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An Overview of Agricultural Pollution in Vietnam : Summary Report 2017

Cassou, Emilie - 2017

Less. In this regard, tackling agricultural pollution represents a key challenge for Vietnam. Pollution has started to take … evidence and public concern about pollution have led the Vietnamese government to adopt a new outlook and to take measures to … evidence on the nature and magnitude of agricultural pollution in Vietnam, looking across the livestock, aquaculture, and crops …

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An Overview of Agricultural Pollution in Vietnam : The Livestock Sector

Dinh, Tung Xuan - 2017

broad national overview on (a) pollution related to livestock development-its magnitude, impacts, and drivers; (b) measures … that are currently in place to manage or mitigate waste pollution in different farming systems and the potential for …

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Strategies to Fight the Globalization Trap

Wolfensohn, James D. - 2000

James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the concept of a globalization trap that have gotten support from quite a few critical publications recently. His concern with regards to globalization centers on two aspects of the problem. The first aspect is an increasingly...

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Better Use of Capital to Deliver Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Services : Practical Examples and Suggested Next Steps

Kingdom, Bill - 2018

The costs of meeting the SDG WASH targets will be several times higher than investment levels during the MDG era (2000-15). The immense scale of the financing gap calls for innovative solutions. In addition to mobilizing more funding another approach is to deliver the needed infrastructure more...

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City-Wide Inclusive Water Supply : Refocusing on Off-Grid Solutions for Addressing Sustainable Development Goal 6.1

Misra, Smita - 2019

The objective of this report is to better understand the challenges of meeting Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 from the perspective of off-grid services currently being used by a large and increasing proportion of the urban population. For this assessment, two key distinct areas with high...

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Citywide Inclusive Water Supply : Adopting Off-Grid Solutions to Achieve the SDGs

Misra, Smita - 2019

Today about 676 million urban residents, many of them poor, do not have access to the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) definition of "safely managed" water supplies. They receive an off-grid water supply service that is not safely managed, accessible, or affordable, and thus not compliant with...

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Sustainability of Demand Responsive Approaches to Rural Water Supply : The Case of Kerala

Andres, Luis - 2017

This paper presents the findings of an impact evaluation to assess the performance and sustainability of the demand responsive community-based approach toward rural water supply in the state of Kerala, India. To achieve the study's objectives, conceptual definitions of the "performance" and...

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Easing the Transition to Commercial Finance for Sustainable Water and Sanitation

Goksu, Amanda - 2017

Providing sustainable water supply and sanitation (WSS) services in developing countries remains an immense, and increasingly urgent, challenge. Chapter two sets out how the sector is currently funded and why business as usual is insufficient for meeting WSS-related goals, covering the size of...

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Livable Cities for the 21st Century : The Post Habitat II Agenda for the World Bank

Wolfensohn, James D. - 1997

Habitat II, the second United Nations conference on human settlements, also known as the "City Summit," concluded its work on June 14, 1996, in Istanbul. Habitat II indelibly marked the increasingly urban nature of the world and the urgency, extent, and increasing size of problems facing people...

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Multi-hazard groundwater risks to the drinking water supply in Bangladesh : challenges to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Shamsudduha, Mohammad; Joseph, George; Haque, Sabrina S.; … - 2019

Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found throughout Bangladesh but its quality (that is, arsenic and salinity contamination) and quantity (that is, water storage depletion) vary across hydrological environments, posing unique...

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