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Energy subsidies: Lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms
… would have serious economic and social consequences for mining communities. Mainly benefit higher income groups, … and incomes in local communities that depend heavily on mining. But these subsidies have to be paid for – often out … 6 7 employment in domestic energy industries such as coal mining. Such subsidies can hold back innovation and …
Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks
… as land laws (see Chapter 4 below), agricultural laws, mining laws, planning or land development laws, fiscal laws, … health and sanitation, land use and land planning, mining, energy, forests, environment. The practicability of … harm people and the environment. It goes on to state that mining operations must repair damages they cause to the …
Economic measures for biodiversity planning: An annotated bibliography of methods, experiences and cases
… impacts in the agriculture, forestry, energy and mining sectors amounted to an average of 2.1% of NDP over the … over a 20 year period. The economic consequences of coral mining were also investigated and economic costs (US$ … in rural areas there is still a strong incentive for coral mining, because it provides a more profitable business than …
CITES and CBNRM. Proceedings of an international symposium on “The relevance of CBNRM to the conservation and sustainable use of CITES-listed species in exporting countries”
… poor upstream watershed management or ill-considered mining development. In such situations, communities might … well-resourced and highly organised entities, such as mining companies – will inevitably be in a stronger position … in South Africa, became a specialist in marine diamond mining and worked full-time at sea off the Namibian coast …