Going Green: Why Asia is Moving Toward a Green Model of Economic Growth
Asian Development Bank | February 2012
Abstract
This edition of Development Asia explores the concept of green growth: the embracing of environmentally sound and sustainable policies with the need to maintain high economic growth. It features an exclusive interview with leading expert Ashok Khosla, who takes a hard look at the promises and failings of green growth. In other stories, we look at pioneering efforts to deliver medicine through a soda company's distribution network.
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Asian Development Bank. 2012. Going Green: Why Asia is Moving Toward a Green Model of Economic Growth. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1337. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
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Keywords
Work Environment
Regulatory Environments
Institutional Environment Assessment
Global Environment
Environmentally Sustainable Development
Environmentally Damaging Subsidies
Environmental Strategy
Environmental Sustainability
Environment and Pollution Prevention
Environmental Action Plans
Environmental Assessment
Environmental Cleanup
Environmental Compliance
Environmental Effects
Environmental Guidelines
Environmental Health Hazards
Municipal government
Alternative energy development
Geothermal Energy
Renewable Energy
Pollution Indexes
Green Revolution
Polluter Pays Principle
Decontamination
Environmental Statistics
Ecosystems
Ecology
Pollution Control
Coastal pollution
Coasts
Lakes
Rivers
Inland Water transport
International rivers
international lakes
Sewage management
Waste Disposal
Water pollutants
Public Law
Fishery Law
Marine Pollution
River Pollution
Industrial Pollution
Thermal Pollution
Thermal Pollution
Hydroelectric power
Energy technology
Alternative energy program
Alternative energy technology
Energy Sources
Air quality indexes
Environmental indexes
Sanitation
Green technology
Oil spills prevention
Water quality
Prevention of pollution
Water resources development
Water quality trading
Pollution
Experimental watershed areas
Lakes monitoring
Floodplains monitoring
Pollution measurement
Liability for water pollution damages
Tide pool ecology
Reef ecology
Ocean bottom ecology
Marine riparian ecology
Marine radioecology
Marine productivity
Marine microbial ecology
Marine habitats
Marine chemical ecology
Aquatic ecology
Water pollution
Renewable energy source
Natural resource
Hybrid power
Renewable energy resource
Conservation of natural resources
Green technology
Air pollution potential
Pollution control industry
Energy conservation
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