This document presents an analytical description of the processes by which Colombian environmental institutions and regulations evolved between 1971 and 2004. The methodology used was based on the analytical framework of the 2003 World Bank Development Report: "Sustainable Development in a...

Durante los noventa, el sector ambiental sufrió importantes cambios institucionales y un incremento sin precedentes en la inversión ambiental. La crisis fiscal de finales de los noventa revirtió esta tendencia y provocó un descenso de la inversión ambiental en los últimos cuatro años....

Este estudio presenta un modelo de elección discreta para examinar los determinantes de la decisión de migrar por parte de los trabajadores agrícolas que participan en la principal cosecha de la región central cafetera de Colombia. Para las estimaciones se utilizaron datos de una encuesta...

The Bogotá Savanna is a fertile Andean plateau located in the central region of Colombia. It is an important agricultural region, and the most industrialized and densely populated area of the country. In this region, human consumption demands most of the available water; the development of the...

The Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta of Colombia is a region of immense cultural, historical, ecological and biological value. However, external interventions have caused serious cultural, social and environmental damage. This case study illustrates how the development of a constitutional, legal and...

This document is a case study that focuses on the air pollution problems of Bogotá and Medellín. These are the largest; most populated and industrialized cities of Colombia. The document presents a brief description of the evolution of relevant institutional aspects. It describes the pollution...

Colombia is one the world´s richest countries in biological resources. To protect them, Colombian Law created the National Parks in 1959. Further regulations for their creation and administration were approved during the seventies. However, they did not include mechanisms to balance...

Since de early seventies a number of technical sanitation alternatives were proposed to clean the wastewaters of the Bogotá River. However, mainly for economic reasons, they were not implemented. It was only until the early nineties that the administration of the city of Bogotá decided to...

Este documento presenta un análisis de los efectos de las reformas introducidas por la Constitución de 1991 y por la Ley 142 de 1994 sobre el desempeño del sector de agua potable y saneamiento básico. Incluye una descripción de esas reformas y del actual marco institucional y regulatorio...

Este documento presenta un análisis de los efectos de las reformas introducidas por la Constitución de 1991 y por la Ley 142 de 1994 sobre el desempeño del sector de aseo domicilario. Incluye una descripción de esas reformas y del actual marco institucional y regulatorio del sector. El...