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    Energy access as a business opportunity in India

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    This paper serves as a background for a workshop on “Best practices in decentralized renewable energy access: sharing knowledge for renewable energy enterprise development” hosted by the IRENA jointly with the Asian Development Bank, Department for International Development and the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), June 2014 in Manila, Philippines, as part o
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    China's regional carbon emissions change over 1997-2007

    Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2010
    The increased demand for energy in China has generated concomitant increase of carbon emissions, which poses an unprecedented challenge to China’s, and even global, sustainable development. In this paper, from the perspective of provincial carbon emissions, the authors analyse China’s carbon emissions changes during 1997-2007 based on the index decomposition analysis method.
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    A research on assessment of urban environmental livable index for China

    Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2010
    While the environments of more and more Chinese cities are becoming less polluted following successful introduction of pollution control and environment renovation measures in recent years, more attention is now being given to the livability of cities. However, these successes are often not quantifiable and are not universally recognised.
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    Study on optimization for central financial special fund of environmental protection

    Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2010
    The central special fund of environmental protection is the main channel for the central government to make financial input into the environmental protection in China, which plays an important role in leading the environmental investment of local finance, enterprises and society.
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    Measuring environmental efficiency of industry: a case study of thermal power generation in India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2006
    Measurement of the productive efficiency of firms that generate environmental pollution (air and water pollution, and land degradation) and face the environmental regulation has to account for their efficiency in producing good output as well as in reducing pollution, the bad output.
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    Internalising the Cost of Biodiversity loss using Translog Cost Function - wp276.pdf

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2006
    Aquaculture has rapidly developed as a thriving business in many developing countries in response to dramatic increase in the demand for shrimp from United States, Japan and Europe. Shrimp farming and aquacultural activities are mostly carried out in coastal regions as they provide vast tracts of saline lands coupled with an abundant quantity of wild seeds.
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    "We are used to this”: A qualitative assessment of the perceptions of and attitudes towards air pollution amongst slum residents in Nairobi

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014
    Urban air pollution remains a major health risk to millions of urban residents worldwide as it is estimated that about 1.3 million deaths annually are attributable to urban air pollution
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    Poverty environment nexus: an investigation of linkage and policy implications

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2008
    There is a clear connection between environment and poverty and it can hardly be over emphasised. The more visible environmental problems are mostly seen in the case of exhaustive resources which are in constant danger of depletion from excessive use, particularly in a developing country such as Bangladesh.
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    Impacts of large-scale investments in agriculture on water resources, ecosystems and livelihoods; and development of policy options for decision makers

    GRID Arendal, 2014
    The goal of this project  is to analyze the nature and extent of impacts of foreign direct investments (FDI) in agriculture in Africa.
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    Waghoba tales: Adventures in leopard land

    Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 2014
    Between 2007 and 2011, the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and the Centre for Ecological Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science received funding from the Royal Norwegian Embassy (New Delhi) for a large project on Human-Wildlife Conflicts.

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