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    Exploring and developing environmental economic policies for China in the new era

    Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2010
    The environmental economic policies are mechanisms and regimes that regulate and influence people’s behaviors of making or eliminating pollution and ecological degradation aiming at socio-economic sustainable development by employing such economic leverages as financing, taxation, pricing, credit, investment, and market instruments based on the theories of environmental economics and mark
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    Economics of environmental management system in Oil India Limited: an environmental economics perspective case study of oil, Duliajan

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2006
    The Environmental implications of the exploration and production of mineral oil and natural gas are well known. Global problems like “enhanced greenhouse effect” to locally increased incidence of respiratory disorders are attributed to such operations. So are other forms of pollution, which adversely affect the flora, fauna, humans, domesticated animals and all other forms of life.
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    What does the IPCC say about Bangladesh?

    International Centre for Climate Change and Development, 2014
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific body established to provide a scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its impacts. The IPCC was first established in 1988 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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    Resilience to extreme weather

    Royal Society, 2014
    This report investigates questions such as: How do we reduce the impact of extreme weather today while preparing ourselves for future changes? What can we do to build our resilience? It aims to help inform important decisions about adaptation and risk reduction that are being made at global, national and local levels.
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    Using climate information to achieve long-term development objectives in Malawi

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2015
    Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) is a five-year international research programme to support research to better understand climate variability and change across sub-Saharan Africa.
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    World Development Report 2015: mind, society, and behavior

    World Bank, 2015
    This report argues that development policies based on new insights into how people actually think and make decisions will help governments and civil society more readily tackle such challenges as increasing productivity, breaking the cycle of poverty from one generation to the next, and acting on climate change.
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    The Adaptation Gap Report 2014

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2014
    United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) preliminary assessment of adaptation gaps from a developing nation perspective, including in the context of funding, technology, and knowledge gaps.
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    Turning the lights on: Sustainable energy and development in Viet Nam

    Overseas Development Institute, 2014
    This case study highlights three key factors which the report argues have driven progress in energy in Vietnam: sustained policy commitment, which has adapted to changing conditions; local-level implementation and the mobilisation of local resources for rural electrification; and donors playing a supportive role to the Government to achieve national objectives.
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    Climate change and conflict: lessons for conflict resolution from the Southern Sahel of Sudan

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2011
    Using a human security perspective, this report identifies and analyses local and international non-governmental organisation (NGO) interventions in cases of conflicts related to the environment and environmental change in the southern Sahel of Sudan.
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    Climate change adaptation, conflict and cooperation: a diplomatic approach for Africa?

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2011
    Thia paper provides a statement of outcomes from the COP17 High-Level Panel Discussion, Durban, South Africa, 6 December 2011. For the African continent to deal with potential security implications of climate change, regional cooperation and international outreach are important, and this paper highlights reommendations coming out of the Panel discussion:

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