The Kingdom of Morocco is endowed with a wealth of marine resources, characterized by high biodiversity with at least 600 identified fish species. In total, Morocco’s coastal areas contribute 59 percent...
This supplementary guidance note is based on the report, Defueling Conflict: Environment and Natural Resource Management as a Pathway to Peace (2022), which was funded by the State and Peacebuilding...
In Jordan, natural resources face compounding risks. The country’s scarce water resources are over-exploited resulting in water quality challenges especially salinization of groundwater due to declining...
Iraq is encountering air, water, and land pollution on an unprecedented scale, exacerbated by conflict and climate change. Thousands of hectares are contaminated by spills of hydrocarbons and other chemicals...
Zambia is a country richly endowed with natural resources, and home to a substantial protected area network. Approximately 40 percent of the country’s land area enjoys some form of protection, with globally...
In Lebanon, there are several environmental pressures that are further aggravated by climate change, the influx of refugees and a dire economic situation. Pollution from urban and industrial activities...
Brazil is the most megadiverse country in the world. It is home to one-third of the world’s tropical rainforests, twenty percent of the world’s freshwater, and has the world’s most biodiverse terrestrial...
The South Sudan economy is projected to contract by 4.1 percent in FY2020/21, with growth negatively affected by the impact of the pandemic, lower oil production, floods, and increased conflict intensity...
Protected areas are key to any global effort to conserve biodiversity. While governments see protected areas as key to addressing biodiversity loss, they are often overlooked in economic development plans...
Recent advances in food insecurity classification have made analytical approaches to predict and inform response to food crises possible. This paper develops a predictive, statistical framework to identify...
Globally, more than 130 million people are estimated to be in food crisis. These humanitarian disasters are associated with severe impacts on livelihoods that can reverse years of development gains. The...
This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new analysis tools and data. The paper discusses inference and interpretation in a machine...
This paper introduces a Spatial Vector Autoregressive Moving Average (SVARMA) model in which multiple cross-sectional time series are modeled as multivariate, possibly fat-tailed, spatial autoregressive...