Documents & Reports
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Mainstreaming environment in the energy sector - the case of the energy- environment review for Iran (English)
The energy-environment review (EER) for the Islamic Republic of Iran illustrates how placing environmental issues in the context of key economic indicators was useful to incorporate environmental considerations...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 38177 Document Date: December 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kobayashi,Hayato,Arif,Sherif Kamel F.,Loayza, Fernando
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Getting the most for the money - how public environmental expenditure reviews can help (English)
Public environmental expenditure reviews (PEERs) offer a way of systematically assessing the equity, efficiency, and effectiveness of public environmental spending. A PEER may be a stand-alone analysis...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 37955 Document Date: September 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Markandya, Anil , Hamilton, Kirk , Sanchez-Trian
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Using strategic environmental assessments for environmental mainstreaming in the water and sanitation sector - the cases of Argentina and Colombia (English)
Integration of environmental considerations into development planning has been carried out through project level environmental impact assessments (EIA), typically after many critical policy level decisions...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 37954 Document Date: May 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Enriquez,Santiago,Sanchez-Triana,Ernesto
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Mitigating drought - long-term planning to reduce vulnerability (English)
About 1.3 billion of the world's people live on fragile land-arid, semiarid, mountainous, or steep terrain (World Bank 2002). Such lands are often prone to drought, which can result in humanitarian, environmental...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 37952 Document Date: June 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Esikuri,Enos E.
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Strategic environmental assessment - concept and practice (English)
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a tool for including environmental considerations into policies, plans, and programs at the earliest stages of decisionmaking. SEA extends the application of...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 37953 Document Date: June 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahmed,Kulsum,Mercier,Jean-Roger Roger,Verheem, Rob
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Rethinking the World Bank's environmental portfolio distribution - adjusting for threats and country risk (English)
The World Bank's Environment Strategy has as one of its objectives, the improvement of the quality of life of the poor in developing countries. Of special concern are the health, livelihoods, and vulnerability...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 30894 Document Date: November 1, 2004 Author: Dasgupta,Susmita,Levine, Nancy [editor],Meisner,Craig M.,Wheeler, David
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Ensuring environmental sustainability : progress in Europe and Central Asia toward the environmental Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (English)
Millennium Development Goal 7, "ensuring environmental sustainability," has three targets and eight indicators (see table 1). The targets have to do with sustainable development, access to safe water and...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 37826 Document Date: June 1, 2004 Author: Markandya,Anil,Pedrozo, Suzette
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Assessing the costs of environmental degradation in the Middle East and North Africa Region (English)
This paper discusses the Cost of Environmental Degradation program, now under way in eight MNA countries. The program consists of a country study and a training course. The objectives of the program are...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 29863 Document Date: April 1, 2004 Author: Sarraf,Maria
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World Bank investments for the urban environment (English)
The cities of the developing world are the engines of economic growth, but they also face and cause multiple and pressing environmental issues. Those highlighted at the 1992 'Earth Summit' included water...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 53364 Document Date: October 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bigio,Anthony G.,Dahiya,Bharat
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Assessing environmental policy, regulatory and institutional capacity (English)
Development is often accompanied by environmental challenges pollution, the degradation of natural resources and ecosystems, the depletion of the ozone layer, and climate change, among others. These challenges...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 53363 Document Date: July 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lovei, Magda,Pillai,Poonam
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Persistent organic pollutants - a legacy of envrionmental harm and threats to health (English)
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are highly toxic chemical substances that may be produced intentionally for use in agriculture, and industry, or as byproducts of combustion, and industrial processes...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 26283 Document Date: May 30, 2003 Author: Lovei, Magda [editor],Gorman,Steve,Tynan,Ellen J.
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The poverty/environment nexus : findings for Lao PDR (English)
Environmental degradation can inflict serious damage on poor people, because their livelihoods often depend on natural resource use, and their living conditions may offer little protection from pollution...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 29004 Document Date: November 1, 2002 Author: Dasgupta,Susmita,Deichmann,Uwe Klaus,Meisner,Craig M.,Wheeler, David
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Mainstreaming environment in poverty reduction strategies (English)
About 1.2 billion people live in extreme poverty-two-thirds of them in Asia, and one-fourth in Sub-Saharan Africa (World Bank 2002). To support efforts to combat poverty, a number of developing countries...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 29003 Document Date: August 1, 2002 Author: Bojo,Jan P.,Reddy, Chandra
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Payments for environmental services : Pagos por servicios ambientales (Spanish)
Despite their value, environmental services are often lost as land users typically receive no compensation for the services their land generates for others and therefore have no economic reason to take...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 29671 Document Date: May 1, 2002 Author: Pagiola,Stefano P.,Platais,Gunars H.
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Payments for environmental services (English)
Despite their value, environmental services are often lost as land users typically receive no compensation for the services their land generates for others and therefore have no economic reason to take...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 29671 Document Date: May 1, 2002 Author: Pagiola,Stefano P.,Platais,Gunars H.
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Country assistance strategies and the environment - taking stock (English)
The note looks at the results of a Bank review, that examined the specific ways in which environmental issues were addressed within the country assistance strategies (CASs), between the years 200-2001...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 23954 Document Date: February 28, 2002 Author: Belle, Arati,Shyamsundar, Priya,Hamilton, Kirk
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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 Author: Lvovsky,Kseniya