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  • Ukraine - Country environmental analysis (English)

    The objective of the Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) is to assess the adequacy and performance of the policy, legal, and institutional framework for environmental management in Ukraine, in light of...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: ACS16696 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Al-Naber,Helena Munir Freih,Slenzak,Alexei,Stranadko,Natalia,Tykhyy,Volodymyr,Sulukhia,Tamar,Lvovsky,Kseniya,Fan,Qimiao,Ahmed,Kulsum

  • Environment matters at the World Bank - annual review 2003 (English)

    This issue, which serves as the annual review on the environment, looks at the Bank's work from July 2002 through June 2003, dedicated this year to Water and the Environment, on the occasion of the Fifth...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 27101 Document Date: June 30, 2003 Disclosure Status: Author: Iljasz-Vazquez, Ede Jorge [editor],Georgieva,Kristalina I.,Brende, Borge,Kasrils, Ronnie, Steiner, Achim, Rosengrant, Mark W., von Braun, Joachim,Briscoe,John,Hatziolos,Marea Eleni,Albert,Jocelyne, Mackinnon, Kathy,Mercier,Jean-Roger Roger,Acharya,Anjali, Kiss, Agi,Dore,Giovanna,Gautam,Surhid P.,Holt,Jane E.,Heuckroth,Kimberly Tricia,Armstrong,Angela G.,Brandriss,Peter M.,Arif,Sherif Kamel F.,Sarraf,Maria,Harshadeep,Nagaraja Rao,Lvovsky,Kseniya,Pastuszek Iii,Harry P.

  • Environment, health and poverty (English)

    Recognition that the environment in which people live - from the household to the community to the global level - significantly affects their health, has only recently suggested the global burden of disease...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 23953 Document Date: January 31, 2002 Disclosure Status: Author: Lvovsky,Kseniya

  • Transport Fuel, Taxes, and Urban Air Quality (English)

    In developing country cities, fuel use for transport is a growing contributor to air pollution and environmental health risks. One way of applying the polluter pays principle to transport is to adjust...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 184190 Document Date: December 31, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gwilliam,Kenneth M.,Bacon,Robert W.,Kojima,Masami,Lvovsky,Kseniya

  • Health and environment (English)

    This paper highlights links between environment, health, and poverty, and discusses implications for the Bank strategy to address environmental health concerns. It shows that environmental risks have a...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 24096 Document Date: October 31, 2001 Disclosure Status: Author: Lvovsky,Kseniya

  • Environmental challenges of fuel use (English)

    Among the potential effects of fossil fuel combustion are urban air pollution, acid rain, and changes in global climate. A study of six cities in developing countries and of an industrial area in Poland...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 20760 Document Date: December 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Author: Lvovsky,Kseniya,Hughes,Gordon A.

  • Pollution prevention and abatement handbook 1998 : toward cleaner production (English)

    The handbook has been prepared to update and replace the "1988 Environmental Guidelines." The Handbook is specifically designed to be used in the context of the World Bank Group's environmental policies...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 19128 Document Date: April 1, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ackermann,Richard O.,Aggarwal,Sanjeev,Dixon,John Richard,Fitzgerald,Arthur D.,Hanrahan,David C.,Hughes,Gordon A.,Kunte,Arundhati,Lovei,Magda,Lvovsky,Kseniya,Somani,Anil H.

  • Pollution prevention and abatement handbook 1998 : toward cleaner production (Chinese)

    The handbook has been prepared to update and replace the "1988 Environmental Guidelines." The Handbook is specifically designed to be used in the context of the World Bank Group's environmental policies...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 19128 Document Date: April 1, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ackermann,Richard O.,Aggarwal,Sanjeev,Dixon,John Richard,Fitzgerald,Arthur D.,Hanrahan,David C.,Hughes,Gordon A.,Kunte,Arundhati,Lovei,Magda,Lvovsky,Kseniya,Somani,Anil H.

  • Better environmental decisionmaking : the DSS/IPC (English)

    Among the tools available for decisionmakers for assessing environmental problems and arriving at cost-effective solutions is the Decision Support System for Integrated Pollution Control (DSS/IPC). This...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 20761 Document Date: March 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lvovsky,Kseniya

  • Can the environment wait : priorities for East Asia (English)

    This report answers the question, Does paying too much attention to environmental problems slow economic growth and industrialization? Although the Asia/Pacific region may say yes and the experience of...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17298 Document Date: November 30, 1997 Disclosure Status: Author: Hughes,Gordon A.,Ackermann,Richard O.,Keene,Michelle L.,Lvovsky,Kseniya,Nielsen, Tine

  • Effective pollution charges : lessons of worldwide experience (English)

    Pollution charges are becoming an increasingly popular instrument for environmental policy. Currently, they are widely applied in OECD countries, play a key role among environmental policy instruments...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 18288 Document Date: December 31, 1996 Disclosure Status: Author: Lvovsky,Kseniya