In the context of a focus exploiting for alternative and renewable energies to reach the emission reduction goal in China, wind power industry serves as a significant development object and also shows vast development space. However, for its investors, project risks and the long-term positive...

Part I: Introducing the Framework -- 1. Launch Pad -- 2. Human Capital -- 3. Finance Capital, Market, and Policy -- 4. Infrastructure and Institutions -- 5. Management of Resources and Lessons Learned -- Part II: Learning from Successful Innovation Regions -- 6. Bangalore Innovation System -- 7....

Environmental monitoring and enforcement are controversial and incompletely understood. This survey reviews what we do and do not know about the overall effectiveness, as well as the cost effectiveness, of pollution monitoring and enforcement. We ask five key questions: what do environmental...

Compliance is one of the central, but often overlooked challenges that actors face as they seek to devise and implement environmental policies. Therefore this paper draws upon multiple models of rule compliance to assess the factors influencing compliance in the high forest zone of Ghana....