Documents & Reports
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Stakeholder consultation and analysis : second phase of the social assessment for the El Salvador EDUCO Program and the Basic Education Modernization Project (English)
As part of preparation of the El Salvador Basic Education Modernization Project, a social assessment (SA) was carried out between November 1994 and February 1995 to identify the project's major benefits...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 32435 Document Date: June 1, 1997 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Abramovay,Miriam,Briones, Carlos,Pena, Maria-Valeria Junho,Salem,Tania Rachel,Johns Swartz,Kathryn L.
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Social assessment for the Nicaragua Rural Municipalities Project : Poverty, gender, and indigenous issues in the integration of environment and rural reconstruction assistance (English)
The objective of the Rural Municipalities Project is to improve the management of natural resources to alleviate rural poverty by (a) improving the capacity of national and local institutions to make and...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 36152 Document Date: September 1, 1996 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arieira, Marcia,Correia,Maria C.,Junho Pena, Valeria,Ortega Rodriguez,Marvin R.
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Involuntary resettlement of urban population : experiences in World Bank-financed development projects in Latin America (English)
This note is based on experiences from World Bank projects in Latin America, and/or other regions, as well as from contributions made by social science teams/agencies who dealt with resettlement issues...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 19863 Document Date: July 31, 1996 Author: Mejia, Maria Clara
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Policy options to address informal sector contamination in urban Latin America : the case of leather tanneries in Bogota, Colombia (English)
This paper builds on available literature about the informal sector and environmental policymaking. Its goal is to raise awareness about urban informal sector contamination and to establish an initial...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 15333 Document Date: December 31, 1995 Author: Biller,S. A. Dan,Quintero, Juan David
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Social assessment : El Salvador Basic Education Modernization Project (English)
This note focuses on the social assessment, undertaken as part of the preparation of the Basic Education Modernization Project in El Salvador, to identify the stakeholders, and major benefits, and risks...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 19862 Document Date: October 31, 1995 Author: Junho Pena, Valeria
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Successful environmental institutions : lessons from Colombia and Curitiba, Brazil (English)
This note examines broad questions of environmental institution building, focusing on basic elements that help explain an institution's success, possibly, applicable as well, to environmental government...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 19830 Document Date: December 31, 1994 Author: Tlaiye,Laura E.,Biller,S. A. Dan
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People's participation in environmental assessment in Latin America : best practices (English)
This note contains the results of the early experiences in Latin America, in fostering people's participation in environmental assessments (EA), and recommends best practices to be utilized, to improve...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 19829 Document Date: November 30, 1994 Author: Partridge,William
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Assessing the conservation potential and degree of threat among ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean : a proposed landscape ecology approach (English)
This note complements previous attempts at setting regional, and national priorities for bio-diversity conservation in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Based on a tiered analysis, the note focuses...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 19828 Document Date: February 28, 1994 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Olson, David M.,Dinerstein, Eric
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Prospects for improved management of natural forests in Latin America (English)
This note reviews the Latin American experience in forestry ecosystems, and reveals the technical feasibility of improved natural forest management, but also exposes the major constraints to its implementation...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 19827 Document Date: December 31, 1993 Author: Kirmse,Robert,Constantino,Luis F.,Guess, George M.
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Pueblos indigenas y desarrollo en America Latina (Spanish)
This note reviews the economic, social, and political welfare of indigenous peoples in Latin America, and examines the environmental aspects of the region's economic development, as priorities for the...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 19823 Document Date: December 31, 1993 Author: Uquillas Rodas,Jorge E.,Rivera,Jean-Carlo
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Forest management and competing land uses : an economic analysis for Costa Rica (English)
This note aims at explaining why sustainable natural forest management, is rarely observed in the Latin America and Caribbean region, even though this sustainability is a declared governments' goal. Private...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 19821 Document Date: October 31, 1993 Author: Kishor,Nalin M.,Constantino,Luis F.
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Ecology and microeconomics as "joint products" : the Bonaire Marine Park in the Caribbean (English)
In attempting to meet both ecological and economic goals, related with the establishment and management of protected areas, countries find themselves struggling with conflicts often associated with it...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 19308 Document Date: October 31, 1993 Author: Dixon,John A.,Fallon Scura, Louise,Van'T Hof,Tom
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An analysis of flooding in the Parana / Paraguay river basin (English)
The study analyzes the evidence examined on the recent frequency, and severity of flooding in the Parana/Paraguay basin. Indeed, it indicates that over the last ten-year period, flood discharge rates are...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 19820 Document Date: September 30, 1993 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson, robert J,da Franca Ribeiro dos Santos,
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The urban environmental challenge in Latin America (English)
According to recent statistics, Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the most urbanized regions in the world, with the urban population expected to reach 80 percent by the year 2020. The author reviews...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 19307 Document Date: August 31, 1993 Author: Dixon,John A.
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Sustainability, yield loss and "Imediatismo" : choice of technique at the frontier (English)
This note questions why sustainable development models are not being adopted widely, for, only few examples of sustainable, Amazon frontier resource management, can be identified, with barely, few extractive...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 19860 Document Date: April 30, 1993 Author: Schneider,Robert R.,Platais,Gunars H.,Rosenblatt,David,Webb,Maryla B.
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Land abandonment, property rights, and agricultural sustainability in the Amazon (English)
This note reviews evidence on the economic viability of new settlers in the Amazon region, and examines data on characteristics of early vs. new settlements, farm turnover, and land abandonment. The first...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 19819 Document Date: April 30, 1993 Author: Schneider,Robert R.
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The potential for trade with the Amazon in greenhouse gas reduction (English)
The growing worldwide interest in the problems of global warming, and the emission of greenhouse gases, has led to a search for innovative ways to reduce carbon emissions. International trade, based on...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 19861 Document Date: April 30, 1993 Author: Schneider,Robert R.