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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2016
    Bolivia

    Se trata de un caso de resistencia a la ofensiva gubernamental ante los proyectos de infraestructura. La defensa del territorio indígena actualiza el derecho colectivo a la tierra y por ende fortalece las estructuras organizativas de la población.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2016
    Brazil

    A demarcação das Terras Indígenas no Alto Rio Negro, entre dezembro de 1995 e maio de 1996, encerraram 30 anos de lutas dos povos nativos pela garantia de seus territórios e culturas. As cinco terras reconhecidas no final do século passado formam uma área única na faixa de fronteira com Colômbia e Venezuela.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2016
    Brazil

    A Terra do Meio, no sudoeste do Pará, é formada pelas Reserva Extrativista do Rio Iriri, Resex Riozinho do Anfrísio, Resex Rio Xingu, Área de Proteção Ambiental Triunfo do Xingu, Estação Ecológica da Terra do Meio, Parque Nacional da Serra do Pardo e as Terras Indígenas Cachoeira Seca, Xipaya, Curuaya, cobrindo assim uma área protegida de 8,48 milhões de hectares, conectados por uma malha de rios.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2014
    Brazil

    Los quilombolas -descendientes de los esclavos negros- de Erepecuru (Brasil) viven en el medio de la selva amazónica, en una región que abriga el mayor mosaico de áreas protegidas del mundo que incluyen 12,8 millones de hectáreas de unidades de conservación estatales, 1,3 millón de hectáreas de unidades de conservación federales, 7,2 millones de hectáreas de Tierras Indígenas.

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Argentina

    In the Argentina Biodiversity
    Conservation Project, a social assessment (SA) helped the
    Government of Argentina/World Bank team develop a
    cooperative approach to protected areas management. Social
    analysis and participatory research helped the task team
    understand the range of potential social impacts and risks
    to people living in proposed protected areas, and to the
    project itself. The resulting recommendations were put

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Argentina

    The study reviews the challenges water
    resources management faces, and the opportunities for policy
    formulation towards sustainable development in Argentina,
    where regardless of prudent public finances management,
    water resources management remain disproportionately
    backward compared to regional, and international best
    practices. Hence, within a frame of reference on the
    country's population, institutions, and legal

  7. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Colombia

    The analysis of the cost of
    environmental degradation conducted as part of the country
    environmental analysis (CEA) shows that the most costly
    problems associated with environmental degradation are urban
    and indoor air pollution; inadequate water supply,
    sanitation, and hygiene; natural disasters (such as flooding
    and landslides); and land degradation. The burden of these
    costs falls most heavily on vulnerable segments of the

  8. Library Resource
    January, 2015
    Bolivia

    Pollution management is at the top of
    the development agenda of Bolivia, and this program helps
    address it in a cross-sectoral manner. In the context of the
    implementation of the program environmental management in
    Bolivia: innovations and opportunities which was conducted
    from September 2010 until October 2012, the World Bank has
    implemented a technical assistance program and supported a
    multisectoral analysis in order to help the Bolivian

  9. Library Resource
    National Policies
    Suriname, Americas, South America

    The main objective of the present Forest Policy is enhancing the contribution of the forests to the national economy and the welfare of the current and future generations, taking into account the preservation of the biodiversity. Three goals of equal weight are contained in the main objective, namely: 1) Economic goal: Forests will be used efficiently and in a sustainable manner in order to enhance the contribution of the sector to the national economy, including foreign currency, government income, and employment.

  10. Library Resource
    Bolivia

    The objectives of the National Land Administration Project will be to achieve a more efficient and transparent land administration system, clarify the land tenure situation, identify public land suitable for small farmer settlements and promote a more sustainable use of the country's land resources. The project will have a major component improving the land administration system within the current framework and a minor component implementing the legal and institutional land administration reforms, if and when they are introduced.

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