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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2006-10-25
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9264028471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina has the world's largest population but very limited supplies of water. This conference proceedings examines how China can best used its limited water resources in agriculture.
Author: Xinxin Ma
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-10-06
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 981193858X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat can Chinese economists learn from the Japanese economic boom and subsequent stagnation? This project aims to institutionally and empirically investigate the growth mechanism and determinants of sustainable development in China compared with Japanese experiences. This is the first challenge in conducting a comparative study on China and Japan’s economic growth and development. We aim to investigate the economic system transition and its influence on the Chinese and Japanese economy from macroeconomic and microeconomic perspectives. This book will interest economists, scholars of comparative politics, and scholars of China or Japan's economic development.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2008-03-20
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9264062270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOECD Factbook 2008 is the fourth edition of a comprehensive and dynamic statistical annual from the OECD. More than 100 indicators cover a wide range of areas: economy, population, globalisation, energy, labour, science and technology, environment, education, public finance, and quality of life.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2007-04-02
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9264084843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOECD Factbook 2007 is the third edition of a comprehensive and dynamic new statistical publication from the OECD. More than 100 indicators cover a wide range of subject areas.
Author: Katharina Fricke
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-12-12
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 3319016105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocated in a narrow grassland corridor between the semi-desert and a mountain range in Northwest China, the research area Urumqi Region is despite its semi-arid climate in a relatively favourable hydrological situation. The nearby mountains provide water for settlements and agriculture, making human development possible in the first place. Due to the development of agriculture, population and economy during the last sixty years and the increasing water consumption, a demand- and population-driven water scarcity exists today and is expected to aggravate. At the same time, the effects of climate change and land use transformations on the hydrological system and the water availability are uncertain. This study evaluates the recent and future situation by combining a hydrological water balance model for the simulation of the water supply based on scenarios of climate and land use change with a socio-economic model for projecting the future water demand including predicted growth of population and economy.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2008-11-07
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9264053719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReviews Chinese government efforts to encourage responsible business conduct against the backdrop of recent regulatory changes and China's increasing outward investment.
Author: Min Jiang
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-09-27
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 3319670875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a first comprehensive legal examination of water rights arrangements and water rights trading in China. Although recent water reform in China has made substantial progress in policy development and practice, how its legal and institutional framework facilitates or hinders the application of tradable water rights remains less addressed in the existing scholarship. Against the backdrop of China’s water reform and the wider international debate in water governance, this book aims to provide an innovative approach to the complex issue of water governance by critically analysing the recent legal and policy developments in China towards tradable water rights. It examines the deficiencies of the current systems for water rights arrangements and trading, explores how China may learn from and build on the international trends in water rights trading practice (mainly Australia and the US), and proposes legal and policy frameworks for defining and administering tradable water rights in China that underpin sustainable water use in the face of exacerbated water scarcity, variability, and uncertainty. All in all, the book proposes pragmatic strategies for China’s water law and policy reform to move towards tradable water rights, which encompasses a comprehensive prescription from initialising and defining tradable water rights to administering water rights and trading. By reflecting on the deepening water reforms in both China and other jurisdictions, the book aims to contribute to the international water governance debate by exploring from a legal and policy perspective, how China, comparative to other cases around the world, can find a balanced combination of water allocation mechanisms to address its water challenges. It is hoped that the observations and proposed implications for China’s water reform will contribute to developing a better understanding of the way in which experiences in water markets can be shared from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
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Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Published: 2014-04-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789264208285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report is the first OECD review of Colombia's environmental performance. It evaluates progress towards sustainable development and green growth, with a focus on waste and chemicals management and policies that promote more effective and efficient protection and sustainable use of biodiversity.
Author: MISTRA MISTRA
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2015-05-10
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 0639995675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rise and Decline and Rise of China: Searching for an Organising Philosophy represents a new and promising approach to Africa/China relations. What is most impressive is that it is an encounter between African and Chinese thought, but this encounter is not just a set of stale comparisons of philosophical beliefs. This study places the concepts and attitudes in both China and Africa in their socio-political contexts, in an attempt to provide a sophisticated, sensitive, and usable history. This attempt yields dividends, especially for the primary audience of Africans, as it gives a way of learning from the vast history of Chinese experience without reducing African experience to insignificance or irrelevance (as has happened so often in dialogues between Africa and the West). This book will be of interest to anyone from within Africa interested in engaging with China as a complex and nuanced place, a place of challenge, creativity, and opportunity.
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Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0821378252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report reviews China's water scarcity situation, assesses the policy and institutional requirements for addressing it, and recommends key areas for strengthening and reform. It is a synthesis of the main findings and recommendations from analytical work and case studies prepared under the World Bank Analytical and Advisory Assistance (AAA) program entitled 'Addressing China's Water Scarcity: from Analysis to Action.' These studies focus on several strategically important thematic areas for China where additional research was needed, as identified by the research team and advisory group based on a review of pressing issues. These areas are governance, water rights, pricing, ecological compensation, pollution control, and emergency response. The approach has been to evaluate Chinese and international experience to identify policy and institutional factors that have proven effective in promoting the adoption of water conservation and pollution reduction technologies. The research was based on literature reviews, qualitative and quantitative policy analyses, household surveys, field trips, and case studies to develop feasible recommendations for a plan of action based on realities on the ground.
