International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies http://www.ifrc.org/PageFiles/89755/Photos/307000-WDR-2011-FINAL-email-1.pdf In addition to disaster data (in the annex) this year’s report focuses on food insecurity, malnutrition and hunger-related humanitarian challenges. [H/T: Full Text Reports]
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Is Infrastructure Capital Productive? a Dynamic Heterogeneous Approach
World Bank / by Cesar Calderon, Enrique Moral-Benito and Luis Serven http://bit.ly/qeJZzh [Summary] This paper offers an empirical evaluation of the output contribution of infrastructure. Drawing from a large data set on infrastructure stocks covering 88 countries and spanning the years 1960-2000, and using a panel time-series approach, the paper estimates a long-run aggregate production … Continue reading »
The Combined Effect of the Obama EPA Rules
Economic Policy Institute / by Isaac Shapiro http://www.epi.org/publication/combined-effect-obama-epa-rules/ [Website] The Combined Effect of the Obama EPA Rules, the only comprehensive tally of the combined costs and benefits of the new major Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules, debunks arguments that their cumulative impact would harm the struggling economy. The paper, by Economic Policy Institute (EPI) Director … Continue reading »
2010 American Community Survey Single Year Estimates
US Census Bureau http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml [From Press Release] The U.S. Census Bureau today released findings from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS), the most relied-on source for up-to-date socioeconomic information every year. The release covers more than 40 topics, such as educational attainment, income, health insurance coverage, occupation, language spoken at home, nativity, ancestry and selected … Continue reading »
Nitrogen in Agricultural Systems: Implications for Conservation Policy
USDA Economic Research Service / by Marc Ribaudo, Jorge Delgado, LeRoy Hansen, Michael Livingston, Roberto Mosheim, and James Williamson http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR127/#2011-9-22 [Abstract] Nitrogen is an important agricultural input that is critical for crop production. However, the introduction of large amounts of nitrogen into the environment has a number of undesirable impacts on water, terrestrial, and atmospheric … Continue reading »
Long-term Trend in Global CO2 Emissions: 2011 Report
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency | Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) / by Jos G.J. Olivier, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Jeroen A.H.W. Peters, Julian Wilson http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/news_docs/C02%20Mondiaal_%20webdef_19sept.pdf [From Green Car Congress] After a decline in global CO2 emissions in 2009 of 1% (including a correction for the leap year 2008), … Continue reading »
Information Disclosure Strategies for Green Industries
Asian Development Bank http://www.adbi.org/files/2011.08.22.wp305.info.disclosure.strategies.green.industries.pdf [Website] Environmental information disclosure strategies, which involve corporate attempts to increase the availability of information on pollution and emissions, can become a basis for a new wave of environmental protection policy that follows and has the potential to complement traditional command and control and market-based approaches. Although a growing body of … Continue reading »
Technology Roadmap: Carbon Capture and Storage in Industrial Applications
International Energy Agency | UN Industrial Development Organization http://www.iea.org/Papers/roadmaps/ccs_industry.pdf [From Foreward] …This roadmap paves the way for low-carbon industrial growth in developed and developing countries by providing a vision of industrial CCS up to 2050. Its insights will help policy makers evaluate the benefits of CCS technology and hence make informed decisions. It also offers … Continue reading »
