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A participatory approach to assess the effectiveness of responses to cope with flood risk
Ceccato, Lucia; Giannini, Valentina; Giupponi, Carlo - 2010
This work illustrates the preliminary findings of a participatory research process aimed at identifying responses for sustainable water management in a climate change perspective, in two river basins in Europe and Asia. The paper describes the methodology implemented through local workshops,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272443
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Policies and measures to mitigate the potential environmental impacts of cross-border infrastructure projects in Asia
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
While bringing positive impacts and benefits, cross-border infrastructure projects face additional challenges relative to national projects. Moreover, such projects involve a variety of technical, regulatory, institutional, and legal factors, and their obstacles constrain the development of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279831
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European Policies towards Palm Oil - Sorting Out some Facts
Pehnelt, Gernot; Vietze, Christoph - 2009
tropical countries and contributes to the reduction of poverty and hunger in the developing world. The EU Renewable Energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271184
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Global and Regional Impacts of the Clean Development Mechanism
Wang, Shunli; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2009
consequences of non-participation of the USA in the global coalition, and the associated distributional impacts world-wide. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326040
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The cold economy
Peters, Toby; Sayin, Leyla - 2022
Lack of cooling and cold-chain access is a critical development challenge that has significant implications for people's livelihoods, productivity, health, food, and nutritional security. While business-as-usual demand projections suggest 19 new cooling appliances will be sold every second by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472135
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Nachhaltiges Landmanagement vor dem Hintergrund des Klimawandels als Aufgabe der räumlichen Planung: Eine Evaluation im planerischen Mehrebenensystem an den Beispielen der Altmark und des Landkreises Lüchow-Dannenbergs
Hellmich, Meike - 2018
Die Ressource Fläche ist weltweit begrenzt. Ein nachhaltiges Landmanagement ist, nicht nur vor dem Hintergrund des Klimawandels, erforderlich, um den verschiedenen Interessen an der Fläche gerecht zu werden. Bestehende Funktionen auf der Fläche, beispielsweise die Produktion von...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942728
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Quantifying sustainability: A new approach and world ranking
Carraro, Carlo; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio; … - 2012
evolution of all indicators over time throughout the world, and (ii) the aggregation methodology to reconcile them in one … current sustainability at world level differs from what the traditional measure of well-being, the GDP, depicts, highlighting … the trade-offs among different components of sustainability. Moreover, in the next decade a slight decrease in world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294272
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Climate change mitigation and green growth in developing Asia
Howes, Stephen; Wyrwoll, Paul - 2012
Developing Asia is the driver of today's emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflecting this global reality and a range of related domestic issues, the governments of the People's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397290
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Trade, Climate Policy and Carbon Leakage - Theory and Empirical Evidence
Aichele, Rahel - 2013
-contained chapters. The chapters investigate how, in a globalized world, partial international climate policy has shaped international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698339
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Ocean iron fertilization: why further research is needed
Güssow, Kerstin; Oschlies, Andreas; Proelss, Alexander; … - 2009
Despite large uncertainties in the fertilization efficiency, natural iron fertilization studies and some of the purposeful iron enrichment studies have demonstrated that Southern Ocean iron fertilization can lead to a significant export of carbon from the sea surface to the ocean interior. From...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265835