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  Factors that determine the efficiency ranking of second-best instruments for environmental regulation

  Programa de Gestion y Economia Ambiental, Chile, 2002

  Cost-effective policies allow minimising the compliance costs associated to reaching a desired environmental quality target. However cost reductions associated to the use of these policies are not always significant.
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  Extractive industries in arid and semi-arid zones: environmental planning and management

  Convention to Combat Desertification, 2003

  This report by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, details the planning and management approaches that minimise land degradation and desertification in arid and semi-arid zones, as a result of extractive industries operations.The publication is intended for government departments responsible for the licensing, planning and monitoring of extractive industries activities.T
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  Baseline study on the problem of obsolete pesticide stocks

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001

  Large stockpiles of obsolete pesticides have been accumulated in virtually all developing countries throughout the last four decades. This baseline study provides an overview of the current global situation in relation to obsolete pesticides and reviews the perspective of the various organisations with an interest in the issue.
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  Impacts of greenhouse and local gases mitigation options on air pollution in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area: valuation of human health effects

  Centro de Estudios Macroeconomicos de Argentina, 2002

  This paper aims to understand the possible health-related benefits of reducing and containing greenhouse and local gases (GHG) emissions in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The study extrapolates three scenarios into the year 2012, and analyses trends in health-related expenditure that emerge as a result of long-term exposure to GHG emissions.
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  Rural poverty, property rights and environmental resource management in Kenya

  International Centre for Theoretical Physics - Ecological and Environmental Economics Programme, 2004

  This study investigates the relationship between rural poverty, property rights, and environmental resource management in a semi-arid region of Kenya using analysis of survey data. It argues that reduced environmental degradation will increase agricultural productivity, and which will then translate into lower levels of poverty as incomes and consumption expenditures rise.
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  Environmental management for malaria control in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2004

  This document from Health, Nutrition and Population division, World Bank, presents options to minimise malaria risks associated with infrastructure development projects in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. It also aims to raise awareness of opportunities to design, construct and operate infrastructure as a sustainable means of reducing malaria transmission risks.
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  Integrated marine and coastal area management approaches for implementing the convention on biological diversity

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2004

  This report details the programme of work on marine and coastal biodiversity under the convention on biological diversity that aims to assist the implementation of the convention at the national, regional and global levels.The report specifically details the operational objectives and priority activities within five key programmes, including:implementation of integrated marine and coast
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  Livelihoods and climate change: combining disaster risk reduction, natural resource management and climate change adaptation in a new approach to the reduction of vulnerability and poverty

  Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2003

  This paper discusses a variety of issues surrounding livelihoods and climate change. Highlights of the paper include:
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  Can GM-technologies help the poor?: the impact of Bt Cotton in Makhathini Flats and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  GRAIN, 2003

  This paper reports on a two-year survey of one hundred smallholder farmers in South Africa who adopted Bt cotton, from 1999-2000.The results of the survey include:higher cotton yields and lower chemical costs outweighed higher Bt cotton seed costs, giving higher gross marginsonce labour savings are taken into account, the Bt cotton adopters were considerably more efficient than thos
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  Liability and redress in the field of biotechnology: towards the development of rules at the national and international levels

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2004

  This paper discusses the issues surrounding the question of liability in relation to the introduction of genetically modified organisms and the related environmental impacts.

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