Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Policymakers' Informational Needs -- 3 Models and Analytical Approaches -- 4 Economic Considerations -- 5 Enhancing Analytical Capabilities -- Select Bibliography -- A Workshop Agenda -- B Speaker and Panelist Biographical Information.

Urban sustainability has been one of the most important issues in the last decades. The modification of watercourses and their integration to power production facilities have resulted in severe environmental impacts around the globe. This study presents a sustainability analysis to examine the...

In this paper, we examine several channels through which environmental economics has affected the World Bank's development agenda. We also describe the evolution of environmental economics at the Bank. At the macro level, we examine the growing influence of resource and environmental accounting...

Payments for environmental services (PES) have attracted increasing interest as a mechanism to translate external, non-market values of the environment into real financial incentives for local actors to provide environmental services (ES). In this introductory paper, we set the stage for the...

Payments for environmental services (PES) are an innovative approach to conservation that has been applied increasingly often in both developed and developing countries. To date, however, few efforts have been made to systematically compare PES experiences. Drawing on the wealth of case studies...