Showing 1 - 10 of 28
The objectives of this Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) were to assess the environmental quality in the Philippines with a focus on how this affects human welfare and sustainability, measure and analyze the biophysical significance and monetary cost of environmental degradation and derive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550920
The Twenty-sixth United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) was held in early November 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland, at which Vietnam's Prime Minister, Phạm Minh Chính, pledged once again that Vietnam would be part of the global climate change solution. The country aims to increase the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255383
This study, policy and investment priorities to reduce environmental degradation of the Lake Nicaragua watershed, has assessed the sources and the magnitude of the pressures that threaten Lake Cocibolca. It was accomplished by applying a hydrological and land use model to the lake's watershed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560504
to environmental health, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, environmental policy, pollution … outdoor air pollution. The results are striking in that these three risks alone amount to an estimated 2.4 percent of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560508
14, the proportion of deaths attributable to environmental risks, such as poor water and sanitation, indoor air pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557496
Panama is experiencing spectacular economic growth, averaging 7.5 percent during 2004-06; a construction boom; and emerging new opportunities and growing export markets. Despite this impressive growth performance, at the national level poverty remained almost unchanged during 1997-2006 at around...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557797
The growth and impacts of plastic pollution have emerged as a major environmental challenge globally. Plastic pollution … started to implement policies to manage plastic pollution and its impact, but as yet there is little evidence about their … development and implementation of policies to manage plastic pollution and provide evidence-based policy guidance. The structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014578774
, and at coastal sites to determine the extent of plastic pollution, and the top 10 polluting items; remote sensing and net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545417
This report discusses the affects of rapid economic growth and increased urbanization on the environmental quality of the Dominican Republic's natural resource base (e.g., water resources management--water quality, quantity and watershed management and solid waste collection and disposal have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559212
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001703064