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The environmental impact of economic incentives for agricultural production: a comparative law study
… the environment, 2/ and, similarly, is both the victim of pollution and the cause of multiple harm. It is a producer of … jurists. __________ 4/ By way of example : Agriculture and Pollution, Seventh Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, London, 1979, 225 pages; Agriculture, Development …
Energy subsidies: Lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms
… concerns, particularly climate change and local pollution. In some cases, governments subsidise these … supply and consumption, including local and regional air pollution and CO2 emissions. By encouraging over- consumption, under-pricing contributes to pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Removing electricity …
Economic measures for biodiversity planning: An annotated bibliography of methods, experiences and cases
… Ecosystem or sector focus: Forests, Watersheds Topics: Pollution, Valuation, Economic instruments #17. Barbier, E. … fishing, blast fishing, coral mining, sedimentation, pollution and over-fishing. These destructive activities are … America and the Caribbean. These include valuations of air pollution in Chile, Coral reef degradation in the Netherlands …
Community - based incentives for nature conservation
… water. For example, in Case Study 4, urban and industrial pollution are major issues in wetlands management. 2.2.2 … contain inadequate consideration of waste management and pollution control, and environmental sector policies which … chemically and biologically removes nutrients and pollution from these wastewaters. These functions are …
Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening
… and floods. On the other hand, fighting against pollution and looking for recreational areas have become … and foodstuffs. Activities towards reduction of air pollution and other environmental improvement can also … and vegetation also play an important part in reducing air pollution and in creating more suitable climatic conditions, …
Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks
… and control policies may be effective in controlling pollution from well-defined point sources, such as factories … they are less effective in regulating non-point sources of pollution, such as those occurring when numerous upstream … to agricultural land. In these cases, down- stream water pollution (or scarcity) is the result of the combination of …
Review of laws, policies and economic instruments related to payment for ecosystem services in Vietnam
… No. 67/2003/ND-CP, 13/06/2003, limiting environmental pollution caused by waste water, guiding the economical use … 31. Decision No. 64/2003/QD-TTg, guiding the control of pollution and waste 32. Decision No. 34/2002/QD-BNNPTNT, …
A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes
… short paper (15 pages). It describes market failures, pollution control, and environmental valuation. It concludes … on ecosystem services, with links to basic info on pollution, water purification, forest carbon storage, and …
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”
… impact upon biodiversity. Changes in land use and climate, pollution, habitat degradation and fragmentation are among … overexploitation of biodiversity and serious air and water pollution problems, all associated with earlier and ongoing … reforming destructive fisheries, halting wildlife habitat pollution, campaigning against commercial whaling and …