Download or read book Environmental Statistics for Belize written by Belize. Central Statistical Office and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmental Statistics for Belize 2000 written by Belize. Ministry of Economic Development and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmental Statistics for Belize written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Belize National Report to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development UNCED written by Belize. Department of the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Belize written by International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belize is exceptionally vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change. It already faces hurricanes, flooding, sea level rise, coastal erosion, coral bleaching, and droughts, with impacts likely to intensify given expected increases in weather volatility and sea temperature. Hence, planning for resilience-building, and engagement with development partners on environmental reforms, have been central to Belizean policymaking for many years, since well before Belize submitted its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Accord in 2015. This Climate Change Policy Assessment (CCPA) takes stock of Belize’s plans to manage its climate response, from the perspective of their macroeconomic and fiscal implications. The CCPA is a joint initiative by the IMF and World Bank to assist small states to understand and manage the expected economic impact of climate change, while safeguarding long-run fiscal and external sustainability. It explores the possible impact of climate change and natural disasters on the macroeconomy and the cost of Belize’s planned response. It suggests macroeconomically relevant reforms that could strengthen the likelihood of success of the national strategy and identifies policy gaps and resource needs.

Download or read book Draft Environmental Profile on Belize written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Belize written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Compendium on Environmental Protection and Natural Resource Management Legislation in Belize written by Winston McCalla and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Belize Environmental Report written by World Bank : Latin America and Caribbean Region and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Roads lands markets and deforestation written by Kenneth Chomitz and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Analysis of Investment Process in Health and the Environment in Belize written by Regional Plan for Investment in the Environment and Health and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book BELIZE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT written by BANCA INTERNAZIONALE PER LA RICOSTRUZIONE E LO SVILUPPO (BIRS) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Roads Lands Markets and Deforestation written by Kenneth Chomitz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April 1995 Will intensifying the road network around market areas produce greater economic returns and less environmental damage than extending the road network into new areas? Rural roads promote economic development but also facilitate deforestation. To explore the tradeoffs between development and environmental damage posed by road building, Chomitz and Gray develop and estimate a spatially explicit model of land use. This model takes into account location and land characteristics and predicts land use at each point on the landscape. They find that: * Market access and distance to roads strongly affect the probability of agricultural use, especially for commercial agriculture. * High slopes, poor drainage, and low soil fertility discourage both commercial and semi-subsistence agriculture. * Semi-subsistence agriculture is especially sensitive to soil acidity and lack of nitrogen (confirming anthropological findings that subsistence farmers are shrewd judges of soil). Spatially explicit models are analytically powerful because they exploit rich spatial variation in causal variables, including the precise siting of roads. They are useful for policy because they can pinpoint threats to particular critical habitats and watersheds. This model is a descendant of the venerable von Thünen model. It assumes that land will tend to be devoted to its highest-value use, taking into account tenure and other constraints. The value of a plot for a particular use depends on the land's physical productivity for that use and the farmgate prices of relevant inputs and outputs. A reduced-form, multinomial logit specification of this model calculates implicit values of land in alternative uses as a function of land location and characteristics. The resulting equations can then be used for prediction or analysis. The model was applied to cross-sectional data for 1989-92 for Belize, a forested country currently experiencing rapid expansion of both subsistence and commercial agriculture. A geographic information system was used to manage the spatial data and extract variables based on a three kilometer sample grid. Three land uses were distinguished: natural vegetation, comprising forests, woodlands, wetlands, and savanna; semi-subsistence agriculture, comprising traditional milpa (slash-and-burn) cultivation and other nonmechanized cultivation of annual crops; and commercial agriculture, consisting mainly of sugarcane, pasture, citrus, and mechanized production of corn and kidney beans. Two dimensions of distance to market were distinguished: the distance from each sample point to the road, and on-road travel time to the nearest town. Data on a wide variety of land and soil characteristics were also used. This paper -- a product of the Environment, Infrastructure, and Agriculture Division, Policy Research Department -- is part of a larger effort in the department to understand the causes and consequences of environmental change. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project Spatial Models of Environmental Processes (RPO 679-39). The authors may be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected].

Download or read book Statistical Methods for Climate Scientists written by Timothy DelSole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to statistical methods for students in the climate sciences.

Download or read book Statistical Analysis of Climate Extremes written by Manfred Mudelsee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The risks posed by climate change and its effect on climate extremes are an increasingly pressing societal problem. This book provides an accessible overview of the statistical analysis methods which can be used to investigate climate extremes and analyse potential risk. The statistical analysis methods are illustrated with case studies on extremes in the three major climate variables: temperature, precipitation, and wind speed. The book also provides datasets and access to appropriate analysis software, allowing the reader to replicate the case study calculations. Providing the necessary tools to analyse climate risk, this book is invaluable for students and researchers working in the climate sciences, as well as risk analysts interested in climate extremes.