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Impacts of Transmission and Distribution Projects on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Policy Papers & Briefs
Novembro, 2010

The Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change (SFDCC) approved in 2008 guides and supports the operational response of the World Bank Group (WBG) to new development challenges posed by climate change. One activity pursued by the SFDCC is to further develop and test methods to analyze climate risks and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the project level.

Changing Trend and Sustainable Development of Farmland Resources in Pingdingshan City, China

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Journal Articles & Books
Novembro, 2010
China

The grey forecast and the sustainable use evaluation are conducted on the data of farmland resources from 2010 to 2020 in Pingingshan City by using the area of farmland land from 1999 to 2010 and by applying the gray forecast and land pressure system.

The Role of Biodiversity and Ecosystems in Sustainable Development

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Novembro, 2010

Biologically diverse ecosystems in countries served by the World Bank provide an array of valuable economic services. While the benefits of conserving ecosystems frequently outweigh the costs, conversion of these ecosystems to other uses occurs anyway, because many ecosystem benefits are of a public good nature, without markets that would reflect their real value.

Assessing the Environmental Co-Benefits of Climate Change Actions

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Novembro, 2010

This internal background paper has been prepared to help inform the 2010 environment strategy with respect to a proposed way forward on use of country systems. The World Bank Group environment strategy is built on three pillars: leveraging natural resources for growth and poverty reduction; managing the environmental risks to growth and development; and transforming growth paths.

Planning-Based Approaches for Supporting Sustainable Landscape Development

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Peer-reviewed publication
Outubro, 2010

Planning often yields only limited influence on policy making. This paper explores how planning could address this
challenge and support most effectively transitions towards sustainable landscape change. In merging insights from
sustainability science research and nine recently concluded case studies of landscape planning, the paper reflects

A school in a Cambodian Slum

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Outubro, 2010
Cambodia

Youth Bamboo Shoots Slum School (YBSSS) is a project of VFI Cambodia. 

The goal: to provide a safe and creative place for over 65 children to attend school in the dilapidated slum area near Battambang City's central railway station.

 

Unfinished Business

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Setembro, 2010

Backed by sound economic policies and until the global crisis, a buoyant global economy, many developing countries made significant movement toward achieving the 2015millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly those for poverty reduction, gender parity in education, and reliable access to safe water.

Conceptual model development for landscape management in the mountains of the Indian Himalayan region: an approach for sustainable socio-ecological development

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Peer-reviewed publication
Setembro, 2010
Índia

This study aims at presenting a conceptual model for landscape management in the Himalayan region of India,
using quantitative/mathematical approach. Keeping in view the requirement, (based on fifteen years empirical
field work in the Himalayan region and as well as literature survey) the MODAM (Multiple Objectives Decision

Construction of the Classification and Grading Index System of Cultivated Land Based on the Viewpoint of Sustainable Development

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Journal Articles & Books
Setembro, 2010
China

In order to objectively and reasonably evaluate the actual and potential value of cultivated land, both social and ecological values are introduced into the classification and grading index system of cultivated land based on the viewpoint of sustainable development, after considering the natural and economic values of cultivated land.