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International Experiences of Water Transfers: Relevance to India [PDF]

, 2008
Water transfer has and continues to be a complementary water management strategy for promoting socioeconomic development in water-scarce regions. Over 2,500 years ago, the Babylonians, the Roman Empire and the Chinese constructed extensive canal networks,
Francis Gichuki, Peter G. McCornick
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Protection efficacy of national wetland reserves in China [PDF]

, 2012
Wetlands have the most abundant biodiversity, the highest carbon sequestration capacity, and the highest values for ecological services per unit area, of all the world's ecosystems.
HaiYing Zhang, Peng Gong, YaoMin Zheng, ZhenGuo Niu   +3 more
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Impact of global warming on Chinese wheat productivity: [PDF]

"Climate change continues to have major impact on crop productivity all over the world. While many researchers have evaluated the possible impact of global warming on crop yields using mainly indirect crop simulation models, there are relatively few ...
Fang, Cheng, Rosegrant, Mark W., Wood, Stanley, You, Liangzhi   +3 more
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Local governance and public goods provision in rural China: [PDF]

In developing countries, identifying the most effective community-level governance structure is a key issue and, increasingly, empirical evaluation of the effects of democratization on the provision of local public goods is needed. Since the early 1990s,
Fan, Shenggen, Huang, Jikun, Zhang, Linxiu, Zhang, Xiaobo   +3 more
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The only known cyclopygid–‘atheloptic’ trilobite fauna from North America: the upper Ordovician fauna of the Pyle Mountain Argillite and its palaeoenvironmental significance [PDF]

, 2012
The trilobite fauna of the upper Ordovician (middle Katian) Pyle Mountain Argillite comprises a mixture of abundant mesopelagic cyclopygids and other pelagic taxa and a benthic fauna dominated by trilobites lacking eyes.
Adrain, ALAN W. OWEN, Angelin, Apollonov, Barrande, Bartholomew, Bergström, Beyrich, Boucot, Bruton, Brøgger, Budil, Cocks, Cocks, Cooper, Dalman, DAVID L. BRUTON, Dean, Dean, Dean, Fortey, Fortey, Fortey, Fortey, Fortey, Fortey, Gürich, Hammann, Hammann, Hammann, Hansen, Hawle, Horný, Hörbinger, Ingham, Ingham, Ingham, Jaekel, Jell, Ji, Kaesler, Kielan, Kielan, Kobaysahi, Kolobova, Kozák, Krueger, Kutorga, Lane, Lespérance, Lespérance, Linnarsson, Lu, Lu, M'Coy, Marek, Marek, McCormick, Morris, Nicholson, Nicholson, Nielsen, Nielsen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Parkes, Pek, Pek, Prantl, Price, Přibyl, Raymond, Reed, Reed, Reed, Reed, Repina, Rong, Ross, Roy, Salter, Schrank, Shaw, Shaw, Sheehan, Shergold, Shergold, Thomas, Volborth, Warburg, Weir, Whittard, Whittard, Whittington, Whittington, Whittington, Whittington, Whittington, Whittington, Whittington, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou, Šnajdr   +112 more
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Improving performance and financial viability of irrigation systems in India and China [PDF]

Irrigation systems / Groundwater irrigation / Energy / Cost recovery / India ...
International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
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Environmental performance rating and disclosure - China's green-watch program [PDF]

This paper describes a new incentive-based pollution control program in China in which the environmental performance of firms is rated and reported to the public.
Dong Cao, Genfa Lu, Hua Wang, Jinnan Wang, Jun Bi, Wheeler, David, Yuan Wang   +6 more
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Interactions between Resource Scarcity and Trade Policy: The Potential Effects of Water Scarcity on China’s Agricultural Economy under the Current TRQ Regime [PDF]

International Relations/Trade, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Hansen, James M., Lohmar, Bryan
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Global Coal Risk Assessment: Data Analysis and Market Research [PDF]

, 2012
Coal-fired power plants are the largest contributor to the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. In 2010, 61 countries produced coal and 104 countries consumed it.
Ailun Yang, Yiyun Cui
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The Distribution of Soybean Production and Resources in China [PDF]

, 2001
Originating text in Chinese.Citation: Forecast Information Net For Chinese Agricultural Products. (2001). The Distribution of Soybean Production and Resources in China.
Forecast Information Net For Chinese Agricultural Products
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