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  Processes and Production Methods (PPMs): Conceptual Framework and Considerations on Use of PPM-based Trade Measures

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1997

  Consumers in many countries are increasingly seeking information on how the PPMs of the products they buy affect the environment. Negative impacts of PPMs can be of two sorts. A process or production method can affect the characteristics of a product so that the product itself may pollute or degrade the environment when it is consumed or used (product-related PPMs).
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  Market Based Instruments For Environmental Policymaking In Latin America And The Caribbean: Lessons From Eleven Countries

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 1998

  Study of market-based instruments, focusing on 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela) and a cross-section of issues (water supply and abstraction, water quality, air quality, energy, solid and liquid waste management, toxic substances, noise, and agriculture) within an urban s
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  Monitoring and Post-auditing in Environmental Impact Assessment

  Environmental Impact Assessment Centre, University of Manchester, 1998

  Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is often viewed as a series of steps, leading from screening, through scoping and environmental impact statement (EIS) preparation, to consultation and decision-making.
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  Environment benefits from removing trade restrictions and distortions: background for WTO negotiations

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  The interaction between environmental policies and trade policies emerged as an issue at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.
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  Large Dams and their Alternatives in East & South East Asia: Experiences and Lessons Learned

  World Commission on Dams, 2000

  Proceedings from a regional consultation meeting held in Hanoi in February 2000.
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  Guidelines for environmental impact assessments in international development cooperation

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1998

  Short explanation of principles for project/programme implemention of EIA, plus a series of sector level checklists or key questions
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  Economic growth and the environment

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000

  The objective of this paper is to critically review, synthesize and interpret the literature on the relationship between economic growth and environment.
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  Automobiles and environmental sustainability: issues and options for developing countries

  Tata Energy Research Institute, India, 1998

  The paper focuses on motorization - the growth in ownership and use of motorized vehicles - and its impact on energy demand and emissions with particular reference to the developing world.
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  Industrial pollution control: choosing the right option

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2000

  This paper indicates that command and control regulation and standard enforcement has failed to control the problem of industrial pollution in India.Concludes:Regulators must decide which pollution sources to target, while taking note of the sensitivity of such targets (i.e.
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  State of the Environment reporting crucial in regional natural resource management

  Southern African Research and Documentation Centre, 1999

  This issue asserts that the "State of the Environment Reporting is crucial in regional natural resource management". It provides a narration of the SOE reporting process, strategy and identifies the shortcomings of SOE reporting in SADC region.

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