The International Tropical Timber
Organization (ITT0), an increasing number of citizens and
foresters, and most environmentalists realize that most
current use of tropical...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV43Date: January 31, 1991Author:
Goodland,Robert James
This paper reviews current economic
approaches to the analysis of projects and policies and
discusses possibilities for better integration of
environmental concerns...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV42Date: January 31, 1991Author:
Munasinghe, Mohan ;
Lutz, Ernst
This paper discusses how population and
economic developmental pressures will continue to put
increasing pressure on the environment, especially on scarce
water resources....
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV41Date: December 31, 1990Author:
Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan
This report is a collection of three
papers. The first, by Warford and Partow, examines available
policy instruments and analytical methods. It defines
macroeconomic...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV44Date: December 31, 1990Author:
Chapman, Duane [editor]
The Montreal Protocol, designed to
regulate chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) emissions, is particularly
interesting now as a checklist or blueprint for future
treaties on global...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV40Date: September 30, 1990Author:
Bohm,Peter J.
Southern Nigeria has a generally humid
climate with a dry season. Physically, most upland soils in
the region are easily compacted, have low available water
holding...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV39Date: September 30, 1990Author:
Lal, Rattan ;
Okigbo, Bede
The purpose of this report is to
describe current and planned efforts to make national
economic accounting systems more responsive to changes in
the environment and...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV37Date: August 31, 1990Author:
Peskin,Henry M. ;
Lutz,Ernst
This case study examines the direct
cause of air pollution in Ankara. It identifies the health
effects most likely to be associated with the dominant air
pollutants,...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV38Date: August 31, 1990Author:
Sebastian,Iona
Deforestation in Costa Rica has
proceeded at a rapid pace. Of the remaining 270,000 ha of
virgin forests on privately-owned land, about 30,000 ha a
year are being deforested....
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV34Date: July 31, 1990Author:
Lutz, Ernst ;
Daly, Herman
Environmental degradation in Eastern
Europe is a serious problem. The level of air and water
pollution and soil degradation threatens the health of the
people of the...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV35Date: July 31, 1990Author:
Wilczynski,Piotr M.
This paper analyzes approaches to
environmental policy in developing countries. It reviews the
policies of taxing pollution and the alternatives of
regulating it, and...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV36Date: July 31, 1990Author:
Anderson,Dennis
This report summarizes the issues and
ideas which were presented at the workshop. Key topics
covered include : a) the extent of desertification and how
to measure it;...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV33Date: June 30, 1990Author:
Trolldalen, Jon Martin
This catalog is a research tool. It
presents abstracts, classified by topic, of nearly 200
current works in ecological economics. The given scope is as
follows : "There...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV32Date: June 30, 1990Author:
Constanza, Robert ;
Haskell, Ben ;
Cornwell, Laura ;
D
This diagnostic case study is organized
into three parts. Part one includes a discussion of the
economic situation in China as it affects urban air
pollution problems,...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV31Date: May 31, 1990Author:
Krupnick, Alan ;
Sebastian, Iona
Watersheds as hydrologic units comprise
combinations of arable and nonarable land and drainage lines
and are utilized by permanent and transient populations with
varying...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV30Date: May 31, 1990Author:
Doolette, John B. ;
Magrath, William B.
This paper asks the question,
"Which is more cost effective for a developing country
-- disaster prevention or disaster recovery?" The
general approach of benefit/cost...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV29Date: May 31, 1990Author:
Anderson,Mary B
This report provides background and
practical guidelines in the evaluation of projects in
dryland areas, particularly projects concerned with dryland
degradation. Chapter...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV26Date: April 30, 1990Author:
Bie, Stein W.
This paper reviews alternative policy
controls to internalize the costs associated with
environmental externalities and of the methods used to
evaluate policy control...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV28Date: April 30, 1990Author:
Hamrin, Robert D.
The object of this study was to
demonstrate that natural resources data together with even
limited geo-based socio-economic data sets can serve an
important function...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV27Date: April 30, 1990Author:
Jagannathan, N. Vijay ;
Mori, Hideki ;
Hassan, H. M.
Growth in agricultural output for
developing countries between 1965 and 1986 has been
impressive at a rate of 3.3 per annum. However, there is
evidence that some of...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV25Date: February 28, 1990Author:
Lutz, Ernst ;
Young, Michael
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