Equity, development and citizenship: abridged edition

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The sustainability of development in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges and opportunities

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Sustainable bioenergy: a framework for decision makers

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Innovating, gaining market share and fostering social inclusion: success stories in SME development

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Structural change for equality: an integrated approach to development. Thirty-four session of ECLAC

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Proposed regional agenda on population and development for Latin America and the Caribbean beyond 2014

The document revisits, broadens and updates the discussions contained in ECLAC documents Input for the preparation of a regional agenda for the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development: towards 2014 and beyond (LC/L.3219(CEP.2010/4)), of 2010, and Reflections on the population and development agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean beyond 2014 (LC/L.3481(CEP.2/5)), of 2012..

Climate Change and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Overview 2009

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The contribution of biofuels to the sustainability of development in Latin America and the Caribbean

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The 2004 hurricanes in the Caribbean and the tsunami in the Indian Ocean: lessons and policy challenges for development and disaster reduction

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Gender, the environment and the sustainability of development

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Water governance for development and sustainability

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The biodiesel market and public policy: a comparative analysis of Argentina and Brazil

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Sustainable urban energy planning: The case study of a tropical city

The urbanization of modern societies has imposed to the planners and decision-makers a more precise attention to facts not considered before. Several aspects, such as the energy availability and the deleterious effect of pollution on the populations, must be considered in the policy decisions of cities urbanization. The current paradigm presents centralized power stations supplying a city, and a combination of technologies may compose the energy mix of a country, such as thermal power plants, hydroelectric plants, wind systems and solar-based systems, with their corresponding emission pattern. A goal programming multi-objective optimization model is presented for the electric expansion analysis of a tropical city, and also a case study for the city of Guaratinguetá, Brazil, considering a particular wind and solar radiation patterns established according to actual data and modeled via the time series analysis method. Scenarios are proposed and the results of single environmental objective, single economic objective and goal programming multi-objective modeling are discussed. The consequences of each dispatch decision, which considers pollutant emission exportation to the neighborhood or the need of supplementing electricity by purchasing it from the public electric power grid, are discussed. The results revealed energetic dispatch for the alternatives studied and the optimum environmental and economic solution was obtained. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.

Productive development in open economies

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Structural change for equality: an integrated approach to development. Thirty-four session of ECLAC. Summary

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