Documentos e informes
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Transport Fuel, Taxes, and Urban Air Quality (Inglés)
In developing country cities, fuel use for transport is a growing contributor to air pollution and environmental health risks. One way of applying the polluter pays principle to transport is to adjust...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 184190 Fecha del documento: 31 de diciembre de 2001 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gwilliam,Kenneth M.,Bacon,Robert W.,Kojima,Masami,Lvovsky,Kseniya
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Coordinating Environment, Transport, and Energy Policies for Cleaner Air (Inglés)
Poor urban air quality causes serious environmental health damage in many developing countries. Arriving at effective and sustainable solutions to these problems requires a broad approach that takes into...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 184189 Fecha del documento: 31 de diciembre de 2001 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kojima,Masami,Lovei,Magda
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Foreign direct investment : boon or bane for the environment? (Inglés)
The author offers insights on the significance of foreign direct investment (FDI), as a driving force in sustainable environmental management in developing countries. Its environmental effects depend on...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 20983 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 2000 Autor: GENTRY, BRADFORD S.
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Comparative risk assessment in developing countries (Inglés)
Comparative risk assessment (CRA) has been increasingly used around the world as a useful environmental planning tool. It allows policymakers and managers to focus institutional and financial resources...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 24102 Fecha del documento: 31 de enero de 2000 Autor: Keane,Susan Egan,Cho, Jeannie
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Environmental challenges of fuel use (Inglés)
Among the potential effects of fossil fuel combustion are urban air pollution, acid rain, and changes in global climate. A study of six cities in developing countries and of an industrial area in Poland...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 20760 Fecha del documento: 31 de diciembre de 1999 Autor: Lvovsky,Kseniya,Hughes,Gordon A.
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Environmental funds : the Chinese experience (Inglés)
Environmental funds have become popular in developing and transition economies as a way of channeling money into environmental programs when access to financing for such activities is limited. In countries...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 20759 Fecha del documento: 30 de noviembre de 1999 Autor: Travers,Sumter Lee
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Environmental implications of privatization (Inglés)
Privatization fosters economic efficiency and contributes to governments' fiscal health by relieving them of the burdens of state ownership. Besides these economic benefits, privatization also offers an...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 20758 Fecha del documento: 30 de septiembre de 1999 Autor: Lovei,Magda
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Better environmental decisionmaking : the DSS/IPC (Inglés)
Among the tools available for decisionmakers for assessing environmental problems and arriving at cost-effective solutions is the Decision Support System for Integrated Pollution Control (DSS/IPC). This...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 20761 Fecha del documento: 31 de marzo de 1999 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lvovsky,Kseniya
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Comparative risk assessment (Inglés)
In an imperfect world of finite resources, decisionmakers everywhere are faced with difficult choices about how to deal with environmental problems. Comparative risk assessment (CRA) can help. CRA is a...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 20762 Fecha del documento: 28 de febrero de 1999 Autor: Ijjasz-Vasquez,Ede Jorge,Tlaiye,Laura E.
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Environmental funds (Inglés)
Environmental funds (EFs) are increasingly popular environmental financing mechanisms in developing and transition economies. The failure of governments to tackle environmental problems by putting in place...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 20018 Fecha del documento: 31 de enero de 1999 Autor: Lovei,Magda