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Ground Water Pollution and Emerging Environmental Challenges of Industrial Effluent Irrigation : A Case Study of Mettupalayam Taluk, Tamilnadu
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Nelliyat, Prakash - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Industrial disposal of effluents on land and subsequent pollution of groundwater and soil of surrounding farmlands is a … effluents on land, which has limited capacity to assimilate the pollution load, has led to groundwater pollution. Ground water … and/or river water the impact of pollution on livelihood was minimised. Since the local administration is supplying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363651
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Pollution Across Chinese Provinces
Co, Catherine Yap; Kong, Fanying; Lin, Shuanglin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower … industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste … water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365297
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Sustainable Development Framework for Local Governance
Cabalfin, Michael R.; Yap, Josef T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty reduction, human development, sustainable development, and more recently to institutional development. There has also been a fresh look at industrial policy and the role of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363294
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Sustainable development : Have we got our priorities right?
Clough, Peter - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Sustainable development remains high on the international agenda, even as policy makers are distracted by the political and fiscal fall-out of the global financial crisis. Its continued prominence is illustrated by various countries use of fiscal stimulus to fast-track the greening of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363410
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Sustainable Development Framework for Local Governance
Cabalfin, Michael R.; Yap, Josef T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty reduction, human development, sustainable development, and more recently to institutional development. There has also been a fresh look at industrial policy and the role of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363564
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Ecology, Environment and Sustainable Development in Indian Fiscal Federalism
Sankar, U. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
paper also reviews the UNs environmental policy and Indias pollution prevention and control policy and discusses various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365298
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Measuring Sustainability with Macroeconomic Data for India
Dasgupta, Purnamita; Gupta, Shikha - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper investigates certain macro data on the Indian economy to draw inferences on the sustainability of the economic growth experienced over the last couple of decades. Interpreting sustainability in terms of the maintenance of different forms of capital to ensure that future consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365459
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Leveraging Environment and Climate Change Initiatives for Corporate Excellence
Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam; Kimura, Mari; Isono, Kumiko - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
As an integral part of sustainable development, the impacts from climate change, including increasing water stress, more extreme weather events, the potential for high levels of migration and the disruption of international markets are critical challenges for all Asian countries. With rapid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651613
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Leveraging Environment and Climate Change Initiatives for Corporate Excellence
Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam; Kimura, Mari; Isono, Kumiko - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
As an integral part of sustainable development, the impacts from climate change, including increasing water stress, more extreme weather events, the potential for high levels of migration and the disruption of international markets are critical challenges for all Asian countries. With rapid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651630
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Leveraging Environment and Climate Change Initiatives for Corporate Excellence
Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam; Kimura, Mari; Isono, Kumiko - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
As an integral part of sustainable development, the impacts from climate change, including increasing water stress, more extreme weather events, the potential for high levels of migration and the disruption of international markets are critical challenges for all Asian countries. With rapid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651644