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Fisheries Management in the Galapagos Marine Reserve: A Bioeconomic Perspective

Conrad, Jon; Franklin, Henrik; Nøstbakken, Linda; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

Despite numerous efforts and a large investment by the Ecuadorian Government and the international community, fishery management in Galapagos remains highly conflictive and essentially ineffective. Levels of mistrust and lack of communication have eroded the governance mechanisms in place to...

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Financing Biodiversity Conservation

Bayón, Ricardo; Lovink, J. Steven; Veening, Wouter J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

Financing the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity has been called one of the greatest challenges. At the … heart of this challenge lies the low financial and political value which is often assigned to biodiversity and the resulting … experimental financing mechanisms that can be used to encourage the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. To help to …

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Rethinking Forest Resource Use Contracts in Latin America

Hardner, Jared J.; Rice, Richard - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

This study challenges the current design of forest resource use contracts in Latin America. Radical rethinking of forest resource contracts is imperative, due to the constraints that now face the successful achievement of forest policy objectives of economic development and conservation of...

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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 …

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Lessons Learned from Implementing the Sustainable Development Program in the State of Acre in Brazil

Dengel, Cristina; Horton, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

The IDB's strategy in Brazil seeks to promote and further the reform and modernization of the public sector, to support efforts to improve the competitiveness of Brazilian goods, to support the efforts to reduce social inequalities and poverty and, finally, to address the problems of...

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Forest Vocation Lands and Forest Policy: When Simpler is Better

Nascimento, José Rente - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

This paper addresses forest policies concerned with the adequate provision of forest related externalities. Despite the use of the forest vocation land (FVL) in the legislation of many Latin American countries, the discussion in the scientific literature about forest policies based on it is...

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Inter-American Development Bank Advanced Profile: Rural Development Policy

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2004

The Bank has developed and implemented several initiatives to reduce poverty and to improve rural competitiveness during the past decade. This document updates and establishes operational principles to guide action in this area so that the stated goals of the Mandate can be effectively achieved....

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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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An Expanded Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) of the Reventazón Hydroelectric Project (PHR), in Costa Rica

Dixon, John A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

As part of project preparation, a standard Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) was carried out for the Reventazón Hydroelectric Project (PHR). This paper builds on that CBA and will prepare an enhanced analysis that explicitly incorporates environmental and social aspects by applying the approach...

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Forest Resource Policy in Latin America Title: Políticas forestales en América Latina

Camino, Ronnie de; Tresierra, Julio C.; López, Ramón; … - Inter-American Development Bank

"Forest Resource Policy in Latin America" gathers the thinking of a score of experts on sustainable use and management of forests, including incentives for investment. The authors tackle the thorny social issues of property rights, deforestation, and forest management and ownership by indigenous...

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