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    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2012
    Nicaragua, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Chile, Brazil

    Based on theoretical underpinnings and an empirical review of forest laws and regulations of selected countries throughout the Americas, we examine key components of natural forest management and how they are addressed in the legal frameworks of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, and the U.S.

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    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2012
    Honduras

    The REDD Programme is predicated on the assumption that developed countries will provide sufficient funds to offset opportunity costs associated with avoiding deforestation. The role of non-market values in indigenous land management may challenge the efficacy of compensation schemes targeted at meeting opportunity costs as calculated in traditional opportunity cost analysis (OCA). Furthermore it is unclear how these economic incentives might affect social and cultural values linked to land-use norms, livelihoods, and local governance.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2011
    Mexico

    Under certain circumstances, land titling, property regime changes, and land‐use conversions yield substantial profits. Yet few people possess the wealth, knowledge, and networks to benefit from these procedures. In the Yucatán Peninsula, a region recently targeted as a prominent investment location by the Mexican national government (mainly with the “Tren Maya” megaproject) and the private capital, forestlands collectively owned as ejidos by Mayan peasants are on the trend to complete privatization.

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    Proyecto Ecoeficiencia y desarrollo de infraestructura urbana sostenible en Asia y América Latina (ROA/101)

    Reports & Research
    June, 2011
    South America, Central America, Asia

    El documento tiene tres secciones principales. En el primero, se abarca el tema conceptual y las raíces del desarrollo sustentable. Solamente a través de la construcción de una secuencia desde lo abstracto del concepto mismo hasta la intervención concreta de la ingeniería dura, se puede mostrar el rol de la infraestructura en las transformaciones de las ciudades-regiones y su capacidad de promover un fortalecimiento del desarrollo sustentable.

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    Proyecto Ecoeficiencia y desarrollo de infraestructura urbana sostenible en Asia y América Latina (ROA/101)

    Reports & Research
    July, 2011
    Colombia, South America, Central America, Asia

    El propósito de este análisis ha sido la revisión actualizada de los conceptos, criterios y prácticas que se aplican en las principales ciudades y territorios del Corredor Caribe colombiano (las ciudades distritos de Santa Marta, Barranquilla y Cartagena, y el departamento del Magdalena en su franja de Corredor), en relación con los procesos ambientales y de ecoeficiencia asociados al desarrollo de infraestructuras de servicios.

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