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  1. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Bangladesh

    This report studies the impact that gender differences in Bangladesh have on access to energy and energy services and the consequences of these impacts based on review of recent literature on the matter. The report concludes that the structural gender differences that arise from cultural and religious norms can lead to various impacts in access to energy services which in turn can have long term consequences on women and all these factors must be considered while designing rural energy- gender projects.

  2. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Ecuador

    The World Bank's revised forest
    policy came into being in 2002 and covers all types of
    forests. It has the following key objectives: (i) harnessing
    the potential of forests to reduce poverty in a sustainable
    manner; (ii) integrating forests effectively into
    sustainable development; and (iii) protecting vital local
    and global environmental services and values. The policy
    enables the bank to fully engage in forestry throughout the

  3. Library Resource
    May, 2014
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    The current assessment builds on
    previously published reviews of poverty reduction strategy
    programs (PRSPs), and is the sixth report in a series. This
    paper aims at presenting a clearer picture of how PRSPs
    influence the developmental agenda in 11 African countries
    by assessing the level of environmental mainstreaming in the
    Poverty Reduction Strategy Process. The paper includes the
    following headings: introduction; framework for assessment;

  4. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Costa Rica

    Costa Rica's Program of Payments
    for Environmental Services (Pago de Servicios Ambientales,
    PSA) provides a unique opportunity to evaluate direct
    payments as a conservation policy tool. This paper reports
    evidence on how much more forest has been conserved in Costa
    Rica as a result of PSA contracts with landowners. Such
    evidence requires estimating a counterfactual outcome: how
    much forest would have been preserved if there had been no

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    Although much has been written about
    climate change and poverty as distinct and complex problems,
    the link between them has received little attention.
    Understanding this link is vital for the formulation of
    effective policy responses to climate change. This paper
    focuses on agriculture as a primary means by which the
    impacts of climate change are transmitted to the poor, and
    as a sector at the forefront of climate change mitigation

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2012
    Asia, Central Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe

    This study reviews how the integration of environmental concerns into agriculture and forestry is progressing in the countries of Southeastern Europe (SEE) and of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia (EECCA) since 2000 and assesses prospects for the future. The present report is a contribution to the environment for Europe process. At the Fifth Ministerial Conference in Kiev in 2003, participants decided to pay greater attention to the needs of the EECCA and adopted an environmental strategy for the sub-region.

  7. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Peru

    This book argues that Peru faces an
    unprecedented opportunity to become the next success story
    in Latin America. In the coming five years, policy making
    could put the country on a development path similar to the
    one that, say, Chile, Costa Rica, or Spain have followed
    over the last two decades. This book includes 32
    sector-specific chapters and 2 historical perspectives that
    precede them. The beginning chapter, a synthesis, builds a

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    There are many causes, consequences, and
    connections of deforestation and forest poverty in the
    tropical world. This report specifically addresses the
    potential dilemma of trade-offs between poverty reduction
    and environmental protection. It seeks to improve the
    diagnosis of forest problems and facilitate the prescription
    and application of solutions by focusing on both the causes
    and consequences of forest conversion to agriculture and on

  9. Library Resource
    February, 2013

    This policy note, Environmental
    Management for a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy
    for Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, investigates six environmental
    management topics which will affect the capacity of the
    province to develop the economy and need to be underpinned
    by strong environmental and natural resource management. The
    six topics cover: agriculture, forestry, fisheries, land and
    water, environmental law and regulations, and spatial

  10. Library Resource
    May, 2012

    This study is intended to be a
    systematic and practical guide to the basic features of
    modern forestry legislation. It identifies a range of issues
    that should be considered in assessing the adequacy of
    forest laws and presents options for addressing those issues
    in ways that may improve the effectiveness of law as a
    foundation for sustainable forest management. Part One
    locates forestry law within the wider legal framework,

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