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118 Strahan, op. cit. note 117; Emmet Curley, Mainstream Renewable Power, дискуссия с Дж. Мэттью Роуни. Earth Policy Institute, 2 июля 2009 г.; The ABB Group, “The NorNed HVDC Link” – см.: abb.com, обновлено 28 мая 2009 г.

119 DESERTEC Foundation, “12 Companies Plan Establishment of a Desertec Industrial Initative”, press release (Munich: 13 July 2009); данные о мощности потенциальных генерирующих мощностей – оценка автора, основанная на заявленной Инициативой цели удовлетворить потребности стран-производителей и 15% потребностей Европы в электричестве к 2050 г.; цель сформулирована в публикации IEA, op. cit. note 100, pp. 506–507; коэффициент использования мощностей взят из публикации: DOE, NREL, op. cit. note 1.

120 Письмо, посланное электронной почтой бывшим старшим экономистом Совета по качеству окружающей среды при Белом доме Эдвином Кларком автору 25 июля 2001 г. Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, “Economic Incentives in a New Climate Agreement” – материал подготовлен для конференции «Диалог по проблемам климата», состоявшейся в Копенгагене, Дания, 7–8 мая 2008 г.

121 Kate Galbraith, “Europe’s Way of Encouraging Solar Power Arrives in the U. S.”, New York Times , 12 March 2009; Karlynn Cory, Toby Couture, and Claire Kreycik , Feed-in Tariff Policy: Design, Implementation, and RPS Policy Interactions (Golden, CO: NREL, March 2009), p. 1; REN21, op. cit. note 50, p. 23; электронные базы данных State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency, “Rules, Regulations & Policies for Renewable Energy” (материал обновлен в апреле 2009 г.) и “Federal Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency (материал обновлен 19 февраля 2009 г.) – см.: www.dsireusa.org.

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1 UN. Population Division, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2007 Revision Population Database, электронная база данных – см.: esa.un.org/ unup, последнее обновление в 2008 г.

2 Данные о городском населении в 1900 г. взяты из статьи: Mario Polase, “Urbanization and Development”, Development Express, no. 4, 1997; U.N. Population Division, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2007 Revision (New York: February 2008).

3 Molly O’Meara, Reinventing Cities for People and the Planet, Worldwatch Paper 147 (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, June 1999), pp. 14–15; U.N. Population Division, op. cit. note 2, pp. 8–10; U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision Population Database, электронная база данных – см.: esa.un.org/unpp, последнее обновление 11 March 2009.

4 Christopher Flavin, “Hearing on Asia’s Environmental Challenges: Testimony of Christopher Flavin”, Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC, 22 September 2004; Subir Bhaumik, “Air Pollution Suffocates Calcutta”, BBC News, 3 May 2007; David Schrank and Tim Lomax, 2007 Urban Mobility Report (College Station, TX: Texas Transportation Institute, September 2007), p. 1.

5 Francesca Lyman, “Twelve Gates to the City: A Dozen Ways to Build Strong, Livable, and Sustainable Cities”, Words and Pictures Magazine, Issue 5, 2007; Lisa Jones, “A Tale of Two Mayors: The Improbable Story of How Bogota, Colombia, Became Somewhere You Might Actually Want To Live”, Grist Magazine, 4 April 2002.

6 Claudia Nanninga, “Energy Efficient Transport – A Solution for China”, Voices of Grassroots, November 2004; Enrique Peñalosa, “Parks for Livable Cities: Lessons from a Radical Mayor”, программная речь в the Urban Parks Institute’s Great Parks/Great Cities Conference, Chicago, 30 July 2001; Susan Ives, “The Politics of Happiness”, Trust for Public Land, 9 August 2002; Jones, op. cit. note 5.

7 Peñalosa, op. cit. note 6.

8 Lara de Lacerda Santos Rodrigues, Curitiba City Government, to J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute, 24 July 2009.

9 O’Meara, op. cit. note 3.

10 Данные по Лос-Анджелесу взяты из книги: Sandra Postel, Last Oasis, rev. ed. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997), p. 20; Joel Simon, Endangered Mexico (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997); Chinese Ministry of Water Resources, Country Report of the People’s Republic of China (Marseilles, France: World Water Council, 2003), pp. 60–61.

11 U.S. Depar tment of Agriculture, Foreign Ag r icultural Ser vice, Grain: World Markets and Trade and Oilseeds: World Markets and Trade (Washington, DC: various issues).

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