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Five years age, International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be used to encourage construction of otherwise uneconomic large hydropower projects, taking limited funds away...
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International Rivers strongly supports policy measures that can promote a rapid expansion of renewable energy sources. But these measures need to be based on a holistic understanding of sustainability. Large hydropower projects are not a renewable source of energy, can produce significant...
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The report of the Expert Committee provides a broad overarching framework for guiding the policies governing the production and use of different forms of energy from various sources. It makes specific recommendations on a very large range of issues. The report is a valuable input into policy...
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within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …
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All foreign observers have interpreted China through the filter of their own era, as well as their personal background … and experiences. A virtual academic industry has developed, not on China itself but on 'interpretations', 'perceptions …' or 'images' of China, but the narrower, though not always separate, issue of scholarly approaches and interpretations …
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Ernest Morrison Lecture on Ethnography, 2003, The Contemporary China Centre] …
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In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the West -- as high as 1.07 in China … campagins. Hepatitis B is common in many Asian countries, especially China, where some 10 to 15 per cent of the population is … hepatitis B can account for about 45 per cent of the "missing women": around 75 per cent in China, between 20 per cent and 50 …
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Reform in the People's Republic of China has seen a dramatic change in the discourse of localism, which has now moved … China, suggests to the contrary that the impact of new discourses of localism has actually strengthened the nationalist …, 2004, The Contemporary China Centre] …
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India represents a sharp contrast to China in the small size of its goods trade. Although India’s GDP is a third that … of China, its global trade is only about 12 percent as large while its trade with United States is less than 10 percent … as large. Even more striking, Japan’s trade with India is less than 5 percent of its trade with China. The large U …
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effectively integrate modern and indigenous systems of medicine in contrast to China. [Drafted by Abhay Shukla and Ravi Duggal] …
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