Green Growth in the Czech Republic: Selected indicators provides a bird’s-eye view of the issue of green growth in the Czech Republic based on the total of 27 indicators. Indicators were picked with regards both to national conditions and data availability.
The primary target audience of the book comprises of...
River Management Fund for the Four Major River Systems introduces River Management Funds (RMFs) that Korean Government has implemented to improve the water quality of four major river system which provides many tangible and/ or intangible benefits to the society in Korea. To ensure more systematic efforts for improving water quality, the...
As a resource-poor and heavy energy-using society, Korea faces serious environmental, economic and social threats. Therefore, in order to transform the mass production-oriented and mass waste-producing economic Structure into a much more sustainable and efficient resource-circulating one at a fundamental level, Korea enacted the Framework Act on Resource Circulation (FARC). ...
With rapid urbanization and rising income level, the total waste volume in Korea has increased at an unprecedented rate. As landfill and incineration could no longer handle all the wastes being generated, the Korean Government finally introduced the Volume-Based Waste Fee (VBWF) for garbage disposal in 1995, with the goals...
As Korean consumers are becoming aware of the seriousness of environmental degradation, a growing number of Korean consumers are beginning to consider eco-friendliness as an important factor in purchasing products, alongside prices, quality and designs. The government of Korea thus introduced an Environmental labelling for consumers to identify and select eco-friendly...
This A National Green Growth Plan for Jordan (NGGP) applies green growth to Jordan as a practical approach that builds upon existing government strategies, primarily Vision 2025, and demonstrates pathways to achieving them in a sustainable way. This is reflected by a focus on shifting existing interventions towards implementation, defining not “what should be done” but rather...