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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,...

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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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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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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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IDB Biofuels Sustainability Scorecard

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2009

This document presents the IDB Biofuels Sustainability Scorecard user's guide. The primary objective of the Scorecard is to provide a tool to think through the complex issues associated with biofuels from the field to the tank, thereby encouraging higher levels of sustainability in such...

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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...

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