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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... pollution , the degra- dation of water , and the loss of agricultural pro- ductivity . Therefore , the bulk of the work re- quired to respond to international environmen- tal agreements must be done at the subregional , country , and ...
... pollution , the degra- dation of water , and the loss of agricultural pro- ductivity . Therefore , the bulk of the work re- quired to respond to international environmen- tal agreements must be done at the subregional , country , and ...
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... pollution control , and protecting the world's biodiversity . I tell you this not to impress you with the book , but simply to underline the enormity of the task . And every one of these individual activities rep- resents a world of ...
... pollution control , and protecting the world's biodiversity . I tell you this not to impress you with the book , but simply to underline the enormity of the task . And every one of these individual activities rep- resents a world of ...
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... pollution control to evaluate situations as they are , and to develop rational policies for change . Some of this effort should be undertaken by fulltime employees of the organizations administering the interna- tional development ...
... pollution control to evaluate situations as they are , and to develop rational policies for change . Some of this effort should be undertaken by fulltime employees of the organizations administering the interna- tional development ...
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... pollution charge should be constant ( in present value terms ) . But the tradeoff between distributional effects and emission reductions changes over time , and therefore it may be appropriate to have pollution charges increase ( even ...
... pollution charge should be constant ( in present value terms ) . But the tradeoff between distributional effects and emission reductions changes over time , and therefore it may be appropriate to have pollution charges increase ( even ...
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... pollution know nothing of national frontiers . They do not stop at national borders , so we have to treat these problems as universal . Second , we are not merely in the realm of the present generation ; we must also consider future ...
... pollution know nothing of national frontiers . They do not stop at national borders , so we have to treat these problems as universal . Second , we are not merely in the realm of the present generation ; we must also consider future ...
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