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Adaptation to Climate Change and Managing Disaster Risk in the Caribbean and South-East Asia
Agency, Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response; Center, … - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2003
This report includes the proceedings of the Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather Events in the Caribbean and Asia, held in Barbados at the Grand Barbados Beach Resort on July 24-25, 2003. The seminar provided a forum in which experts from the Southeast Asian and Caribbean regions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216207
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Climate Change's Impact on the Caribbean's Ability to Sustain Tourism, Natural Assests and Livelihoods
Simpson, Murray; Scott, Daniel; Trotz, Ulric - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
In this technical note, the authors present the effects of climate change on tourism development in the Caribbean … decision makers in the tourism sector, climate change is a new strategic reality. Increasingly, institutional investors, banks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246457
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Alternatives for Habitat Protection and Rural Income Generation
Southgate, Douglas - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997
The key question the research in this paper tries to answer is whether those four activities truly represent a viable economic alternative in Latin America's environmentally fragile hinterlands. Several cases in each line of activity are analyzed to determine the level and distribution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291840
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Environmental Mainstreaming: Applications in the Context of Modernization of the State, Social Development, Competitiveness, and Regional Integration
Seyour, Frances; Maurer, Crescencia; Quiroga, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
As part of a collaborative effort between the IDB's Environment Division and the World Resources Institute, this document discusses environmental mainstreaming considerations in the context of the four pillars of the Bank's Institutional Strategy: Modernization of the State, Social Development,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291851
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Climate Change and the Caribbean: Areas of Intervention: Financing for the Caribbean Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Unit (ECC), Infrastructure and Environment Department (IN...
Alleng, Gerard - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This presentation discusses the cost of impacts of climate change on the Caribbean. The response of adaptation will need to be applied towards an integral strategy to build on disaster risk reduction best practices and climate risk management. The response of the IDB to the climate change needs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294058
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Strategic Analysis of Competitiveness and Innovation in the Tourism and Telecommunications Industries: Opportunities and Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean
Garrido, Celso - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper analyzes the trends and challenges of competitiveness and innovation in the tourism and telecommunications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393126
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Technical Guidelines for Evaluating the Impacts of Tourism Using Simulation Models
Taylor, J. Edward - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
The purpose of this guideline is to make practitioners aware of simulation approaches for the evaluation of tourism … feasible. For example, it usually is not possible to roll out a tourism-promotion program for a randomly chosen "treatment … simulation approach is useful for tourism impact analysis, what a simulation model for the economic analysis of tourism impacts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274447
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The STC Challenge: Scaling Up Innovation in Sustainable Tourism
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672875
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The STC Challenge: Scaling Up Innovation in Sustainable Tourism
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673503
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Pasos prácticos para mercadear la certificación turística
Russillo, Aimee; Honey, Martha; Rome, Abigail; Bien, Amos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
Esta guía forma parte de una serie de manuales prácticos de ¿instrucciones¿ sobre la certificación en turismo sostenible. Estos manuales se fundamentan en la investigación y los informes efectuados por el Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development (CESD) y The International...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009205739