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Land and Disaster Management Strategies in Asia
This book focuses on land and disaster governance in Asian countries. The Asian region has become increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters, including floods, cyclones, storms, earthquakes, drought, typhoons and tsunamis. Further, as a result of unsustainable changes being made in patterns of land use, catchment and coastal zones, increasing population density, migration patterns, and the sp…
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- 978-81-322-1976-7
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Micro Irrigation Systems in India
This book takes stock of micro irrigation systems (MIS), the technological intervention in India’s agricultural and water management sectors, over the past couple of decades. Based on empirical research from the major agriculturally dynamic states, viz., Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, the book provides a nuanced understanding and objective assessmen…
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- 978-981-10-0346-2
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- XIV, 178
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- India Studies in Business and Economics
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Essays in Economic Dynamics Theory, Simulation Analysis, and Methodological …
This book reflects the state of the art in nonlinear economic dynamics, providing a broad overview of dynamic economic models at different levels. The wide variety of approaches ranges from theoretical and simulation analysis to methodological study. In particular, it examines the local and global asymptotical behavior of both macro- and micro- level mathematical models, theoretically as well a…
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- 978-981-10-1521-2
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- 79 b/w illustrations
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Toward Well-Oiled Relations?
With China replacing the United States as the world's leading energy user and net oil importer, its relations with the Middle East is becoming a major issue with global implications. Horesh and his contributors set out to analyse the implications of China's growing presence in the Middle East.
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- 978-1-137-53978-6
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- XII, 239
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- The Nottingham China Policy Institute Series
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Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disast…
Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters, and perceive the return on investment as uncertain – only realised if a somewhat unlikely disaster event actually happens. This book develo…
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- 978-3-319-40694-7
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- 333.7
A Violent World: Modern Threats to Economic Stability
During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. The 2000s showed how it is an illusion to imagine a peaceful world without conflict. In this book the authors explore how six major constraints are set to fix the trajectory of the global economy. Three of them are new: the aging population, the failure of technical progress, and the scarcity of savings. The other three have b…
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- 978-1-137-58993-4
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- XIV, 181
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- 339 LOR v
Genetically Modified Crops and Agricultural Development
“This book is the second publication in the ‘Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy’ series, and targets both professional and lay audiences. … this book can be recommended to a wide readership; excellently written, it is one of the first books to address both the technical and policy dimensions of GMCs in development.” (George H. L. Rothschild, Food Security, Vol.…
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- 978-1-349-56167-4
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- XVII, 206
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- 330 QAI g
Environmental and Social-economic Impacts of Sewage Sludge Treatment The Evi…
This book presents an experimental simulation of sewage treatment, which is designed to evaluate the environmental and social-economic impacts of integrated sewage treatment policies. The author puts forward a comprehensive linear optimization simulation model that takes the environmental, energy and economic systems into consideration. Beijing was selected as a typical Chinese city for the pur…
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- 978-981-287-948-6
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- 28 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
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Environmental Policy and Renewable Energy Equipment Exports An Empirical Ana…
This thesis investigates the connection between environmental regulation, technological innovation, and export competitiveness in renewable energy equipment based on a large sample of 225 developed and developing countries from 1990 to 2012. The empirical analysis yields strong supporting evidence for the narrowly strong Porter Hypothesis as well as for the lead market theory. The results sugge…
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- 978-3-658-13558-4
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- 17 b/w illustrations
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Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis and Carbon Dioxide Emissions
This book investigates the relationship between environmental degradation and income, focusing on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from around the world, to explore the possibility of sustainable development under global warming. Although many researchers have tackled this problem by estimating the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), unlike the approach to sulfur dioxide emissions, there seems to …
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- 978-4-431-55921-4
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- 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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