Documents et rapports
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Coordinating Environment, Transport, and Energy Policies for Cleaner Air (anglais)
Poor urban air quality causes serious environmental health damage in many developing countries. Arriving at effective and sustainable solutions to these problems requires a broad approach that takes into...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 184189 Date du document: 31 décembre 2001 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kojima,Masami,Lovei,Magda
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Transport Fuel, Taxes, and Urban Air Quality (anglais)
In developing country cities, fuel use for transport is a growing contributor to air pollution and environmental health risks. One way of applying the polluter pays principle to transport is to adjust...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 184190 Date du document: 31 décembre 2001 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gwilliam,Kenneth M.,Bacon,Robert W.,Kojima,Masami,Lvovsky,Kseniya
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Foreign direct investment : boon or bane for the environment? (anglais)
The author offers insights on the significance of foreign direct investment (FDI), as a driving force in sustainable environmental management in developing countries. Its environmental effects depend on...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 20983 Date du document: 30 juin 2000 Auteur: GENTRY, BRADFORD S.
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Comparative risk assessment in developing countries (anglais)
Comparative risk assessment (CRA) has been increasingly used around the world as a useful environmental planning tool. It allows policymakers and managers to focus institutional and financial resources...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 24102 Date du document: 31 janvier 2000 Auteur: Keane,Susan Egan,Cho, Jeannie
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Environmental challenges of fuel use (anglais)
Among the potential effects of fossil fuel combustion are urban air pollution, acid rain, and changes in global climate. A study of six cities in developing countries and of an industrial area in Poland...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 20760 Date du document: 31 décembre 1999 Auteur: Lvovsky,Kseniya,Hughes,Gordon A.
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Environmental funds : the Chinese experience (anglais)
Environmental funds have become popular in developing and transition economies as a way of channeling money into environmental programs when access to financing for such activities is limited. In countries...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 20759 Date du document: 30 novembre 1999 Auteur: Travers,Sumter Lee
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Environmental implications of privatization (anglais)
Privatization fosters economic efficiency and contributes to governments' fiscal health by relieving them of the burdens of state ownership. Besides these economic benefits, privatization also offers an...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 20758 Date du document: 30 septembre 1999 Auteur: Lovei,Magda
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Better environmental decisionmaking : the DSS/IPC (anglais)
Among the tools available for decisionmakers for assessing environmental problems and arriving at cost-effective solutions is the Decision Support System for Integrated Pollution Control (DSS/IPC). This...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 20761 Date du document: 31 mars 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lvovsky,Kseniya
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Comparative risk assessment (anglais)
In an imperfect world of finite resources, decisionmakers everywhere are faced with difficult choices about how to deal with environmental problems. Comparative risk assessment (CRA) can help. CRA is a...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 20762 Date du document: 28 février 1999 Auteur: Ijjasz-Vasquez,Ede Jorge,Tlaiye,Laura E.
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Environmental funds (anglais)
Environmental funds (EFs) are increasingly popular environmental financing mechanisms in developing and transition economies. The failure of governments to tackle environmental problems by putting in place...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 20018 Date du document: 31 janvier 1999 Auteur: Lovei,Magda