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This chapter focuses on relative use of market and non-market institutions, economic and environmental organizations, environmental agreements, laws and institutions; highlights issues of coordination with the objective of suggesting efficient design of institutions and policies that draw on synergies of economic and environmental assets. Also included are reorientation of institutions that can integrate policies for sustainable growth and development.
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Rao, P.K. (2010). Institutions and Policy Design. In: The Architecture of Green Economic Policies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05108-1_5
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