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Environmental Taxation in China and Asia-Pacific contains an integrated set of detailed chapters providing insights and … policy in China, environmental fiscal reform, carbon tax policy in northeast Asia and environmental taxation strategies in … China, Asia and Australia, as well as many other relevant topics …
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Bottom-up approaches towards a global climate agreement : an overview -- Carlo Carraro, Christian Egenhofer and Noriko Fujiwara -- Regional and subglobal climate blocs : a cost-benefit analysis of bottom-up climate regimes / Barbara Buchner and Carlo Carraro -- Do regional integration approaches...
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"Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, Rethinking Economic Transformation for Sustainable and Inclusive Development explores important environmental, economic and employment issues and policies for generating inclusive growth. Addressing the realities of ongoing climate change...
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"Providing an authoritative yet accessible introduction to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), this comprehensive Companion offers a detailed examination of the ADB's objectives, policies, development outcomes, strengths and weaknesses, areas for reform, and challenges going forward. M.G. Quibria...
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well as paying specific attention to the control of carbon dioxide emissions in China. The book begins with a general …-existing distortions. An empirical evaluation of China's environmental policies is also included. The latter brings the discussion into the … area of global warming policies with the focus on the implications to China. A dynamic general equilibrium model, G …
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The impact of climate change on seven regions of the United States is studied in this new and accessible collection. The study examines how the different regions of the United States may be affected by climate change. In particular, the study explores whether warming would be beneficial to the...
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Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, national governments have introduced a range of policy measures designed to steer their economies along a more sustainable path. Yet how are we to know how successful these have been? This significant new book discusses the ways in which sustainable...
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Despite its great importance, there are surprisingly few economic studies of the impact of climate on agriculture and how agriculture can adapt under a variety of conditions. This book examines 22 countries across four continents, including both developed and developing economies. It provides...
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The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change recognises that, in the formulation of a global strategy for reducing global emissions of carbon (the main factor in global warming) forests could play an important role. This book highlights that role and demonstrates how the forests of the world...
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