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Book The Social Challenge of Biodiversity Conservation

Download or read book The Social Challenge of Biodiversity Conservation written by Guillermo Castilleja and published by Washington, D.C. : World Bank. This book was released on 1993 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Directory of Impact Assessment Guidelines

Download or read book A Directory of Impact Assessment Guidelines written by International Institute for Environment and Development and published by IIED. This book was released on 1998 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environmental Evaluation and Global Development Institutions

Download or read book Environmental Evaluation and Global Development Institutions written by Geeta Batra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluation is increasingly important for finding sustainable solutions for the people and the planet, based on a systematic analysis of what works, for whom, and under what circumstances, and to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, as they pertain to the environment. This book explores why the Global Environment Facility (GEF) invests in evaluation for accountability and learning to inform its decision-making on programming priorities, and how this leads to wiser funding decisions and better program performance on the ground. The book is based on real-life experiences of how to make evaluation count for international environmental action. Drawing upon comprehensive evaluations of the GEF, it provides unique insights from authors responsible for designing, implementing, and disseminating the findings of the evaluations. No other multilateral development or environment agency places evaluation fully at the center of their decision-making. The book outlines the trends in the global environment and the changing landscape of international environmental finance. It defines the role of the GEF and explains its institutional framework and the unique partnership that involves donor and recipient countries, multilateral development banks, UN agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and national agencies in the developing countries. Further, it provides useful pointers to other organizations wishing to enhance evidence-based decision-making for improving their relevance, performance, and impact. The book will be most suitable for graduate-level, specialized study in a variety of disciplines such as environmental and development economics, political science, international relations, geography, sociology, and social anthropology. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Book At Loggerheads

    Book Details:
  • Author : Piet Buys
  • Publisher : World Bank Publications
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0821367366
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book At Loggerheads written by Piet Buys and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report offers a simple framework for policy analysis by identifying three forest types: frontiers and disputed lands; lands beyond the agricultural frontier; and, mosaic lands where forests and agriculture coexist. It collates geographic and economic information for each type that will help formulate poverty-reducing forest policy.

Book Shock Waves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephane Hallegatte
  • Publisher : World Bank Publications
  • Release : 2015-11-23
  • ISBN : 1464806748
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book Shock Waves written by Stephane Hallegatte and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines the potential impact of climate change and climate policies on poverty reduction. It also provides guidance on how to create a “win-win†? situation so that climate change policies contribute to poverty reduction and poverty-reduction policies contribute to climate change mitigation and resilience building. The key finding of the report is that climate change represents a significant obstacle to the sustained eradication of poverty, but future impacts on poverty are determined by policy choices: rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent most short-term impacts whereas immediate pro-poor, emissions-reduction policies can drastically limit long-term ones.

Book Sustaining Forests

    Book Details:
  • Author : World Bank
  • Publisher : World Bank Publications
  • Release : 2004-05-01
  • ISBN : 0821383469
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book Sustaining Forests written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank's Forests Strategy, adopted in October 2002, charts a path for the Bank's proactive engagement in the sector to help attain the goal of poverty reduction without jeopardizing the environmental values intrinsic to sustainability. This strategy replaces the Bank's 1991 Forestry Strategy, and was developed on the basis of the findings of an independent review of the 1991 strategy and a two-year consultative process with development partners and stakeholders around the world. The revised strategy, Sustaining Forests, is built on three guiding pillars: harnessing the potential of forests to reduce poverty, integrating forests into sustainable economic development, and protecting global forest values. Recognizing the key role forests play in contributing to the livelihoods of people living in extreme poverty, government and local ownership of forest policies and interventions are emphasized along with the development of appropriate institutions to ensure good governance and the mainstreaming of forests into national development planning. The strategy also aims to support ecologically, socially and economically sound management of production forests by ensuring good management practices through application of safeguard procedures and independent monitoring and certification. Implementation of the strategy will center on building and strengthening partnerships with the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and other donor agencies to promote better forest conservation and management at country and global levels.

Book Social Assessment of Conservation Initiatives

Download or read book Social Assessment of Conservation Initiatives written by Kate Schrekenberg and published by IIED. This book was released on 2010 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite widely voiced concerns about some of the negative implications of protected areas, and growing pressures to ensure that they fulfil social as well as ecological objectives, no standard methods exist to assess social impacts. This report aims to provide some.

Book Forests Sourcebook

    Book Details:
  • Author : World Bank
  • Publisher : World Bank Publications
  • Release : 2008-04-25
  • ISBN : 0821371649
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Forests Sourcebook written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-04-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Forests Sourcebook' provides practical operations-oriented guidance for forest sector engagement toward the goals of poverty reduction, conservation and economic development. Intended to guide World Bank lending activities and projects, the 'Forests Sourcebook' offers information useful to a broad audience of practitioners, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations. The 'Sourcebook was developed in partnership with members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, including the Food and Agriculture Organization. The 'Sourcebook' provides background on key issues, lessons learned, and recommendations for practitioners on a number of topics including private sector engagement, forest governance, sustainable plantation and commercial harvesting, and forest information management systems. Giving insight into the complex interplay between different realms of development work that effect or are affected by forests, the 'Forests Sourcebook' is a valuable tool for any stakeholder involved in development or business projects that could have impact on forests.

Book Proceedings

    Book Details:
  • Author : International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. General Assembly
  • Publisher : IUCN
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 2831702267
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Proceedings written by International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. General Assembly and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1994 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World Bank and the Environment

Download or read book The World Bank and the Environment written by World Bank Staff and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains the annual review for fiscal 1996 (July 1995-June 1996) and a 10-year accounting of the project portfolio in a project matrix (Appendix). The annual review portion of the publication is divided into four sections:an overview, a series of regional review, a set of reviews on a spectrum of environmental and social issues, and a brief scan of relevant publications. The environmental and social issues discussed include:biodiversity conservation; fostering global warming solutions through energy efficiency, demand side management and renewable technologies; linking physical environmental effects to economic impacts; legal aspects of environmental management; building strategic alliance to avoid duplicating efforts in environmental work; Bank's work on pollution management and technology policy; engaging private sector into environmental investments; enhancing participatory approaches in decisionmaking; and freshwater, coastal and marine resource management. In addition, a new column called Reflection sets the context for the Bank's work in the larger global agenda drawn up in Rio's Agenda 21 in 1992.

Book GEF Country Portfolio Evaluation

Download or read book GEF Country Portfolio Evaluation written by Global Environment Facility. Evaluation Office and published by GEF Evaluation Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World Bank Forest Strategy

Download or read book The World Bank Forest Strategy written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report assesses progress since the World Bank first issued its comprehensive Forest Strategy in 1991. It finds that the effectiveness of the strategy has been modest, and the sustainability of its impact is uncertain. The Report identifies seven factors that would make the World Bank forest strategy more pertinent to current circumstances as well as strengthening its ability to achieve its strategic objectives in the forest sector. It recommends that the World Bank use its global reach to address mechanisms for mobilisation of concessional international resources outside its normal lending activities. It also advises the World Bank to be proactive in establishing partnerships with all relevant stakeholders, governments, the private sector, and civil society to meet both its country and global roles. The focus on primary tropical moist forests should be broadened to include all types of natural forests of national and global value. The report suggests that illegal logging needs to be reduced through the promotion of improved governance and enforcement. Other recommendations are to give consideration to forest issues in all relevant sector activity and macroeconomic work, address the employment needs of all poor people while continuing to protect the rights of indigenous people, and to realign the World Bank resources with their objectives in the forest sector.

Book Biological Diversity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louise E. Buck
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2001-06-21
  • ISBN : 1420042599
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book Biological Diversity written by Louise E. Buck and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world of wide pendulum swings regarding management policies for protected areas, particularly as they affect the involvement of local people in management. Such swings can be polarizing and halt on-the-ground progress. There is a need to find ways to protect biodiversity while creating common ground and building management capacity thr

Book The Indigenous World 2007

Download or read book The Indigenous World 2007 written by Sille Stidsen and published by IWGIA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Yearbook covers the period January-December 2006 and provides an update on the state of affairs of indigenous peoples worldwide through: region and country reports covering most of the indigenous world; and updated information on the international and regional processes relating to indigenous peoples. Thanks to the contributions from indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and activists, The Indigenous World 2007 gives an overview of crucial developments in 2006 that have impacted on the indigenous peoples of the world. The Indigenous World 2007 is a source of information and an indispensable tool for those who need to be informed about the most recent issues and developments within the indigenous world.