Boiling point: containing the spill over of climate change on the Indian subcontinent
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Guiding principles for successful reforms of urban water supply and sanitation sectors
The primary objective of this report is to provide practical guidance to World Bank teams advising on the design and implementation of reforms of urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) sectors. The reform of urban WSS sectors is needed to increase access to the infrastructure, improve efficiency of operations, and enhance the reliability, sustainability and affordability of the service.
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Green transport: resource optimization in the road sector in the Peoples Republic of China - executive summary
This report examines how the development of the road system in the People
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The 2009 greenhouse gas and climate change: workforce needs assessment survey report
This Greenhouse Gas and Climate Change Workforce Needs Assessment Survey was created to uncover some of the unique challenges facing this growing and diverse industry and, specifically, to obtain data regarding industry perceptions, growth projections, workforce needs, policy responses, favored/disfavored protocols, human capital needs and training practices, and other key developments related to
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The changing himalayas: impact of climate change on water resources and livelihoods in the greater Himalayas
The greater Himalayan region and its water resources play an important role in global atmospheric circulation, biodiversity, etc while serving more than 1.3 billion people in the basin areas of ten large Asian rivers. This paper discusses these issues, the need to close the knowledge gap, the need for adaptation strategies, and the importance of strengthening local knowledge for adaptation.
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Climate change and transport: promoting environmentally sustainable transport in the Peoples Republic of China
This paper is an analysis of challenges faced by the transport sector and discusses the key issues of sustainability, resource optimization, and climate change. Affordability, transportation equity, and environmental sustainability are some of the key issues discussed in the paper.
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Medicinal plants in conservation and development: case studies and lessons learnt
Traditional medicine, based largely on herbs, still supports the primary healthcare of more people worldwide than
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FAO/WFP joint guidelines for crop and food security assessment missions (CFSAMs)
This guidelines provide basic information and practical guidance for anyone who participates in a FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) - whether as a FAO/WFP core team member, a government or other agency participant, or a donor observer.
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Greening development planning
Different approaches to making the economic case for improved management of natural capital in national planning are reviewed in this report. In many low-income countries natural resources sectors (agriculture, mining, forestry, fishery, nature-based tourism) are identified as the engines of economic growth.
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Climate change and the World Bank Group: an evaluation of World Bank win-win energy policy reforms
This report finds, among other issues, that fuel pricing is a key policy affecting emissions and that important information for the design and management of emissions-related policies is missing. The report constitutes the first phase of a broader analysis of the Bank
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Infrastructures role in lowering Asia's trade costs: building for trade
Infrastructure is shown to be a cost-effective means of lowering trade costs and thereby promoting regional growth and integration. This report combines thematic and country studies, while breaking new ground in quantifying infrastructure's impact on Asia's trade costs.
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Positioning the Indian coal-power sector for carbon mitigation: key policy options
This paper describes policy options that could help India reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coalfired electricity while meeting the country
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Urban bus specifications
An efficient, effective, eco-and consumer-friendly Urban Transportation-without which cities can become immobile-is the need of the country in this century. If the look and feel of public transport is not improved substantially and on an urgent basis across various cities; to a level that it can be sold to
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Task force draft of Kerala road development policy 2009-21
Provision of adequate infrastructure is a prerequisite for sustained growth of economy and inherent to such growth is the need to ensure cost-effective movement of people and goods. An efficient road infrastructure is therefore an essential requirement. Over the successive five year plans, investment in road infrastructure has been increasing progressively in the state.
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Alternative fuels and advanced technology vehicles: issues in congress
High levels of oil imports and high crude oil and gasoline prices in recent years have led to increased interest in the U.S. fuel supply. Recent congressional interest has focused on
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The place of nature in economic development
Official development economics reflects the rest of the discipline, in that it too neglects nature's place in economic development. The neglect looks odd to ecologists, who are trained to study the slow processes that influence long-term development possibilities. A seemingly natural retort to ecologists is that people come first and that, after all, current poverty should matter most.
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The development and regulation of Bt Brinjal in India
This comprehensive review of all aspects of cultivation of brinjal in India summarises the development and regulatory status in India of biotech Bt brinjal hybrids. Bt brinjal was approved in India for experimental seed production in 2008-2009 and is under consideration for commercial release.
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Sustainable community management of urban water and sanitation schemes: a training manual
The aim of this capacity building programme is to improve the efficiency and positive impact of urban, community-managed water and sanitation schemes.
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WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 2008
This latest WMO statement contains information for 2008 on global temperature, regional temperature anomalies, global precipitation, droughts, flooding and storms, La Ni
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Nuclear power: a dangerous waste of time
This briefing outlines why nuclear power is a woefully inadequate response to the climate crisis and how, in contrast, renewable energy and greater energy efficiency can deliver in time to tackle climate change, without any of the dangers posed by nuclear power.