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  1. Chapter

    Border Inspection and Trade Diversion: Risk Reduction vs. Risk Substitution

    International trade increasingly brings previously separated geographical regions into contact with one another and increases the frequency of those contacts. These trends bring many benefits to the trading pa...

    Qiong Wang, Eli P. Fenichel in Health and Animal Agriculture in Developin… (2012)

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    Basic Thinking and Policy & Suggestion to Enhance GEC

    Under the multiple pressures of traditional development pattern frustration, economic restructuring, industrial technology innovation, etc., the strong will for worldwide economic transition and economic resur...

    Li Jian**, Li Minrong, Wang **nan in Report on Global Environmental Competitive… (2014)

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    Main GEC Research Contents

    Environment and economy are two factors of a system. Between the two there is a kind of both opposition and unity dialectical relations. On the one hand, the environment and the economy are interdependent and ...

    Li Jian**, Li Minrong, Wang **nan in Report on Global Environmental Competitive… (2014)

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    Enlightenment from the Results of GEC Evaluation

    Since the 1970s, with the increasingly prominent of population growth, resource shortages, energy crisis, food security, environmental pollution, soil degradation, biodiversity destruction and other issues, th...

    Li Jian**, Li Minrong, Wang **nan in Report on Global Environmental Competitive… (2014)

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    Global Environmental Issues and Human Wellbeing

    Environment is the foundation and support of human existence and survival and the guarantee of sustainable human development; environmental protection has undoubtedly become a common understanding and developm...

    Li Jian**, Li Minrong, Wang **nan in Report on Global Environmental Competitive… (2014)

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    Overall Evaluation and Comparative Analysis on GEC

    What the tide of globalization brings is unprecedented impact on humankind by global environmental problems and these problems have become the economic, political and cultural problems that restrict human exis...

    Li Jian**, Li Minrong, Wang **nan in Report on Global Environmental Competitive… (2014)

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    Theoretical and Reality Basis of GEC Research

    Looking at environment, economy and social development, to promote sustainable development through global partnership must enhance environmental competitiveness to solve the global ecological environmental cri...

    Li Jian**, Li Minrong, Wang **nan in Report on Global Environmental Competitive… (2014)

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    Regional Analysis of GEC

    The GEC scores and rankings of the countries obtained through non-dimensional processing with threshold method and weighted summing only reflect the status of environmental competitiveness of single country. T...

    Li Jian**, Li Minrong, Wang **nan in Report on Global Environmental Competitive… (2014)

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    Technical Roadmap of GEC Evaluation & Analysis

    GEC research is a whole new area; there is neither mature research model or methodology, nor existing research contents for reference. Therefore, such researches need to first summarize the related previous re...

    Li Jian**, Li Minrong, Wang **nan in Report on Global Environmental Competitive… (2014)

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    A Survey of Community-Based Adaptation in Develo** Countries

    are now widely used in develo** countries to address impacts in vulnerable communities. There has been considerable growth in in peer-reviewed journals. There also exists a plethora of gray literature i...

    Md Rumi Shammin, Amy Wang, Maya Sosland in Climate Change and Community Resilience (2022)