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Making asset investment decisions for wastewater systems that include sustainability
Ashley, Richard; Blackwood, David J.; Butler, David; … - 2008
Effective integrated water management is a key component of the World Water Vision and the way in which aspirations for water equity may be realized. Part of the vision includes the promotion of sustainability of water systems and full accountability for their interaction with other urban...
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Macro Level Economic Evaluation of Manure Application Rates Using CEEOT-MMS
Osei, Edward - 2008
Alternative manure application rates represent an integral part of current nutrient management efforts on animal feeding operations (AFOs). Previous studies have indicated that lower manure application rates tend to increase farm production costs. In this study, the Comprehensive Economic and...
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Costs of Reducing Nutrient Losses in Denmark - Analyses of Different Regulation Systems and Cost Effective Measures
Jacobsen, Brian H.; Abildtrup, Jens; Jensen, Jorgen Dejgaard - 2005
regulation systems aimed at reducing nitrogen leaching, analyses of measures for reducing phosphorus losses and estimation of … regulation when compared with administrative regulation and set a side. For phosphorus a balance between incoming and outgoing … phosphorus is very costly as this requires that much slurry is transported from the western to the eastern part of Denmark. The …
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Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Transferable Pollution Permits: The Case of Phosphorus Pollution Management at a River Basin Scale
Kampas, Athanasios; Mamalis, Spyridon - 2006
Although the initial allocation of pollution permits is neutral in terms of efficiency, itdoes have a significant impact on distributive equity. In this paper, we examine the twomain categories of permit allocation rules, the distributive and the reductive, for controllingphosphorus pollution in...
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Functional diversity of mycorrhizal fungi with regard to nutrient transfer
Valtanen, Kerttu - 2013
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India's Fertilizer Industry: Productivity and Energy Efficiency
Schumacher, K.; Sathaye, J. - 2008
Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's fertilizer sector vary from indicating an improvement to a decline in the sector's productivity. The variance may be traced to the time period of study, source of data for analysis, and type of indices and econometric specifications used for...
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A Comparative Analysis of the EU-Morocco FTA vs. Multilateral Liberalization
Elbehri, Aziz; Hertel, Thomas - 2004
contrast the impacts of the Morocco-EU free trade area (FTA) to multilateral trade liberalization on Morocco’s economy …. Simulation results show that the FTA agreement is likely to have adverse effects on Morocco due to: (a) deteriorating terms of … liberalization scenario along the lines of those proposed under the Doha Development Round and find this more beneficial to Morocco …
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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986
The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...
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A TALE OF TWO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS: TUNISIA AND MOROCCO
Friedman, Steven J - 2010
Morocco and Tunisia have both achieved robust economic growth over the last 30 years by utilizing prudent economic … Morocco and Tunisia have transformed both from economically challenged debt-burdened nations into technologically advanced …, diversified and thriving middle-class nations. From 1962 to the Present Day, Morocco has averaged a GDP growth rate of 5.8% and …
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Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Development in Morocco: The Current Situation and the Need of a Development Policy
Hissouf, Abdellatif - 2008
regional policies aiming to promote local development through FDI flows? Although Morocco has 16 regions, it is in practice … divided into "two Moroccos": The Casablanca-Tangier axis or ‘‘Rich Morocco'' (North-West) and the marginalized territories or … ‘‘Poor Morocco'' (South / East / Middle). As would be expected, most of the FDI inflows are located in the Casablanca …
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