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Alternatives for Habitat Protection and Rural Income Generation
Southgate, Douglas - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997
, examination of the rewards local populations can expect to derive from ecotourism and the harvesting of nontimber forest products … to capture more of the net returns from ecotourism, genetic prospecting, and so forth would probably not benefit them …
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291851
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Tourism Policy, a Big Push to Employment: Evidence from a Multiple Synthetic Control Approach
Maffioli, Alessandro; Castillo, Victoria; Garone, Lucas … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of tourism policy on employment, using the Tourism Development Policy (TDP … evaluated policy -one specific sector in one province- we also construct a synthetic control for the tourism sector using a … tourism employment in Salta by an average of 11 percent per year, for an overall impact of around 112 percent between 2003 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240365
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009206133
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Coastal and Marine Resources Management in Latin America and the Caribbean
Lemay, Michele H. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
bring the Bank's interventions in sectors such as marine fisheries, tourism, maritime transport and pollution control in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193609
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Facing the Challenges of Sustainable Development: The IDB and the Environment: 1992-2002
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2002
environmental sustainability. The IDB prepared this document with a particular focus on the environment and this document sets forth … the essential elements of the institution's environment strategy in order to obtain feedback from the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216183
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Medio ambiente: Estrategia sectorial (2003)
Inter-American Development Bank; Banco Interamericano … - 2003
La estrategia de medio ambiente (GN-2208-4) es un instrumento rector cuyo objetivo fundamental es lograr mayor eficacia en el respaldo que el Banco brinda a los países prestatarios de América Latina y el Caribe para que éstos alcancen sus metas de desarrollo sustentable. Establece principios...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673034
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Facing the Challenges of Sustainable Development: The IDB and the Environment: 1992-2002
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2002
environmental sustainability. The IDB prepared this document with a particular focus on the environment and this document sets forth … the essential elements of the institution's environment strategy in order to obtain feedback from the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653138
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Manejo integrado de los recursos hídricos en América Latina y el Caribe
García, Luis E. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
En este informe técnico figura la estrategia del Banco para su participación en el manejo integrado de los recursos hídricos en América Latina y el Caribe. La estrategia fue formulada mediante un procedimiento gradual de iteración y en consulta con funcionarios nacionales responsables de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655114