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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... disease resistance or high - growth variance are likely to be progressively supplanted by procedures that can be performed in fairly standard laboratories . Completely novel variants can be produced very rapidly . Such efforts have ...
... disease resistance or high - growth variance are likely to be progressively supplanted by procedures that can be performed in fairly standard laboratories . Completely novel variants can be produced very rapidly . Such efforts have ...
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... diseases . Ten million children were given polio vaccine in India on one day alone . It is likely that poliomyelitis will be eradicated globally by the year 2002 , and there is a possibility that measles may also disappear within that ...
... diseases . Ten million children were given polio vaccine in India on one day alone . It is likely that poliomyelitis will be eradicated globally by the year 2002 , and there is a possibility that measles may also disappear within that ...
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... diseases such as malaria and dengue . Today there are over 300 million new cases of malaria per year , with over 2 million deaths . An increase in surface tem- peratures of three to four degrees Centigrade could increase the incidence ...
... diseases such as malaria and dengue . Today there are over 300 million new cases of malaria per year , with over 2 million deaths . An increase in surface tem- peratures of three to four degrees Centigrade could increase the incidence ...
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... diseases , and deaths in women and children . • Today 1.4 billion people are exposed to dangerous levels of outdoor air pollution , leading to millions of deaths . Energy use is projected to double within 30 years , in large part from ...
... diseases , and deaths in women and children . • Today 1.4 billion people are exposed to dangerous levels of outdoor air pollution , leading to millions of deaths . Energy use is projected to double within 30 years , in large part from ...
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... disease , starvation , resource depletion , and en- vironmental degradation , we see the horror ev- eryday around us . The world is listening . Innovation greets us daily and the conventions , however imperfect , show that we must ...
... disease , starvation , resource depletion , and en- vironmental degradation , we see the horror ev- eryday around us . The world is listening . Innovation greets us daily and the conventions , however imperfect , show that we must ...
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