Documents et rapports
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Stakeholder consultation and analysis : second phase of the social assessment for the El Salvador EDUCO Program and the Basic Education Modernization Project (anglais)
As part of preparation of the El Salvador Basic Education Modernization Project, a social assessment (SA) was carried out between November 1994 and February 1995 to identify the project's major benefits...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 32435 Date du document: 1 juin 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abramovay,Miriam,Briones, Carlos,Pena, Maria-Valeria Junho,Salem,Tania Rachel,Johns Swartz,Kathryn L.
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Social assessment for the Nicaragua Rural Municipalities Project : Poverty, gender, and indigenous issues in the integration of environment and rural reconstruction assistance (anglais)
The objective of the Rural Municipalities Project is to improve the management of natural resources to alleviate rural poverty by (a) improving the capacity of national and local institutions to make and...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 36152 Date du document: 1 septembre 1996 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Arieira, Marcia,Correia,Maria C.,Junho Pena, Valeria,Ortega Rodriguez,Marvin R.
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Involuntary resettlement of urban population : experiences in World Bank-financed development projects in Latin America (anglais)
This note is based on experiences from World Bank projects in Latin America, and/or other regions, as well as from contributions made by social science teams/agencies who dealt with resettlement issues...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19863 Date du document: 31 juillet 1996 Auteur: Mejia, Maria Clara
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Policy options to address informal sector contamination in urban Latin America : the case of leather tanneries in Bogota, Colombia (anglais)
This paper builds on available literature about the informal sector and environmental policymaking. Its goal is to raise awareness about urban informal sector contamination and to establish an initial...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 15333 Date du document: 31 décembre 1995 Auteur: Biller,S. A. Dan,Quintero, Juan David
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Social assessment : El Salvador Basic Education Modernization Project (anglais)
This note focuses on the social assessment, undertaken as part of the preparation of the Basic Education Modernization Project in El Salvador, to identify the stakeholders, and major benefits, and risks...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19862 Date du document: 31 octobre 1995 Auteur: Junho Pena, Valeria
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Successful environmental institutions : lessons from Colombia and Curitiba, Brazil (anglais)
This note examines broad questions of environmental institution building, focusing on basic elements that help explain an institution's success, possibly, applicable as well, to environmental government...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19830 Date du document: 31 décembre 1994 Auteur: Tlaiye,Laura E.,Biller,S. A. Dan
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People's participation in environmental assessment in Latin America : best practices (anglais)
This note contains the results of the early experiences in Latin America, in fostering people's participation in environmental assessments (EA), and recommends best practices to be utilized, to improve...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19829 Date du document: 30 novembre 1994 Auteur: Partridge,William
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Assessing the conservation potential and degree of threat among ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean : a proposed landscape ecology approach (anglais)
This note complements previous attempts at setting regional, and national priorities for bio-diversity conservation in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Based on a tiered analysis, the note focuses...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19828 Date du document: 28 février 1994 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Olson, David M.,Dinerstein, Eric
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Prospects for improved management of natural forests in Latin America (anglais)
This note reviews the Latin American experience in forestry ecosystems, and reveals the technical feasibility of improved natural forest management, but also exposes the major constraints to its implementation...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19827 Date du document: 31 décembre 1993 Auteur: Kirmse,Robert,Constantino,Luis F.,Guess, George M.
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Pueblos indigenas y desarrollo en America Latina (espagnol)
This note reviews the economic, social, and political welfare of indigenous peoples in Latin America, and examines the environmental aspects of the region's economic development, as priorities for the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19823 Date du document: 31 décembre 1993 Auteur: Uquillas Rodas,Jorge E.,Rivera,Jean-Carlo
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Forest management and competing land uses : an economic analysis for Costa Rica (anglais)
This note aims at explaining why sustainable natural forest management, is rarely observed in the Latin America and Caribbean region, even though this sustainability is a declared governments' goal. Private...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19821 Date du document: 31 octobre 1993 Auteur: Kishor,Nalin M.,Constantino,Luis F.
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Ecology and microeconomics as "joint products" : the Bonaire Marine Park in the Caribbean (anglais)
In attempting to meet both ecological and economic goals, related with the establishment and management of protected areas, countries find themselves struggling with conflicts often associated with it...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19308 Date du document: 31 octobre 1993 Auteur: Dixon,John A.,Fallon Scura, Louise,Van'T Hof,Tom
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An analysis of flooding in the Parana / Paraguay river basin (anglais)
The study analyzes the evidence examined on the recent frequency, and severity of flooding in the Parana/Paraguay basin. Indeed, it indicates that over the last ten-year period, flood discharge rates are...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19820 Date du document: 30 septembre 1993 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anderson, robert J,da Franca Ribeiro dos Santos,
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The urban environmental challenge in Latin America (anglais)
According to recent statistics, Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the most urbanized regions in the world, with the urban population expected to reach 80 percent by the year 2020. The author reviews...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19307 Date du document: 31 août 1993 Auteur: Dixon,John A.
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Sustainability, yield loss and "Imediatismo" : choice of technique at the frontier (anglais)
This note questions why sustainable development models are not being adopted widely, for, only few examples of sustainable, Amazon frontier resource management, can be identified, with barely, few extractive...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19860 Date du document: 30 avril 1993 Auteur: Schneider,Robert R.,Platais,Gunars H.,Rosenblatt,David,Webb,Maryla B.
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Land abandonment, property rights, and agricultural sustainability in the Amazon (anglais)
This note reviews evidence on the economic viability of new settlers in the Amazon region, and examines data on characteristics of early vs. new settlements, farm turnover, and land abandonment. The first...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19819 Date du document: 30 avril 1993 Auteur: Schneider,Robert R.
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The potential for trade with the Amazon in greenhouse gas reduction (anglais)
The growing worldwide interest in the problems of global warming, and the emission of greenhouse gases, has led to a search for innovative ways to reduce carbon emissions. International trade, based on...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19861 Date du document: 30 avril 1993 Auteur: Schneider,Robert R.