Sustainable Consumption And Production In South East Europe And Eastern Europe Caucasus And Central Asia

Author : European Environment Agency
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Consumption and Production in South East Europe and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia written by European Environment Agency and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: 1 Background, scope and methodology - 2 Broad trends in production and consumption - 3 Policies supporting SCP - 4 Industry - 5 Food - 6 Buildings - 7 Transport - 8 Waste - 9 Way forward - Annex 1 Responses to the questionnaire survey on policies on sustainable consumption and production

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Download or read book Sustainable consumption and production in South East Europe and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and central Asia : Joint UNEP-EEA report on the opportunities and lessons learned written by [Anonymus AC06427756] and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paving the Way for Sustainable Consumption and Production: The Marrakech Process Progress Report written by and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean-Louis Racine
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821385097
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harnessing Quality for Global Competitiveness in Eastern Europe and Central Asia written by Jean-Louis Racine and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standards are everywhere, yet go mostly unnoticed. They define how products, processes, and people interact, assessing these entities’ features and performance and signaling their level of quality and reliability. They can convey important benefits to trade, productivity, and technological progress and play an important role in the health and safety of individual consumers and the environment. Firms’ ability to produce competitive products depends on the availability of adequate quality-support services. A “national quality infrastructure” denotes the chain of public and private services (standardization, metrology, inspection, testing, certification, and accreditation) needed to ascertain that products and services introduced in the marketplace meet defined requirements, whether demanded by authorities or by consumers. In much of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, national quality infrastructure systems are underdeveloped and not harmonized with those of their trading partners. This imbalance increases trade costs, hinders local firms’ competitiveness, and weakens overall export performance. The objective of Harnessing Quality for Global Competitiveness in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is to highlight the need to reform and modernize the institutions in the region toward better quality and standards. The book ties in with much of the work done in the World Bank on the business environment, trade facilitation, economic diversification, and enterprise innovation. The countries in the region can improve this situation, revising mandatory standards, streamlining technical regulations, and harmonizing their national quality infrastructure with those of regional and international trade partners. Most governments will need to invest strategically in their national quality infrastructure, including pooling services with neighboring countries and stimulating local awareness and demand for quality. Specifically for the countries of the former Soviet Union, the restructuring process will need to improve governance, thus eliminating conflicts of interest and providing technically credible services to the economy.

Author : D. Sternad
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230314147
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Doing Business in South East Europe written by D. Sternad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive insight into a region which is characterized by rapid economic and social changes with a significant rise in foreign direct investments and privatization. Analysis covers political, legal, economic and social trends, and topics such as the influence of informal networks and corruption, as well as cultural diversity.

Author : William R. Sutton
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821397699
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking Beyond the Horizon written by William R. Sutton and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The risks and opportunities of climate change for agriculture can be effectively dealt only by aligning policies, developing institutional capabilities, and investing in infrastructure and farms, as per the experiences of Albania, FYR Macedonia, Moldova, and Uzbekistan.

Author : Klaus Bosselmann
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1933782560
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 3/10 written by Klaus Bosselmann and published by Berkshire Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Law and Politics of Sustainability explores efforts made to address pressing environmental concerns through legislation, conventions, directives, treaties, and protocols. Articles explain the mechanics of environmental law, the concepts that shape sustainable development, case studies and rulings that have set precedents, approaches to sustainable development taken by legal systems around the world, and more. Experts and scholars in the field raise provocative questions about the effectiveness of international law versus national law in protecting the environment, and about the effect of current laws on future generations. They analyze the successes and shortcomings of present legal instruments, corporate and public policies, social movements, and conceptual strategies, offering readers a preview of the steps necessary to develop laws and policies that will promote genuine sustainability.

Author : Grzegorz M. Królczyk
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030112748
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Production: Novel Trends in Energy, Environment and Material Systems written by Grzegorz M. Królczyk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights recent research on sustainable production. In today’s manufacturing industry, cleaner production has become a central goal. “Sustainable production” describes activities that pose no threat to future generations and are not pursued at their expense. In addition, sustainable production is a concept that can improve environmental performance and focuses on technical aspects that can be used to improve efficiency and productivity. Sustainable production is not limited to the manufacturing sector, but affects all production sectors including energy, environment, and material systems – all of which face significant challenges in connection with sustainability, e.g. efforts to reduce production’s impact on the environment and to manage health and safety impacts. Key means of reducing environmental pollution from manufacturing involve reducing the main resources used in production (metals used in the machining processes, fluids/oils in production, water, and energy).

Author : Maurizio Bussolo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464803536
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Golden Aging written by Maurizio Bussolo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compared to other regions, Europe and Central Asia are by far the oldest. Moreover, population aging is set to accelerate further over the coming decades as large segments turn old. Additionally, some countries such as Russia and certain Eastern European countries are facing a shrinkage of their population. Against this backdrop, this report investigates what stands in the way of societies reaping the full benefits of increased longevity--that is, longer lives and potentially prolonged payoffs from human capital--and what can help to mitigate the possible negative impacts of a smaller and older workforce. Beginning with a focus on demographic trends, the report puts the rapid decline in fertility and contrasting migration trends in the region in a historical perspective and looks forward to the varying paths that population change may follow in the region. Next, it examines the evidence on the likely impact of demographic change on growth and savings, the labor force, firm and economy-wide innovation, poverty and inequality, and intergenerational solidarity. Finally, the report goes beyond diagnostics and puts an emphasis on what we know regarding successful policy interventions, presenting evidence on what has and has not worked in the past.--Publisher description.

Author : Viktor Lagutov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400724624
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Security in Watersheds: The Sea of Azov written by Viktor Lagutov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watersheds, supplying crucial ecosystem services to humans, seem to be a logical territorial unit to integrate societal benefits and environmental needs in order to evaluate the sustainability of natural resource use patterns. Based on this belief the book is an attempt to initiate a comprehensive environmental security assessment in the basin of the Azov Sea, shared by Russia and Ukraine. Though the region provides a variety of essential services and plays a strategic role in national and international development plans, it has been excluded from most regional environmental discussions. At the same time there is an alarming degradation rate of basin freshwater ecosystems that has occurred due to overutilization of certain prioritized services (e.g. transportation). The collapse of neglected services (e.g. fishery and freshwater supply) poses serious threats to the national economies as well as the local population, and to mitigate these threats priority in water management should be given to securing sustainability of the regional freshwater ecosystems. In addition to the review of the current status of Azov ecosystem services, the authors analyze likely future availability and challenges. The relevant experience derived from basin management of the Black Sea and other similar basins is also discussed.