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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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Executive Profile of Environmental Management: Caribbean Sub-region

Tyler, Seth D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

This documents was prepared for the Inter-American Development Bank Regional Policy Dialogue. It analyzes the Caribbean sub-region integrated by The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. This profile provides an overview of...

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Panama Environmental and Social Safeguards Issues Paper: Upstreaming Environmental and Social Risk Management

Redwood, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This discussion paper starts with a brief summary of several important existing Bank-supported environment-related interventions. It is followed by a review of pending issues associated with some of these initiatives, specifically those associated with possible new Bank-financed infrastructure...

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Recent Researches in Energy and Environment

Roberto Revetria Lotfi A. Zadeh Alexander Zemliak, … - Facultatea de Finante şi Banci, Universitatea Spiru Haret - 2011

chemistry, electrochemistry, cogeneration systems, environmental management, biodiversity, sustainability indicators, natural …

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The Future of the Latin American Natural Forests

Dourojeanni, Marc J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

Included in this working paper is a discussion of the history of deforestation and forest degradation in Latin America and policy recommendations towards conserving natural forests. The author argues that the main opportunity to conserve natural forests may be in the recognition of and payment...

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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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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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Principles, Practices, and Challenges for Green Infrastructure Projects in Latin America

Quintero, Juan David - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This paper proposes a concept of green infrastructure, centered on a multi-level approach to infrastructure development that addresses these impacts. The paper argues that only multi-level solutions, encompassing national policy, sector planning, and sound project engineering, will be able to...

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