Climate change is both a cause and an effect of biodiversity change. Along with anthropogenic dispersion, climate change is the main driver of change in the geographical distribution of both beneficial...
Poverty reduction strategies (PRSs) provide a central framework for macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in developing countries. Because of the numerous and complex links between environment...
Country Assistance Strategies (CASs) have been periodically reviewed from a variety of different perspectives. This review assesses how environment is integrated in CASs for 2005 and also compares the...
More than 50 countries are in various stages of reparation and implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategies. This report examines the extent to which countries have integrated environmental considerations...
The aim of this paper is to identify indicators that can be used to monitor change at different scales, for different purposes and in a number of different ways. At the national (or sub-national) level...
This report is the outcome of a Country Assistance Strategy and Environment program that was started and aimed to identify practical constraints to incorporating environmental concerns into CASs and to...
This publication presents an evaluation of the Environmental Institutions Development Project in Chile, selected by Bank management to be part of an intensive learning process in final project evaluation...
While tourism is one of the most important economic activities in the Caribbean, its reliance is based uniquely on the natural environment, indicating the resource base upon which all of this economic...
In 1995 the government of Chile hosted a study tour consisting of professionals from the World Bank and from developing countries. This report draws together the observations of one participant and the...
This paper is specifically concerned with economic perspectives on nature tourism in developing countries. Nature tourism is particularly important in the context of sustainable development because it...
Intensive agriculture has led to rapid production growth in Bangladesh in the last decade. However it may also undermine Bangladesh's natural resource base and its environment. The report examines two...