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Ten years ago, there was hardly any environmental enforcement by civil society or by the markets in China. In 1999–2000, the World Bank collaborated on a pilot programme with the Chinese Academy of…
23 January 2010 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaThis study evaluates the labor response of rural households participating in the Grain-for-Green program in China, the largest payments for ecosystem services program in the developing world. Using a…
21 January 2010 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaThe purposes of placing sensors in water distribution systems vary from complying with water quality regulations, monitoring accidental contamination events, and detecting intentional contamination…
11 August 2009 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaWe estimate productivity growth for 33 industries covering the entire Chinese economy using a time series of input-output tables covering 1982-2000. Capital input is measured using detailed investment…
11 August 2009 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaThis article describes a multidisciplinary study of market-based policies for controlling air pollution in China. While previous studies have examined the costs and benefits of pollution control…
11 August 2009 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaAir pollution in urban China is increasingly attributed to dispersed sources such as motor vehicles and construction sites, over which environmental protection bureaus (EPBs) share jurisdiction with…
11 August 2009 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaChina's rapid economic growth has been accompanied by a high level of environmental degradation. One of the major sources of health and ecosystem damages is sulfur dioxide (SO2). Reducing SO2…
11 August 2009 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaThe design of a sensor-placement scheme capable of detecting all possible contamination events for a water distribution system before consumers are put at risk is essentially impossible given current…
15 January 2010 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaWith decentralization experiments occurring in the Chinese forestry sector, the authors used a survey-based choice experiment to investigate farmers’ preferences for various property-rights attributes…
22 December 2008 | EfD Discussion Paper | China, Sweden