Documents et rapports

Mobilizing and Managing Public Forestry Revenue (anglais)

This paper considers the potential for improvements in forestry revenue management to complement other efforts toward sustainable forest management and to strengthen domestic resource mobilization. It...

Elephant crime intelligence system assessment (anglais)

This assessment concludes that individual nations as well as regional and transnational organizations now have severely limited to nonexistent capacities to effectively respond to growing threat levels...

Note on green growth for Bhutan (anglais)

Bhutan has recently made significant progress in sustaining economic growth and reducing poverty. Bhutan also has valuable deposits of primary materials including dolomite, lime stone, gypsum, quartzite...

India - National Agricultural Innovation Project : P092735 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 19 (anglais)

Justice for forests : improving criminal justice efforts to combat illegal logging (anglais)

Every two seconds, across the world, an area of forest the size of a football field is clear-cut by illegal loggers. In some countries, up to 90 percent of all the logging taking place is illegal. Estimates...

Timber theft prevention : introduction to security for forest managers (anglais)

As this report makes clear, the susceptibility of forests to illegal logging is a predictable consequence of the poor quality of forest management planning and practice around the world. The report's discussion...

Promoting sustainable agriculture : improving policies for natural resource management (anglais)

Farmers are aware of natural resource degradation, but environmentally unsustainable agricultural practices remain widespread. Like other differences among farmers, many factors affect the adoption of...

The World Bank research observer 11 (2) (anglais)

Some lessons from the East Asian Miracle, by Joseph E. Stiglitz. In search of owners: privatization and corporate governance in transition economies, by Cheryl W. Gray. How well can method substitute for...

Deforestation and forest land use : theory, evidence, and policy implications (anglais)

The topic of deforestation is seldom examined from the perspective of prices and responses to resource scarcity. This omission creates important errors in policy. Resource scarcity induces investments...

Watershed development in Asia : strategies and technologies (anglais)

Watersheds as hydrologic units comprise combinations of arable and nonarable land and drainage lines and are utilized by permanent and transient populations with varying skills and committment to long...

The challenge of the commons : the allocation of nonexclusive resources (anglais)

This paper examines the forces that determine the allocation of resources which are not subject to completely private ownership. The paper develops the distinction between common property, in which collective...