Documents et rapports
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Natural resource governance in Latin America and the Caribbean : social and environmental policies for inclusive growth (anglais)
Natural resource wealth has long played a central role in the fortunes and development of Latin American and Caribbean economies. During much of the 2000s, high prices of the region’s key commodity exports...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 107024 Date du document: 1 juin 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Arnson,Cynthia,Kemper,Karin Erika
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Environmental health in Nicaragua : addressing key environmental challenges : Salud ambiental en Nicaragua : los principales desafios ambientales (espagnol)
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has a unique mix of qualities and challenges when it comes to the environment. It is exceptionally endowed with natural assets, with globally significant biodiversity...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 76894 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kemper,Karin Erika
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Overcoming institutional and governance challenges in environmental management : case studies from Latin America and the Caribbean region (anglais)
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has a unique mix of qualities and challenges when it comes to the environment. It is exceptionally endowed with natural assets, with globally significant biodiversity...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 76895 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kemper,Karin Erika
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Environmental health in Nicaragua : addressing key environmental challenges (anglais)
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has a unique mix of qualities and challenges when it comes to the environment. It is exceptionally endowed with natural assets, with globally significant biodiversity...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 76894 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kemper,Karin Erika
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Mitigation of arsenic contamination in drinking water-supplies of Bangladesh - the case of Chapai Nawabganj (anglais)
Widespread naturally-occurring arsenic contamination of shallow groundwater is a major challenge in relation to safe drinking-water provision in Bangladesh - and the most obvious alternative of surface...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 51823 Date du document: 1 octobre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Tuinhof,Albert,Kemper,Karin Erika
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Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina : the Guarani aquifer initiative for transboundary groundwater management : A iniciativa do programa sistema aquífero guarani : rumo a gestão prática da água subterrânea em um contexto transfronteiriço (portugais)
This case profile provides a summary and vision of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded Guarani Aquifer Program for groundwater resource sustainability and environmental protection which is valued...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 38809 Date du document: 1 novembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika
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Economic impacts of sanitation in Cambodia : a five-country study conducted in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, the Philippines, and Vietnam under the Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) (Vol. 2 of 2) : Main report (anglais)
The sanitation impact study, initiated by the World Bank water and sanitation program, aims to generate sound evidence on the negative impacts of existing sanitation and hygiene conditions and the potential...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 44295 Date du document: 1 février 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Koundouri,Phoebe,Nanni,Marcella,Tuinhof,Albert
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Economic impacts of sanitation in Cambodia : a five-country study conducted in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, the Philippines, and Vietnam under the Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) (Vol. 1 of 2) : Executive summary (anglais)
The sanitation impact study, initiated by the World Bank water and sanitation program, aims to generate sound evidence on the negative impacts of existing sanitation and hygiene conditions and the potential...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 44295 Date du document: 1 janvier 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Koundouri,Phoebe,Nanni,Marcella,Tuinhof,Albert
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Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina : the Guarani aquifer initiative for transboundary groundwater management : The Guarani aquifer initiative for transboundary groundwater management (anglais)
This case profile provides a summary and vision of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded Guarani Aquifer Program for groundwater resource sustainability and environmental protection which is valued...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 38809 Date du document: 1 septembre 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika
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Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina : the Guarani aquifer initiative for transboundary groundwater management : La iniciativa del acuifero Guarani para la gestion transfronteriza del agua subterranea (espagnol)
This case profile provides a summary and vision of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded Guarani Aquifer Program for groundwater resource sustainability and environmental protection which is valued...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 38809 Date du document: 1 septembre 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika
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Global issues for global citizens : an introduction to key development challenges (anglais)
This book grew out of the Global Issues seminars and is itself a testament to that two-way dialogue: the suggestion to compile the speakers' lecture notes into a book came from the students themselves...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 37452 Date du document: 1 août 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bhargava,Vinay K.,Chuhan-Pole,Punam,Claessens, Stijin,Varma,Sona,Goldin,Ian A.,Anderson,Kym,Nash,John D.,Cleaver,Kevin M.,Okidegbe,Nwanze,De Nys,Erwin,Balachander,Jayshree,Kagia,Ruth,Shekar,Meera,Lee,Yi-Kyoung,Noble,Ian Roy,Watson,Robert T.,Saghir,Jamal,O'Sullivan,Kyran,Sadoff,Claudia Winkelman,Kemper,Karin Erika,Grey,David R. C.,Kelleher,Kieran,Weber,Michael Leo,Kuroda,Kazuhide,Avalle,Oscar,Curioni,Gaspard Henri Vincent,Gurkhan, Asli
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Groundwater dependent ecosystems : the challenge of balanced assessment and adequate conservation : Los ecosistemas dependientes del agua subterranean : procedimientos de caracterizacion y medidas de conservacion (espagnol)
Groundwater plays an integral role in sustaining certain types of aquatic, terrestrial and coastal ecosystems, and the associated landscapes, both in humid and arid climatic regions. It is thus a key factor...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44296 Date du document: 15 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Koundouri,Phoebe,Tuinhof,Albert,Kemper,Karin Erika,Nanni,Marcella,Garduno,Hector
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Groundwater dependent ecosystems : the challenge of balanced assessment and adequate conservation (anglais)
Groundwater plays an integral role in sustaining certain types of aquatic, terrestrial and coastal ecosystems, and the associated landscapes, both in humid and arid climatic regions. It is thus a key factor...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44296 Date du document: 15 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Koundouri,Phoebe,Tuinhof,Albert,Kemper,Karin Erika,Nanni,Marcella,Garduno,Hector
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Groundwater management strategies : facets of the integrated approach (arabe)
This briefing note explains the technical strategies to confront situations of excessive, and unstable groundwater exploitation, but the institutional framework for implementation is dealt with elsewhere...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 30091 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Nanni,Marcella,Tuinhof,Albert
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Groundwater legislation and regulatory provision : from customary rules to integrated catchment planning (arabe)
The note reviews country legislation over groundwater resources, specifying many governments have introduced legislation to regulate groundwater development, and to constrain activities that might compromise...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 30092 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dumars,Charles,Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Nanni,Marcella,Tuinhof,Albert
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Natural groundwater quality hazards : avoiding problems and formulating mitigation strategies (anglais)
The note questions how can potable, groundwater be affected by natural quality hazards, and discusses elements such as trace elements that can sometimes make it unfit of unacceptable for consumption, and...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 32196 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Koundouri,Phoebe,Nannin, Marcella,Tuinhof,Albert
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Groundwater resource management : an introduction to its scope and practice (arabe)
The note provides an introduction to groundwater resource management, its scope and practice, and aims at clarifying the difference between surface water and groundwater, as follows. Groundwater differs...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 30089 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dumars,Charles,Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Nanni,Marcella,Tuinhof,Albert
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Groundwater resource development in minor aquifers : management strategy for village and small town water supply (anglais)
This briefing note deals primarily with issues affecting initial development, and subsequent expansion of groundwater supplies, in areas underlain by minor aquifers, whose yield to water wells is both...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44294 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,Stephen,Tuinhof,Albert,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Koundouri,Phoebe,Nanni,Marcella
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Groundwater resource development in minor aquifers : management strategy for village and small town water supply (arabe)
This briefing note deals primarily with issues affecting initial development, and subsequent expansion of groundwater supplies, in areas underlain by minor aquifers, whose yield to water wells is both...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 32195 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Koundourim Phoebe,Nanni, Marccella,Tuinhof,Albert
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Characterization of groundwater systems : key concepts and frequent misconceptions (arabe)
The note characterizes groundwater systems, reviews key concepts and frequent misconceptions, and explains how aquifers differ from one another. Groundwater flows generally take place in a myriad of interconnected...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 30090 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Foster,James Stephen,Garduno,Hector,Kemper,Karin Erika,Nanni,Marcella,Tuinhof,Albert