Sentences with phrase «policy interventions affect»

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«Water pricing as an economic incentive for water conservation gained popularity in the 1990s as a policy intervention tool that could be used to affect the environmentally, socially, and economically efficient use of water,» he said.

Underlying factors affecting forest conversion include population growth, agricultural development, land tenure, governance of land - use changes, changing markets, technological improvements, and active policy interventions.

The fossil - fuel support policies that governments use include direct subsidies, intervention in markets in ways that affect costs or prices, assumption of a part of companies» financial risks, tax reductions or exemptions, and under — charging for the use of government — supplied goods, services or assets.

There is also limited knowledge about climate - related policy interventions that might affect future patterns of fossil - fuel production.

Finally, even if Ausubel is right and decarbonization magically jumps from 1 to 5 % / yr with no policy intervention other than R&D, that might not affect the marginal product of avoided carbon emissions much because the logarithmic concentration - forcing relationship offsets the ~ exponential forcing - damage relationship.

Just as earlier Indigenous health research was consistent with earlier policies of protection and biological assimilation, this research was consistent with prevailing ideas of cultural assimilation.7 The 1950s and 1960s also saw the rise of research written by those in the NT providing health care for Aboriginal people about the issues causing most Aboriginal ill health (not just affecting white health), along with descriptions of interventions for their control.7

Until we more clearly understand whether and how our interventions with parents affect children, the policy relevance of these programs will remain in question.