Documents et rapports
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Mainstreaming environment in the energy sector - the case of the energy- environment review for Iran (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 38177 Date du document: 1 décembre 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: 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 (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 37955 Date du document: 1 septembre 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: 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 (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 37954 Date du document: 1 mai 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Enriquez,Santiago,Sanchez-Triana,Ernesto
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Mitigating drought - long-term planning to reduce vulnerability (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 37952 Date du document: 1 juin 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Esikuri,Enos E.
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Strategic environmental assessment - concept and practice (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 37953 Date du document: 1 juin 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: 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 (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 30894 Date du document: 1 novembre 2004 Auteur: 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) (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 37826 Date du document: 1 juin 2004 Auteur: Markandya,Anil,Pedrozo, Suzette
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Assessing the costs of environmental degradation in the Middle East and North Africa Region (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 29863 Date du document: 1 avril 2004 Auteur: Sarraf,Maria
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World Bank investments for the urban environment (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 53364 Date du document: 1 octobre 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bigio,Anthony G.,Dahiya,Bharat
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Assessing environmental policy, regulatory and institutional capacity (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 53363 Date du document: 1 juillet 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lovei, Magda,Pillai,Poonam
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Persistent organic pollutants - a legacy of envrionmental harm and threats to health (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 26283 Date du document: 30 mai 2003 Auteur: Lovei, Magda [editor],Gorman,Steve,Tynan,Ellen J.
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The poverty/environment nexus : findings for Lao PDR (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 29004 Date du document: 1 novembre 2002 Auteur: Dasgupta,Susmita,Deichmann,Uwe Klaus,Meisner,Craig M.,Wheeler, David
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Mainstreaming environment in poverty reduction strategies (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 29003 Date du document: 1 août 2002 Auteur: Bojo,Jan P.,Reddy, Chandra
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Payments for environmental services : Pagos por servicios ambientales (espagnol)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 29671 Date du document: 1 mai 2002 Auteur: Pagiola,Stefano P.,Platais,Gunars H.
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Payments for environmental services (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 29671 Date du document: 1 mai 2002 Auteur: Pagiola,Stefano P.,Platais,Gunars H.
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Country assistance strategies and the environment - taking stock (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 23954 Date du document: 28 février 2002 Auteur: Belle, Arati,Shyamsundar, Priya,Hamilton, Kirk
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Environment, health and poverty (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 23953 Date du document: 31 janvier 2002 Auteur: Lvovsky,Kseniya