This study reviews World Bank adjustment
lending operations over the period FY88-FY92. It was based
on a sample of 81 loans which accounted for about 71 percent
of...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV65Date: March 31, 1994Author:
Warford, Jeremy ;
Schwab, Adelaida ;
Cruz, Wilfrido
Involuntary resettlement caused by
development projects is a topic of increasing international
interest. This bibliography brings together and selectively
annotates...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV64Date: February 28, 1994Author:
Guggenheim,Scott E.
This study examines some of the links
between economywide policies and the environment, by
focusing on energy sector policies and the air quality in
Poland. The first...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV63Date: January 31, 1994Author:
Bates, Robin ;
Gupta, Shreekant ;
Fiedor, Boguslaw
This study analyses the economic and
social impacts of establishing a national park in Madagascar
on village households living adjacent to tropical
rainforests in the...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV62Date: January 31, 1994Author:
Kramer, Randall A. ;
Sharma, Narendra ;
Shyamsundar,
Rapid deforestation of tropical forests
has received worldwide attention. Yet our understanding of
the actual facts of deforestation tends to be limited,
derived from...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV61Date: September 30, 1993Author:
Lutz, Ernst ;
Vedova, Mario W. ;
San Roman, Lorena ;
Vasquez, Ricardo ;
Alvarado, Alfredo ;
Merino, Lucia ;
Celis, Rafael ;
Huising, Jeroen
Some projects have both global and
domestic environmental benefits. The author examines the
feasibility of applying alternative cost allocation formulas
to divide the...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV59Date: April 1, 1993Author:
Armstrong, Juli K. ;
Girsback, Ines G. ;
Van Orsdol, Karl G.
Sustainability is viewed in this paper
as essentially an economic concept, and placed firmly in a
national income and product context. Income, by definition,
must be...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV58Date: March 31, 1993Author:
El Serafy,Salah
In conventional economic analysis, the
costs of natural capital are systematically underestimated
due to individual short-term incentives of decision makers,
the presence...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV56Date: February 28, 1993Author:
Von Amsberg,Joachim
There has been considerable controversy
in recent years over the question of whether the standard
notions of carrying capacity in the dryland range areas of
sub - Saharan...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV57Date: February 28, 1993Author:
Perrings,Charles Aubrey
This report provides an overview of
current and historical greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions;
examines alternative formulation on how efforts to lower
anthropogenic GHG...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV55Date: November 30, 1992Author:
Grubler, Arnulf ;
Nakicenovic, Nebojsa
The main purpose of this case study was
to apply the environmental accounting framework in a country
at a relatively early stage of industrial development, where
actual...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV54Date: July 31, 1992Author:
Bartelmus, Peter ;
Lutz, Ernst ;
Schweinfest, Stefan
In 1987 the Commonwealth Heads of
Government requested their Secretariat to examine the scope
for Commonwealth action on soil erosion, desertification and
related drought...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV53Date: June 30, 1992Author:
Behnke, R.H. ;
Scoones, I.
Country studies will help define
national policy responses and project priorities for
restraining the emissions of greenhouse gases. They might
also become necessary...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV52Date: April 30, 1992Author:
Ebert, Craig ;
Karmali, Abyd
One essential step towards achieving
sustainable development is the economically efficient
management of natural resources. This paper explains the
key role of environmental...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV51Date: February 29, 1992Author:
Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan
This report presents the results of a
case study carried out in 1990 and 1991, jointly by the
United Nations Statistical Office (UNSO), the World Bank,
and the National...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV50Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Van Tongeren, Jan ;
Schweinfest, Stefan
The establishment of the Interim
Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol reflects the
judgment that substantial transfers of resources to
developing countries (to...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV48Date: September 30, 1991Author:
Van Der Tak,Herman G.
The international community has
recognized the danger of stratospheric ozone destruction
and, through the Montreal Protocol, has resolved to phase
out the use of ozone...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV49Date: September 30, 1991Author:
Munasinghe, Mohan ;
King, Kenneth
The Montreal Protocol stipulates a
complete phase-out of substances that deplete the ozone
layer. The Multilateral Fund has been established to
provide grant finance...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV47Date: September 30, 1991Author:
King, Kenneth ;
Munasinghe,Mohan
This report is a contribution to the
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development to
be held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, and which builds on
the trailblazing...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV46Date: July 31, 1991Author:
Goodland, Robert ;
Daly, Herman ;
El Serafy, Salah [
Interest in energy conservation,
although to some degree cyclical, has been stimulated during
the last 20 years. An active debate has ensued, in which it
is alleged...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV45Date: May 31, 1991Author:
Bates,Robin W.
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