Partnerships for Global Ecosystem Management: Science, Economics, and Law : Proceedings and Reference Readings from the Fifth Annual World Bank Conference on Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, Held at the World Bank and George Washington University, Washington, D.C., October 6-7, 1997, Page 273Ismail Serageldin, Joan Martin-Brown World Bank Publications, 1999 - 272 pages The theme for the fifth annual Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Conference was the scientific, legal, and economic requirements of global ecosystem management. This volume presents readings and examines the outcomes from this conference. The objectives were to engage external experts and Bank managers and staff; to provide a unique opportunity for major professional groups to interact on the requirements to link scientific, economic, and legal solutions for global ecosystem management at the country level; and to promote understanding as to how best practice and innovations can be used for shared ecosystem management in sustainable development planning. |
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... Protocol ; mainstreaming climate change ; strengthening environmental valua- tion ; and the partnerships that we have estab- lished since the Rio Earth Summit , notably in forestry , water resource management , effective pollution ...
... Protocol ; mainstreaming climate change ; strengthening environmental valua- tion ; and the partnerships that we have estab- lished since the Rio Earth Summit , notably in forestry , water resource management , effective pollution ...
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... protocols , so that we are not do- ing everything for the first time . The lesson from science and medicine is that we need to learn from our successes and mistakes by looking care- fully and continuously at the data . In science , as ...
... protocols , so that we are not do- ing everything for the first time . The lesson from science and medicine is that we need to learn from our successes and mistakes by looking care- fully and continuously at the data . In science , as ...
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... Protocol and its subsequent adjust- ments and amendments , society will have to live with stratospheric ozone depletion not only over Antarctica , but over all of the globe , except for the tropics and subtropics , for at least another ...
... Protocol and its subsequent adjust- ments and amendments , society will have to live with stratospheric ozone depletion not only over Antarctica , but over all of the globe , except for the tropics and subtropics , for at least another ...
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... Protocol , and with the U.N. Devel- opment Programme , U.N. Environment Pro- gramme , and U.N. Industrial Development Organization as implementing agencies , the Bank is the largest financier of projects to protect the ozone layer . We ...
... Protocol , and with the U.N. Devel- opment Programme , U.N. Environment Pro- gramme , and U.N. Industrial Development Organization as implementing agencies , the Bank is the largest financier of projects to protect the ozone layer . We ...
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... Protocol of the Vienna Convention to protect the ozone layer . But in terms of action , the priorities for develop- ing countries are less clear - cut . Even " win - win ” opportunities that simultaneously internalize global environment ...
... Protocol of the Vienna Convention to protect the ozone layer . But in terms of action , the priorities for develop- ing countries are less clear - cut . Even " win - win ” opportunities that simultaneously internalize global environment ...
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