Documentos e Relatórios
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Mainstreaming environment in the energy sector - the case of the energy- environment review for Iran (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 38177 Data do documento: 1 de dezembro de 2006 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 37955 Data do documento: 1 de setembro de 2006 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 37954 Data do documento: 1 de maio de 2006 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Enriquez,Santiago,Sanchez-Triana,Ernesto
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Mitigating drought - long-term planning to reduce vulnerability (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 37952 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2005 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Esikuri,Enos E.
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Strategic environmental assessment - concept and practice (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 37953 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2005 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 30894 Data do documento: 1 de novembro de 2004 Autor: 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) (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 37826 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2004 Autor: Markandya,Anil,Pedrozo, Suzette
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Assessing the costs of environmental degradation in the Middle East and North Africa Region (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 29863 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2004 Autor: Sarraf,Maria
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World Bank investments for the urban environment (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 53364 Data do documento: 1 de outubro de 2003 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Bigio,Anthony G.,Dahiya,Bharat
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Assessing environmental policy, regulatory and institutional capacity (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 53363 Data do documento: 1 de julho de 2003 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Lovei, Magda,Pillai,Poonam
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Persistent organic pollutants - a legacy of envrionmental harm and threats to health (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 26283 Data do documento: 30 de maio de 2003 Autor: Lovei, Magda [editor],Gorman,Steve,Tynan,Ellen J.
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The poverty/environment nexus : findings for Lao PDR (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 29004 Data do documento: 1 de novembro de 2002 Autor: Dasgupta,Susmita,Deichmann,Uwe Klaus,Meisner,Craig M.,Wheeler, David
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Mainstreaming environment in poverty reduction strategies (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 29003 Data do documento: 1 de agosto de 2002 Autor: Bojo,Jan P.,Reddy, Chandra
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Payments for environmental services : Pagos por servicios ambientales (Espanhol)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 29671 Data do documento: 1 de maio de 2002 Autor: Pagiola,Stefano P.,Platais,Gunars H.
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Payments for environmental services (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 29671 Data do documento: 1 de maio de 2002 Autor: Pagiola,Stefano P.,Platais,Gunars H.
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Country assistance strategies and the environment - taking stock (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 23954 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2002 Autor: Belle, Arati,Shyamsundar, Priya,Hamilton, Kirk
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Environment, health and poverty (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 23953 Data do documento: 31 de janeiro de 2002 Autor: Lvovsky,Kseniya