environmental consequence

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Majorities tend to be aware of environmental degradation costs now and in the future, but only small minorities favor policies based solely on environmental consequences.
Though the top richest and bottom poorest people are both the main origins of environmental degradation, the developing countries often bear the worst environmental consequences.
This pattern had spatial and environmental consequences: the bid to achieve accommodation implied a desire to move away from poorer segregated areas to wealthier ones.
Environmental consequences of increasing production: some current perspectives.
The productivity of grasslands and the environmental consequences are often influenced in the first instance by the attitudes of farmers.
All have a strong professional concern with the environmental consequences of economic activity, and a deep understanding of the process of economic development.
Some progress has been made in tracing the environmental consequences of sectoral policies involving, for example, energy, water or agricultural pricing.
This approach has the ability to affect environmental externalities directly by bringing the environmental consequences of decisions to bear on the actors making the decisions.
I begin by developing a simple model in which trade liberalization has environmental consequences.
This raises serious questions about the long-term sustainability of both the systems and the supporting natural resource bases, as well as the possible environmental consequences.
Over-irrigation can lead to excessive runoff and drainage, with associated negative environmental consequences.
As domestic trade restrictions are relaxed, domestic prices will respond and the decisions made will have their attended environmental consequences.
If so, is it possible to adjust the timing and sequencing of macroeconomic and sectoral policy tools, to avoid the worst environmental consequences?
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