China has an ancient tradition of
hydraulic engineering but in the past half century the
intensity of exploitation of water resources has accelerated
as a result of population and economic growth. The three
major issues for…
The prototype carbon fund (PCF) is a
public-private partnership whose mission is to pioneer a
market for project-based greenhouse gas emission reductions
within the framework of the Kyoto protocol to the United
Nations…
This paper explores the available
literature on participatory approaches to development as an
input to the operations evaluation department (OED)
evaluation of World Bank-supported community-based
development (CBD) and…
China's environmental
degradation has developed over centuries, but record recent
rates of economic growth have now widened environmental
impacts and accelerated many adverse trends. China's
urbanization and…
China's economic development
since the opening of its economy in the late 1970s has
resulted in an eight percent average annual rate of economic
growth. Key facets of this growth are rapidly increasing
domestic and…
Since the 1980s and early 1990s, the
World Bank has been supporting projects that involve
communities own development. This has been largely
manifested in the design and implementation of
community-based development (CBD)…
This document summarizes the wealth of announcements on forests at the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit, including the New York Declaration on Forests, its associated voluntary Action Agenda, and a large number of supportive concrete action announcements.
The New York…
Community forestry offers a tried and true model for approaching national Safeguard Information Systems (SIS) under REDD+. RECOFTC agrees with the global consensus that REDD+ SIS should be based upon existing, equitable and participatory systems. The role that might be played by community…
Based on a mixed economy of private ownership of farmland and public ownership of infrastructure, dispersed parcels of farms could be consolidated through exchange of private ownership and location into compact land units. AGRICULTURE ; LAND ECONOMICS ; OWNERSHIP
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s. Whether it should be part of a global
climate mitigation strategy, however, remains controversial.
One of the key issues is that, contrary to emission
abatement, carbon sequestration might not be permanent. But
some argue…
Over two decades, the World Bank has
undertaken many structural adjustment operations with
governments of developing countries. During negotiations for
structural adjustment loans (SALs), partner governments
agree to…