Understanding livelihoods of artisanal fisheries in marine protected areas in the Colombian Caribbean – A fishing household production model
Greening Markets: Market-Based Approaches for Environmental Management in Asia
This publication explains how market-based instruments can be utilized to improve air quality, water, and waste management in Asia.
Household Demand For Improved Water Services in Ho Chi Minh City: A Comparison of Contingent Valuation and Choice Modeling Estimates
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This study assesses the willingness of people in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to pay for improvement in their water supply system. It also investigates what aspects of water supply, such as quality and water pressure, are most important. The study was carried out in response to the growing number of water supply problems in the city. It was also done to highlight the need for 'consumer demand' to be given priority in water supply planning.
Decentralized Forest Management: Experimental and Quasi-experimental Evidence
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Developing country forests sustain livelihoods, help to control flooding, recharge aquifers, pollinate crops, cycle nutrients, harbor biodiversity, and sequester carbon. As a result, forest loss and degradation have serious environmental and socioeconomic consequences. Decentralization and devolution of governance have arguably been the most important policy trend affecting developing countries’ forests over the past three decades.
The value of forest water purification ecosystem services in Costa Rica
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Highlights
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• Avoiding 1% of catchment's forest loss reduces chemicals use by 0.026% in Costa Rica.
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• Improving the turbidity by 1% decreases 0.005% aluminum sulfate needed at the water plants.
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• The value of water purification service by forests is USD 9.5 per hectare per year.
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• The contribution of forest (per ha) becomes larger as the size of the catchment decreases.
Mining for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in Africa
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Forr a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks. Countries dependent on oil, gas, and mining have tended to have weaker long-run growth, higher rates of poverty, and greater income inequality than less resource-abundant economies. For these resource producing economies relative prices make it more difficult to diversify into activities outside of the resource sector, limiting structural change.