Documents et rapports
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Bridging Conflicts and Biodiversity Protection : The Critical Role of Reliable and Comparable Data (anglais)
Biodiversity is essential for ecological stability, human well-being, and economic progress, providing critical ecosystem services such as clean water, food, and climate regulation. However, it faces unprecedented...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11076 Date du document: 27 février 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Blankespoor, Brian,Dasgupta, Susmita,Wheeler,David
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Fishing and Climate Change in Coastal Bangladesh : The Economic and Health Impacts of Increasing Salinity (anglais)
The composition of flora and fauna in low-lying coastal regions worldwide is being altered by sea-level rise in a changing climate, favoring saline-tolerant species. These shifts are projected to have...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11048 Date du document: 27 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Blankespoor, Brian,Dasgupta, Susmita,Huq, Mainul,Khan,Zahirul Huque,Mustafa,Md. Golam,Wheeler,David
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Implementing 30x30 : Lessons from Country Case Studies (anglais)
The publication of nearly 600,000 new species occurrence maps using Global Biodiversity Information Facility data provides an opportunity to reassess international species protection with broader representation...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11045 Date du document: 24 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Blankespoor, Brian,Wheeler,David
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Estimating Extinction Threats with Species Occurrence Data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (anglais)
The world is experiencing a severe loss of biodiversity, highlighting the need for a strong global conservation strategy. Effective conservation depends on accurate information about where endangered species...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10822 Date du document: 25 juin 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Blankespoor, Brian,Wheeler,David
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Revisiting Global Biodiversity : A Spatial Analysis of Species Occurrence Data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (anglais)
This paper builds on recent advances in machine-based pattern recognition to estimate species occurrence maps, using georeferenced open-source data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. With...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10821 Date du document: 25 juin 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Susmita Dasgupta,Brian Blankespoor,Wheeler,David
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Identifying and Monitoring Priority Areas for Methane Emissions Reduction (anglais)
This paper identifies high-priority areas for methane emissions reduction and estimates recent emissions changes in those areas using atmospheric concentration data from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-5P...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10391 Date du document: 3 avril 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dasgupta,Susmita,Lall,Somik V.,Wheeler,David
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Scalable Tracking of CO2 Emissions : A Global Analysis with Satellite Data (anglais)
This paper extends recent research on satellite-based carbon dioxide measurement to an easily updated template for tracking changes in carbon dioxide concentrations at local and regional scales. Using...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10297 Date du document: 7 février 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dasgupta,Susmita,Lall,Somik V.,Wheeler,David
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Tracking Methane Emissions by Satellite : A New World Bank Database and Case Study for Irrigated Rice Production (anglais)
Atmospheric methane is a potent greenhouse gas that has accounted for 23 percent of radiative forcing in the lower atmosphere since 1750. Since methane has a much shorter atmospheric duration than carbon...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10224 Date du document: 7 novembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dasgupta,Susmita,Lall,Somik V.,Wheeler,David
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Traffic, Air Pollution, and Distributional Impacts in Dar es Salaam : A Spatial Analysis with New Satellite Data (anglais)
Air pollution from vehicular traffic is a major source of health damage in urban areas. The problems of urban traffic and pollution are essentially geographic, because their incidence and impacts depend...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9185 Date du document: 13 mars 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dasgupta,Susmita,Lall,Somik V.,Wheeler,David
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Co-Location, Socioeconomic Status and Perceptions of Environmental Change in the Indian Sundarbans (anglais)
Research on the determinants of collective action in the commons generally focuses on interest-group heterogeneity, implicitly assuming that groups perceive the same problems but have different priorities...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8917 Date du document: 26 juin 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dasgupta,Susmita,Guha,Bansari,Wheeler,David
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The socioeconomics of fish consumption and child health in Bangladesh (anglais)
Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHO's threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records from several waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, the research focuses...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8217 Date du document: 13 octobre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dasgupta,Susmita,Mustafa,Mohammed Golam,Paul,Tapas,Wheeler,David
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Minimizing ecological damage from road improvement in tropical forests (anglais)
A spatial econometric model is used to link road upgrading to forest clearing and biodiversity loss in the moist tropical forests of Bolivia, Cameroon, and Myanmar. Using 250-meter cells, the model estimates...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7826 Date du document: 19 septembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dasgupta,Susmita,Wheeler,David
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Impact of climate change and aquatic salinization on fish habitats and poor communities in southwest coastal Bangladesh and Bangladesh Sundarbans (anglais)
Fisheries constitute an important source of livelihoods for tens of thousands of poor people in the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh living near the UNESCO Heritage Sundarbans mangrove forest, and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7593 Date du document: 10 mars 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dasgupta,Susmita,Huq,Mainul,Mustafa,Md. Golam,Sobhan,Md Istiak,Wheeler,David
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Is environmentally-friendly agriculture less profitable for farmers ? evidence on integrated pest management in Bangladesh (anglais)
Concerns about the sustainability of conventional agriculture have prompted widespread introduction of integrated pest management (IPM), an ecologically-based approach to control of harmful insects and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3417 Date du document: 1 septembre 2004 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita, Meisner, Craig,Wheeler,David