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Integrated lake and reservoir management: World Bank approach and exprience / Ayres, Wendy S
This paper describes the challenges of managing lakes and reservoirs and the Bank's support of these activities. Specifically, it addresses water pollution, water withdrawals, diversions and lake reclamation; disturbances in watersheds; inappropriate introduction of exotic species; and overfishing. To alleviate the pressure on these water bodies, t [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 29p., Bibliogr.
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Water resources in the Asia-Pacific Region: managing scarcity / Rosegrant, Mark W.
IFPRI; 1996 -
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Measuring Economic Benefits for water Investments and Policies / Young, Robert.A
This monograph reviews, assesses and describes the operational use of the concepts and methods for estimating economic benefits of investment and allocation decisions involving water. The main focus of the report is on valuation of changes in water supply although attention is also given to measuring benefits of increased reliability of water suppl [...]
World Bank; - 118p.
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Overcoming Agricultural Pollution of Water: The Challenge of Integrating Agricultural and Environmental Policies in the European Union / Scheierling, Susanne M.
Water problems are emerging as the most compelling set of issues facing agricultural production in the 1990s. Local and national governments as well as supranational organizations in every part of the world are responding to perceived health risks or economic damage with a variety of measures to manage water quality impacts. However, up to now, no [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 67p.
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Inspections and emissions in India: puzzling survey evidence about industrial pollution / Pargal, Sheoli
Industrial plants face pressure to abate water pollution from many sources, national and local, through formal government regulation and through more informal pressure from consumer groups and concern for the firm's reputation. Formal regulation tends to reflect the bargaining power of local communities and is not as uniform or blind as the law wou [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 21p., Tables
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Water allocation mechanisms : principles and examples / Dinar, Ariel
From the earliest times, water resources have been allocated on the basis of social criteria -maintaining the community by ensuring that water is available for human consumption, for sanitation, and for food production. Societies have invested capital in infrastructure to maintain this allocation. Yet social change, including changes in (and more u [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 41p., Ref.
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Using economic policy to improve environmental protection in Pakistan / Faruqee, Rashid
The author studies Pakistan's major environmental problems, both green and brown, and assesses the extent to which economic policies affect incentives to protect the environment. Experience in other countries shows that nondistortionary economic policies that promote economic growth by improving the allocation of resources also create appropriate i [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 23p., Bibliogr.
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Water pollution abatement by chinese industry : cost estimates and policy implications / Dasgupta, Susmita
Using factory-level data provided by China's National Environmental Protection Agency and the Tianjin Environmental Protection Bureau, the authors of this report estimate the costs of water pollution abatement for Chinese industry. Using their econometric results, they analyze the cost-effectiveness of current pollution control policy in China and [...]
World Bank; 1996 - 23p.
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Environmental regulation and development: A cross-country empirical analysis / Dasgupta, Susmita
The authors develop comparative indices of environmental policy and performance for 31 countries using a quantified analysis of reports prepared for the United Nations Conference on Environmental and Development. In cross-country regressions, they find a very strong, continuous association between their indicators and national income per capita, pa [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 27p.
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The industrial pollution projection system / Hettige, Hemamala
The industrial pollution projection system (English) Abstract The World Bank's technical assistance work with new environmental protection institutions stresses cost-effective regulation, with market-based pollution control instruments implemented wherever feasible. But few environmental protection institutions can do the benefit-cost analysis nee [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 77p.
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The cost of air pollution abatement / Hartman, Raymond S.
Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the authors have developed comprehensive estimates of pollution abatement costs by industry sector for several major air pollutants. Their results provide conservative benchmarks for benefit-cost analysis of pollution control strategies in developing countries [...]
World Bank; 1994 - 30p.
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Environmental taxes and policies for developing countries / Bruce, Neil
Increasing urbanization and industrialization can exacerbate pollution problems in developing countries. Tax revenues in developing countries are too low to support adequate infrastructure for treating and disposing of wastes, but the problem is also attributable to the classic problem of externalities in productiion and consumption. "Externalities [...]
World Bank; 1993 - 74p.
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Ground water quality protection a guide for water utilities municipal authorities and environment agencies / Foster, Stephen
This publication provides guidance to water-sector decision makers and planners on how to deal with the quality dimension of groundwater resources management in the World Bank's client countries. There is growing evidence of increasing pollution threats to groundwater and some well-documented cases of irreversible damage to important aquifers. This [...]
The World Bank; 2002 - 103p; Ref.
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