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Synopsis of the Executive Profile of Environmental Management: Caribbean Subregion Title: Síntesis del perfil ejecutivo de gestión ambiental: Subregión Caribe
Tyler, Seth D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
This document provides an overview of environmental management priorities, achievements, and challenges in the Caribbean sub-region. It also provides some recommendations for sub-regional initiatives that could be pursued through the Dialogue. Throughout this paper, environmental management...
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Synopsis of the Executive Profile of Environmental Management: Mesoamerican Subregion Title: Síntesis del perfil ejecutivo de gestión ambiental: Subregión Mesoamérica
Pratt, Lawrence; Girot, Pascal O. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
This executive profile summarized here identifies the great environmental challenges of the Mesoamerican region, highlights the achievements of the last decade, and points out the future course that will guide the region's environmental management advancements. There are three main issues...
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Synopsis of the Executive Profile of Environmental Management: Southern Cone Subregion Title: Síntesis del perfil ejecutivo de gestión ambiental: Subregión Cono Sur
Asenjo, Rafael - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
This report delivers systematized information intended to direct the work of the Regional Dialogue, with an emphasis on the efforts that Southern Cone countries. The report includes recommendations on how the countries could improve their environmental institutions and management practices,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944428
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Investing in Biodiversity Conservation: Proceedings of a Workshop
McNeelly, Jeffrey A.; Southgate, Douglas; Smith, David C.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997
This document presents the proceedings of a one-day Workshop on Investing in Biodiversity Conservation held at the … the presentation of key topics on biodiversity financing by five leaders in the field. The second part of the workshop was … dedicated to a discussion and exchange of ideas on the role of the IDB in investing in biodiversity conservation. Three main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216210
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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...
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Managing the Environmental and Social Impacts of a Major IDB Financed Road Improvement Project in Panama: The Case of Darién
Redwood, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
The Environment and Safeguards Group (ESG) of the IDB has examined how potential environmental and social risks of major Bank-supported road improvement investments in natural resource rich and socio-culturally diverse "frontier" regions have been identified and addressed in various parts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010728966
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Principles, Practices, and Challenges for Green Infrastructure Projects in Latin America
Quintero, Juan David - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper proposes a concept of green infrastructure, centered on a multi-level approach to infrastructure development that addresses these impacts. The paper argues that only multi-level solutions, encompassing national policy, sector planning, and sound project engineering, will be able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010728976
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Coastal Setbacks in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Study of Emerging Issues and Trends that Inform Guidelines for Coastal Planning and Development
Simpson, Murray; Clarke, Colleen S.L. Mercer; Clarke, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
associated pressures of pollution, overexploitation of marine and freshwater resources, loss of biodiversity, severe storms, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010728996
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Options Paper: Reducing Climate Risk in IDB Operations
Iqbal, Fareeha Y.; Suding, Paul Hugo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper explores options to minimize threats posed to IDB-financed physical investments by the impacts of climate change. A large proportion of projects are implemented in climate-sensitive sectors (e.g., agriculture, water resources, and transport). In these cases, the norm is to consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729011
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Hydropower Development and Ecosystem Services in Central America
Anderson, Elizabeth P. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper provides an overview of the characteristics of Central American rivers and related freshwater ecosystem services, discusses trends in hydropower development and known environmental and social consequences, and offers suggestions for finding a balance between hydropower and the...
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