Worldwide, hydropower is a crucial power supply option for several reasons. First, it is a renewable energy resource that can contribute to sustainable development by generating local, typically inexpensive...
The World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the United Nations Environment Program, act as implementing agencies of the Global Environment Facility. The World Bank's role is to develop...
This study looks at the role of agriculture in the decline of biodiversity. It first looks at the conflicts and complementaries between agriculture and biodiversity, touching on global trends, interactions...
This study examines natural capital depletion in Ecuador from 1971 to 1990, corresponding with an oil boom in the 1970s followed by economic stagnation in the 1980s. Two natural resource accounting (NRA)...