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- This report explains the state of sustainable buildings and the construction industry in India including best practices, successes, barriers and recommendations for further implementation towards mitigation of climate change impacts. This report was published by UNEP in 2010.
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- Priyanka Kochhar
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- United Nations Environment Programme
- http://www.unep.org/pdf/SBCI_State_of_play_India.pdf
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- The potential development of mega urban economies in three South East Asian locations - Bangkok, Jakarta and the Singapore Iskander Development Region (IDR) (South Johor) - is discussed. The gains from closer economic integration and the issues to be settled before this could occur are examined. Lessons are drawn from the fusing of the economies of Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta in Chinas Guangdong Province. This document is Policy Research Working Paper 4252 from the World Bank Development Research Group, and was published in June 2007.
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- Shahid Yusuf
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/7406
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- The potential development of mega urban economies in three South East Asian locations - Bangkok, Jakarta and the Singapore Iskander Development Region (IDR) (South Johor) - is discussed. The gains from closer economic integration and the issues to be settled before this could occur are examined. Lessons are drawn from the fusing of the economies of Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta in Chinas Guangdong Province.
This document is Policy Research Working Paper 4252 from the World Bank Development Research Group,
Published June 2007.
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- Shahid Yusuf
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/7406/wps4252.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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- This report reviews water scarcity in China, assesses policy and institutional requirements for addressing it, and recommends key areas for strengthening and reform. It brings together the main findings and recommendations from over 30 technical reports, case studies, and background papers prepared for the World Banks Analytical and Advisory Assistance (AAA) programme entitled Addressing Chinas Water Scarcity: From Analysis to Action. The document, report no.47111, was published by The World Bank in 2009.
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- Jian Xie; Andres Liebenthal; Jeremy J Warford; John A Dixon; Manchuan Wang; Shiji Gao; Shuilin Wang; Yong Jiang; Zhong Ma
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2585
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- This report evaluates the current use of microirrigation technologies in Maharashtra and Gujarat in India as a method of saving water in irrigated agriculture and averting potential water shortage crises, a strategy to increase farm incomes and reduce poverty and a method of enhancing the food and nutritional security of rural households through an increase in the area of cultivation, better crop yields, enhanced output quality, early crop maturity and reduced cultivation costs. This report was published by IWMI in 2005.
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- R. E. Namara; B. Upadhyay; R. K. Nagar
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3910/2009.094
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- This report aims to provide capacity building on disaster risk financing and insurance (DRFI) in ASEAN member states. It discusses the financial assessment and financial management of natural disasters and then goes on to describe agricultural insurance and disaster microinsurance. It concludes by arguing that governments need to understand the benefits and the limitations of disaster risk financing and insurance as part of their disaster risk management strategies. This report was published by the World Bank in 2012.
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- The World Bank Group
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12627
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- This document provides the technical appendices for volume one of this report. It includes nine appendices, including information about disaster risk exposure profiles, disaster risk management profiles and agricultural and microinsurance for ASEAN member states. This report was published by The World Bank in 2012.
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- The World Bank Group
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12628
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- This report examines the performance of primary agricultural credit cooperatives in three districts in Andhra Pradesh, India, following the recent microfinance crisis, and finds a lack of training among the management that it recommends be improved to prevent an increase in government role in the supply of credit that may undermine the culture of repayment. This report was published by The World Bank in 2011.
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- Jordi de la Torre; Xavier Gine; Tara Vishwanath
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3570
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- This report evaluates the acute water shortages and pollution problems in North China, specifically in the Yellow (Huang), Hai and Huai (3-H) river basins, and recommends a number of improvements to China's water management practices to better support agriculture, the urban and industrial water supply and ecological resources in this area. It examines changes in the economy and society affecting the water sector, the current water resource situation in the 3-H basins and feasible options for balancing water supply and demand. It includes action plans for each of the key areas including flood control, agriculture, pollution control, wastewater reuse and groundwater management. This report was published by The World Bank in 2002.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15418
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- This collection of papers examines agriculture and rural development in China, linkages between China and The WorldFish Center, aquaculture research and its relation to development in China and the research priorities of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (CAFS). It was published by WorldFish in 2003.
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- L. X. Zhang; J. Liu; S. F. Li; N. S. Yang; P. R. Gardiner
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_348.pdf
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- This report provides an introduction to the importance of agriculture and the growth of public and private agricultural insurance in Asia and the Pacific regions and discusses risk management and the role of agricultural insurance, agricultural insurance provision, public sector support for agricultural insurance, small farmer agricultural insurance initiatives and options and recommendations for government support to agricultural insurance in Asia and the Pacific region. This report was published by FAO in 2011.
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- Charles Stutley
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/i2344e/i2344e00.htm
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- This study of the dairy industry in India examines the structure of the dairy sector, the role of dairy cooperatives, the impact of the dairy industry on smallholders and rural development, and lessons that can be learnt from the industry. It is one of a series of studies of the dynamics that have led certain industries to grow rapidly, which seek to draw lessons on how to support positive patterns of change. This document, Agricultural Management, Marketing and Finance Working Document 21, was published by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2007.
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- O P Sinha
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- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/ap299e/ap299e.pdf
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- This study of the soybean industry in India examines the structure of the soybean sector, marketing and commercial viability, the impact of the growth of the soybean industry on farm households, sustaining and improving commercial viability and farmers income, and lessons that can be learned from the industry. It is one of a series of studies of the dynamics that have led certain industries to grow rapidly, which seek to draw lessons on how to support positive patterns of change. This document, Agricultural Management, Marketing and Finance Working Document 20, was published by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2007.
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- Ramesh Chand
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- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/ap300e/ap300e.pdf
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- This report assesses the environmental impacts of the overuse of land and water resources in Hai Duong, Ha Tay and Son La provinces of Vietnam and analyzes the agricultural environmental institutions in North Vietnam to provide information about government institutions responsible for improving these conditions. This report was published by FAO in 2004.
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- Vu Trong Binh et al.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/af334e/af334e00.htm
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- This article examines changes in land use in Wuhan, China, over the period 1987-2005. The study used remote sensing techniques to determine land use data and spatial analysis software to quantify ecological metrics at both landscape and class levels. The article was published in the Journal of Geography and Geology Vol. 3, No. 1; September 2011.
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- Victor Tamba Simbay Kabba; Jiangfeng Li
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- Canadian Center of Science and Education
- http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jgg/article/view/8994
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- This report attempts to estimate the social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution damage categories: urban air pollution, inadequate water supply and indoor air pollution as well as four natural resource damage categories: agricultural damage, rangeland degradation, deforestation and natural disasters. The report provides estimated costs in Rupees for all of the above categories. This report was published by The World Bank in 2012.
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- Muthukumara Mani; Anil Markandya; Aarsi Sagar; Elena Strukova
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12065
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- This study provides an overview of the global packaging industry, assesses the status and trends of food packaging in developing countries and identifies some food packaging solutions in developing countries.
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- Nerlita M. Manalili; Moises A. Dorado; Robert van Otterdijk
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3684e.pdf
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- This report examines the impacts of aquaculture development on poverty, markets and trade research in support of pro-poor aquaculture development, global trends in aquaculture, key issues for reducing poverty and hunger, assuring the growth in aquaculture in Asia generates livelihoods for the poor, assuring higher rates of fish consumption by the poor and emerging priorities for research on markets and trade. This report was published by WorldFish in 2011.
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- A. Gordon; L. Kassam
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2828.pdf
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- This study investigates the sustainability of aquaculture extension projects in Kapasia Upazila in Gazipur District in Bangladesh, surveying the household socioeconomic changes and pond aquaculture practices and changes since the end of earlier specific extension efforts. It also presents the results of detailed monitoring of sixty-nine ponds in Kapasia, a fish consumption survey in Kapasia, case studies of aquaculture technologies in Kapasia and a survey of fish markets and consumers.
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- P. M. Thompson; P. Sultana; A. K. M. Firoz Khan
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_559.pdf
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- This report reviews the importance of rice and fish in rural Cambodia, the current status of the aquaculture sector in Cambodia, the challenges for poor people adopting fish farming and examples of small-scale aquaculture development initiatives. This report was published by WorldFish in 2010.
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- O. Joffre; Y. Kura; J. Pant; S. Nam
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2769.pdf
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- This brief report highlights some of the key findings relating to the ASEAN region taken from a global review of the impacts of aquaculture on the environment including an overview of aquaculture in the region, an analysis of how aquaculture affects the ocean life cycle and a prediction of future demand.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2819.pdf
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- This brief report describes the livelihood options adopted by participants of the Adivasi Fisheries Project in Bangladesh, including pond aquaculture, rice-fish farming, cage culture of fingerlings, habitat restoration, fingerling trading, food fish trading and netting teams.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2484.pdf
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- This short article examines the effects aquaculture has on agriculture through a study on rice fields skirting three shrimp farms and finds that aquaculture and agriculture can coexist in coastal areas if there are buffer zones between them. This article was originally published in Naga, the quarterly magazine of The WorldFish Center, in 2000.
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- S. A. Khan; P. Lyla; N. Veerappan; S. Rajagopal
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Naga/aq1.pdf
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- This paper identifies how the contribution of fisheries and aquaculture to poverty reduction and food security can be enhanced while maintaining sustainability in over-exploited and over-capitalized capture fisheries and improving environmental performance. This paper was published by WorldFish in 2011.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2971.pdf
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- This study estimates the strength of pollution-haven-seeking behaviour by foreign firms investing in China by examining the location choices of equity joint venture (EJV) projects. A location choice model is constructed and an econometric model derived incorporating the results from 2,886 manufacturing joint venture projects from 1993-96. Data is also included from the annual Chinese environmental and economic censuses. This document is World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3505, published in February 2005.
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- Judith M Dean; Mary E Lovely; Hua Wang
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/8902
