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  • Climate change and agriculture : a review of impacts and adaptations (English)

    The vulnerability of the agricultural sector to both climate change and variability is well established in the literature. The general consensus is that changes in temperature and precipitation will result...

    Document Type: Environment Working Paper Report No.: 78739 Document Date: June 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kurukulasuriya,Pradeep H.,Rosenthal,Shane J.

  • Biodiversity, ecosystem services, and climate change : the economic problem (English)

    Climate change is both a cause and an effect of biodiversity change. Along with anthropogenic dispersion, climate change is the main driver of change in the geographical distribution of both beneficial...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 58165 Document Date: November 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Perrings,Charles Aubrey

  • Environmental flows in water resources policies, plans, and projects : case studies (English)

    The overall goal of this report and the accompanying report summarizing the findings and recommendations, both based on the economic and sector work (ESW), is to advance the understanding and integration...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 48871 Document Date: April 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hirji,Rafik Fatehali, Davis, Richard

  • Transitioning to climate resilient development : perspectives from communities in Peru (English)

    The livelihoods of communities in rural areas of Peru are predominantly dependent on climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture. Given their close connection with the environment, the understanding...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 44945 Document Date: May 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sperling,Frank, Validivia, Corinne, Quiroz, Roberto, Valdivia, Roberto,Angulo Villareal,Lenkiza E.,Seimon,Anton,Noble,Ian Roy

  • Mainstreaming environment in the implementation of PRSPs in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)

    The current assessment builds on previously published reviews of poverty reduction strategy programs (PRSPs), and is the sixth report in a series. This paper aims at presenting a clearer picture of how...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 40407 Document Date: May 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kishore,Sunanda

  • Environment in 2005 country assistance strategies (English)

    Country Assistance Strategies (CASs) have been periodically reviewed from a variety of different perspectives. This review assesses how environment is integrated in CASs for 2005 and also compares the...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 38176 Document Date: November 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kishore,Sunanda

  • Assessing the economic value of ecosystem conservation (English)

    This paper seeks to clarify how valuation should be conducted to answer specific environmental policy questions. In particular, it looks at how valuation should be used to examine four distinct aspects...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 30887 Document Date: October 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Bishop, Joshua T.,Pagiola,Stefano P.,Ritter,Konrad Von

  • Country assistance strategies and the environment (English)

    This report is the outcome of a Country Assistance Strategy and Environment program that was started and aimed to identify practical constraints to incorporating environmental concerns into CASs and to...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 22746 Document Date: July 31, 2001 Disclosure Status: Author: Shyamsundar, Priya,Hamilton, Kirk,Segnestam, Lis

  • Climate information and forecasting for development : lessons from the 1997/98 El Nino (English)

    Human welfare and development are heavily influenced by climatic factors. As many as 95 percent of all disaster-related casualties occur in developing countries, and after an event the recovery often takes...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 21887 Document Date: December 31, 2000 Disclosure Status: Author: Van Aalst,Maarten K,Fankhauser,Samuel,Kane, Sally M.,Sponberg, Kelly

  • Genuine saving as a sustainability indicator (English)

    Growth theory provides the intellectual underpinning for expanded national accounting and, through the measure of genuine saving, an indicator of when economies are on an unsustainable development path...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 22744 Document Date: October 31, 2000 Disclosure Status: Author: Hamilton,Kirk E.