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by Paul Faeth - May 2000In the United States today, almost 3,400 waterways are impaired by nutrient pollution. The Clean Water Act and other federal and state programs have helped to improve water quality, but much remains to be done to meet national goals.
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by Robert Repetto and Duncan Austin - March 2000Today's investors and companies are increasingly aware of the influence of environmental issues on the performance of their assets and businesses.
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by Crescencia Maurer - December 1999WRI's Institutions and Governance Program has completed an asessment of national councils for sustainable development (NCSDs).
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by Richard Matthew and George Shambaugh (Georgetown University) - January 1998Terms of reference
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by Duncan Austin - November 1997This report explains why delaying policy implementation threatens to make climate protection more, not less, costly while also postponing potential benefits from early action.
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by Roger Dower, Daryl Ditz, Paul Faeth, Nels Johnson, Keith Kozloff and James J. MacKenzie. Introduction by Walter V. Reid and Roger Dower. Foreword by Jonathan Lash. - October 1997Spells out a realistic and workable plan that ensures a healthy stock of environmental and natural resources assets. Examine environmental performance and trends in agriculture, electricity generation, transportation, and pulp and paper manufacturing.
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by James J. MacKenzie - September 1997The report serves as a guide to sorting out the benefits of controlling greenhouse gas emissions, not only in reducing the risks of global warming, but in cutting air pollution and enhancing national security as well.
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by Allen Hammond, Albert Adriaanse, Stefan Bringezu, Yuichi Moriguchi, Eric Rodenburg, Donald Rogich and Helmut Schütz - April 1997Currently, countries measure their economic growth and performance through the System of National Accounts (SNA). These financial accounts measure the total economic transactions in an economy.
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by Dirk Bryant and Daniel Nielsen and Laura Tangley - March 1997 publication
by Elizabeth Cook and Case study contributors: Reynaldo Forte, J. Andrew Hoerner, Jeffrey D. Kimes, David Lee, Robert Livernash, David Malakoff, Sandra Phillips, Stephen R. Seidel, and Pamela Wexler - November 1996This report addresses a profoundly important question: given hard evidence that human activity is damaging the atmosphere, can we alter deeply embedded economic habits to forestall it? In at least one case -- the phase-out of ozone-depleting substances -- the answer is yes.
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by Edited by Lori Ann Thrupp - September 1996The world's farmers face a major challenge achieving food security for 5.7 billion people while producing crops sustainably.
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by Paul Faeth - April 1995Although the notion of sustainable agriculture is attracting considerable interest, little information has been available for evaluating current levels of agricultral sustainability in the United States or the policy options that will best promote it.
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by Charles V. Barber, Nels C. Johnson and Emmy Hafild - March 1994Tropical forests are vanishing at alarming rates throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and their many contributions to huan welfare are being undermined. Despite increased efforts to stem deforestation, recent findings indicate that the problem is getting worse.
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by Robert Repetto, Roger C. Dower, Robin Jenkins and Jacqueline Geoghegan - November 1992In this report, Repetto and co-authors estimate the economic gains from shifting a significant chunk of the tax burden from income, profits, and payrolls onto congestion, pollution, and waste generation.
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by Roger C. Dower and Mary Beth Zimmerman - August 1992Hundreds of billions of dollars are lost each year because the United States taxes economically productive resources such as capital and labor. Pollution taxes offer an alternative source of revenues that reduce these losses and reduce pollution.
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by James J. MacKenzie and Roger C. Dower and Donald D.T. Chen - June 1992U.S. overdependence on motor vehicles stems in large measure from the failure to make car and truck owners pay the full costs of driving. Highway users, for example, pay only a fraction of the actual costs of highway construction, repair, and a host of other motor-vehicle-related services.
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by Walter V. Reid and Mark C. Trexler - June 1991Say the words “extinction crisis,” and what most likely comes to mind first is a tropical forest in flames – an apt image when deforestation is the main force behind a species extinction rate unmatched in 65 million years.
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by Jim MacKenzie and Mohamed T. El-Ashry - September 1988This report summarizes forest and crop damage in the United States and Europe, examines the evidence connecting it to air pollution, and recommends that emissions of nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, and hydrocarbons be significantly reduced and non-fossil energy sources introduced.