Documents et rapports
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The global environmental benefits of land degradation control on agricultural land - global overlays program (anglais)
The note focuses on the global effects of land degradation, but emphasizes other important levels of land degradation: at the field level, it may result in reduced productivity; at the national level...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 20321 Date du document: 31 janvier 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pagiola,Stefano P.
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The greening of economic policy reform (Vol. 1 of 2) : Principles (anglais)
This report, in two volumes, addresses environmental impacts stemming from economy-wide policy reforms, and seeks to clarify the nature of the economic, physical, institutional, and cultural aspects of...
Type de document: Étude sur le commerce extérieur, les IDE et les flux de capitaux Numéro du rapport: 16339 Date du document: 28 février 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Warford,Jeremy James,Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan,Cruz,Wilfrido
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The greening of economic policy reform (Vol. 2 of 2) : Case studies (anglais)
This report, in two volumes, addresses environmental impacts stemming from economy-wide policy reforms, and seeks to clarify the nature of the economic, physical, institutional, and cultural aspects of...
Type de document: Étude sur le commerce extérieur, les IDE et les flux de capitaux Numéro du rapport: 16339 Date du document: 28 février 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Warford,Jeremy James,Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan,Cruz,Wilfrido
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Mainstreaming biodiversity in agricultural development - toward good practice : global overlays program (anglais)
This study looks at the role of agriculture in the decline of biodiversity. It first looks at the conflicts and complementaries between agriculture and biodiversity, touching on global trends, interactions...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 16332 Date du document: 28 février 1997 Auteur: Pagiola,Stefano P.,Kellenberg,John,Vidaeus,Lars O.,Srivastava,Jitendra P.
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Global climate change : economic and policy issues (anglais)
This volume, "Global climate change: economic and policy issues," contains three papers dealing with key issues and options relating to the economic and policy aspects of global warming. The authors of...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 15317 Date du document: 31 décembre 1995 Auteur: Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan
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Costs, benefits, and farmer adoption of agroforestry : project experience in Central America and the Caribbean (anglais)
Developing countries are facing major challenges to their rural land use, including deforestation, increasing scarcity of tree products, and environmental degradation on fragile agricultural lands. One...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 15334 Date du document: 31 décembre 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Current, Dean,Lutz,Ernst,Scherr,Sara,UNDP
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Government and the economy on the Amazon frontier (anglais)
This report illuminates the special characteristics of the overall political-economic context confronting governments on the Amazon frontier as the current pattern of development often results in violent...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 14987 Date du document: 31 août 1995 Auteur: Schneider,Robert R.
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Valuing tropical forests : methodology and case study of Madagascar (anglais)
The loss of large areas of tropical forests has become a major concern of the world community. Although there are many causes of tropical deforestation and forest degradation, an important cause appears...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 14980 Date du document: 31 août 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kramer,Randall A.,Sharma,Narendra P.,Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan
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Economywide policies and the environment : lessons from experience (anglais)
Although economywide policies are not directed explicitly towards influencing the quality of the natural environment, they may, affect it for good or bad. Such policies include: altering exchange or interest...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 14033 Date du document: 31 janvier 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Munasinghe, Mohan,Cruz, Wilfrido
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Alternative policies for the control of air pollution in Poland (anglais)
Like other Central European countries, Poland faces the twin challenges of improving environmental quality while also promoting economic development. This study examines the cost of achieving alternative...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 13036 Date du document: 31 mars 1994 Auteur: Bates, Robin,Cofala, Janusz,Toman, Michael
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Poverty, institutions, and the environmental - resource base (anglais)
This paper relies on empirical material drawn from anthropology, demography, economics, and the environmental sciences for identifying possible links between rural poverty, fertility behavior, and the...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 13031 Date du document: 31 mars 1994 Auteur: Dasgupta,Partha Sarathi,Maler, Karl-Goran
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Incorporating environmental concerns into power sector decisionmaking : a case study of Sri Lanka (anglais)
This case study of Sri Lanka seeks to demonstrate how environmental concerns can be incorporated into the planning stage of power sector development. The techniques and procedures are designed to complement...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 12966 Date du document: 31 mars 1994 Auteur: Meier,Peter,Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan
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Economic and institutional analyses of soil conservation projects in Central America and the Caribbean (anglais)
The work presented in this report was motivated by an interest in understanding the extent of soil degradation in Central America and the Caribbean, in knowing how farmers are in general responding to...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 13010 Date du document: 31 mars 1994 Auteur: Lutz,Ernst,Pagiola,Stefano P.,Reiche, Carlos [editors]
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Land resource management in Machakos District, Kenya : 1930-1990 (anglais)
An issue which has generated much concern has been the potential link between low incomes and resource degradation. This report presents the results of a study which investigated this question. Machakos...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 12888 Date du document: 28 février 1994 Auteur: English,John C.,Tiffen, Mary,Mortimore, Michael
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Trees, land, and labor (anglais)
This survey describes the factors that affect tree cultivation and clearance by Kenyan farmers. These factors include agricultural conditions, product markets, the family life cycle, income, and changing...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 29819 Date du document: 1 décembre 1993 Auteur: Dewees,Peter A.
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Environmental economics and sustainable development (anglais)
Environment and development are no longer considered mutually exclusive by governments and developmental agencies. It is now recognized that a healthy environment is essential to sustainable growth. This...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 12371 Date du document: 31 juillet 1993 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan
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Sustainable development concepts : an economic analysis (anglais)
The decade of the 1980s has witnessed a fundamental change in the way governments and development agencies think about environment and development. The two are no longer regarded as mutually exclusive...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 11425 Date du document: 30 novembre 1992 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pezzey, John
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Conservation of west and central African rainforests (anglais)
The fundamental change in thinking over the past decade, which has brought the whole environmental aspect of development to the fore, has resulted from an increasing recognition of the interdependence...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 11384 Date du document: 31 octobre 1992 Auteur: Cleaver,Kevin M.,Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan,Dyson,Mary B.,Egli, Nicolas,Peuker,Axel R.,Wencelius, Francois [editors],IUCN