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- eeu sweden | Climate change Economic valuation of climate change adaptation This paper reviews the literature on the economics of climate change adaptation in developing countries, and identifies three key points for consideration in future studies. Stage, J. (2010) "Economic valuation of climate change adaptation in developing countries", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1185: 150 – 163
- eeu sweden rff usa | Climate change Corporate Environmental Management in Transition Economies: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe We use firm-level data to study the adoption of Environmental Management Practices (EMPs) in the most polluting industrial sectors in Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia during the 1990 – 1998 period when these countries were in a transition away from a centrally planned economy. Garcia, J H., R Bluffstone, T Sterner (2009): "Corporate Environmental Management in Transition Economies: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe", Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, 59(5):410-425.
- china Industrial and Aggregate Measures of Productivity Growth in China We estimate productivity growth for 33 industries covering the entire Chinese economy using a time series of input-output tables covering 1982-2000. J. Cao, M. Ho, D. Jorgenson. R. Ren, L. Sun, X. Yue (2009), "Industrial and Aggregate Measures of Productivity Growth in China", Review of Income and Wealth, 55(1), 485-513.
- china | Policy design The Local and Global Benefits of Green Tax Policies in China This article describes a multidisciplinary study of market-based policies for controlling air pollution in China. While previous studies have examined the costs and benefits of pollution control separately, this approach determines them together using an economy–environment model for China. J. Cao, M. Ho, and D. Jorgenson (2009), "The Local and Global Benefits of Green Tax Policies in China", Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 3(2), 189-208.
- china | Policy design China's 11th Five-Year Plan and the Environment: Reducing SO2 Emissions China's rapid economic growth has been accompanied by a high level of environmental degradation. One of the major sources of health and ecosystem damages is sulfur dioxide (SO2). Reducing SO2 emissions is a priority of China's environmental authorities, and the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006–2010) includes the target of reducing total SO2 emissions by 10 percent from the 2005 level. J. Cao, R. Garbaccio, and M. Ho (2009), "China's 11th Five-Year Plan and the Environment: Reducing SO2 Emissions", Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 3(2), 231-250.
- ethiopia | Agriculture Impacts of Low-cost Land Certification on Investment and Productivity New land reforms are again high on the policy agenda and low-cost, propoor reforms are being tested in poor countries. Holden, S. T., Deininger, K. and Ghebru, H. (2009), "Impacts of Low-cost Land Certification on Investment and Productivity", American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91 (2):359-373.
- china | Policy design Clean Air in Urban China: The Case of Inter-agency Coordination in Chongqing’s Blue Sky Program Air pollution in urban China is increasingly attributed to dispersed sources such as motor vehicles and construction sites, over which environmental protection bureaus (EPBs) share jurisdiction with other government line agencies. Wanxin Li & Hon S. Chan (2009), "Clean Air in Urban China: The Case of Inter-agency Coordination in Chongqing’s Blue Sky Program", Public Administration and Development 29, 55–67
- china | Policy design Small but Effective Moves towards A Greener China Ten years ago, there was hardly any environmental enforcement by civil society or by the markets in China. In 1999–2000, the World Bank collaborated on a pilot programme with the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning, Nanjing University, the Zhenjiang Environmental Protection Bureau in Jiangsu Province and the Hohhot Academy of Environmental Sciences in Inner Mongolia. Wanxin Li (2009), "Small but Effective Moves towards A Greener China", Nature Vol. 460, No. 7256, 683-684
- china | Policy design Effective Pollution Control Policy for China China began enforcing a system of pollution levies in 1982. However, senior environmental officials expressed doubt that this system was improving the environment and, in 1996, they began to place greater reliance on mill closure as the penalty for poor environmental performance. Since then, managers have found means of subverting many of the intended mill closures, and this causes us to return to the question of the abatement efficiency and effectiveness of the levies. Xu,Jintao, William F. Hyde and Yongjie Ji, 2010. "Effective pollution control policy for China", Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol.33(1):47-66.
- china | Agriculture Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraints and Off-Farm Labor: Impact of the Grain for Green Program on Rural Households in China This study evaluates the labor response of rural households participating in the Grain-for-Green program in China, the largest payments for ecosystem services program in the developing world. Uchida, Emi, Scott Rozelle and Jintao Xu, 2009, “Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraints and Off-Farm Labor: Impact of the Grain for Green Program on Rural Households in China”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 91(1) (February 2009): 70–86
