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Conservation is often viewed as a
tradeoff between the development of short-term benefits and
protection for long-term benefits. However, with the
appropriate mechanisms, it is possible to achieve both aims.
The justification to protect parks in developing countries
can be based on an economic rationale rather than a
primarily social or environmental one. Enhancing the revenue
earning potential of protected areas from tourism, and
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Parks and protected areas are valuable
assets to developing nations, whether viewed as
environmental, economic or social goods. Nevertheless, to
date there are few examples where the full potential
economic rent of protected areas has been captured
efficiently or distributed effectively. This severely limits
the capacity of developing nations to sustain their natural
resources. In Sub-Saharan Africa the crisis is acute,
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África, África subsahariana
The Sahel Operational Review (SOR) seeks
to accelerate the transfer of lessons learned in natural
resource management from ongoing Bank projects to the design
of new Bank projects. This paper is the final report of the
second phase of the SOR. It summarizes 29 SOR activities
between 1989 and July 1994, including project reviews,
seminars, workshops, conferences, and studies. This final
report is an attempt to incorporate the major lessons and
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The objective of the project is to
improve the environmental management capacity in Madagascar
through the implementation of institutional development and
emergency actions. Project components included: (i)
protection and management of biodiversity; (ii)
community-based soil conservation and watershed management;
(iii) mapping and remote sensing for improved natural
resources management; (iv) improved land security through
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In the Argentina Biodiversity
Conservation Project, a social assessment (SA) helped the
Government of Argentina/World Bank team develop a
cooperative approach to protected areas management. Social
analysis and participatory research helped the task team
understand the range of potential social impacts and risks
to people living in proposed protected areas, and to the
project itself. The resulting recommendations were put
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Tourism is one of Latin America's
fastest growing industries, outranking remittances and even
drugs in many countries as a source of foreign exchange. But
the impact of tourism on the poor and on the environment
remains under debate. Certainly many suspect that tourism
does more harm than good, damaging the environment and
leaving the poor worse off while shipping profits overseas.
But few have actually analyzed the impact of tourism on the
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