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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... approach this now on the basis that the only way that we are going to make a difference is if we can begin to ... approach our work in a more systemic format , understanding that unless you get the pieces together , you can be pleased ...
... approach this now on the basis that the only way that we are going to make a difference is if we can begin to ... approach our work in a more systemic format , understanding that unless you get the pieces together , you can be pleased ...
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... approaches to the issues of social and environmental development . We can no longer just pick at one project after another ... approach these challenges first , with a sense of enthusiasm to weld those partnerships ; second , with a very ...
... approaches to the issues of social and environmental development . We can no longer just pick at one project after another ... approach these challenges first , with a sense of enthusiasm to weld those partnerships ; second , with a very ...
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... approach to managing the whole range of activities through which we im- pact on our environment and , indeed , shape our future . That is what it is all about . It is intrinsi- cally a partnership in which no one actor can determine the ...
... approach to managing the whole range of activities through which we im- pact on our environment and , indeed , shape our future . That is what it is all about . It is intrinsi- cally a partnership in which no one actor can determine the ...
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... approaches raise major new ethi- cal questions . The whole of the human genome will have been completely sequenced within the first decade of the next millennium . Every month we read of the identification of a new suscepti- bility gene ...
... approaches raise major new ethi- cal questions . The whole of the human genome will have been completely sequenced within the first decade of the next millennium . Every month we read of the identification of a new suscepti- bility gene ...
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... approach . You may not realize it , but if you develop cancer , what happens to you can be somewhat of a lottery . I am not trying to frighten you , but you should know about this . Perhaps your primary care pro- vider may refer you to ...
... approach . You may not realize it , but if you develop cancer , what happens to you can be somewhat of a lottery . I am not trying to frighten you , but you should know about this . Perhaps your primary care pro- vider may refer you to ...
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