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Integrated lake and reservoir management: World Bank approach and exprience
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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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Restoring and protecting the World's lakes and reservoirs
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Dinar, Ariel
Human activities are threatening the sustainable use of lakes and reservoirs around the globe. These sources of water are critical components in the ecological system. They provide habitat, sanctuary, and food for many species of fish and wildlife and are also a source of many beneficial uses for humankind [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 85p., bibliogr., maps
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From farmers to fishers. Developing reservoir aquaculture for people displaced by dams
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Costa-Pierce, Barry
Hydropower and irrigation projects involving reservoirs can displace thousands of people from their traditional lands and deprive them of their livelihoods. Solutions that are technically feasible, sustainable, environmentally appropriate, and acceptable to the people who are resettled demand a view of reservoirs as ecological resources than as mer [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 56p., Ref.
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Reservoir and Culture based fisheries: biology and management
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Silva, Sena S.(De)
Reservoirs are a major, and for several Asian countries an expanding, water resource which is very diverse both in terms of size and fisheries potential. They range from small water bodies with productive culture-based fisheries to expansive reservoirs with variable and often low fish production. The strategies required to achieve disirable product [...]
ACIAR; 2001 - 384p., ref.
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The domestic benefits of tropical forests: A critical review emphasizing hydrological functions
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Chomitz, Kenneth M.
The authors critically review the literature on the net domestic (within-country) economic benefits of protecting tropical forests, focusing on hydrological benefits and the production of nontimber forest products. (The review does not consider other important classes of benefits, including global benefits of all kinds, ecological benefits which do [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 41p.
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Better-Practice approaches for Culture-based Fisheries development in Asia
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De Silva, Sena S.
Culture based fisheries are an effective way of increasing supplies of fish in rural areas. Farmers with relatively little experience in fish culture can productively engage, manage and benefit from culture based fisheries around lakes and reservoirs. This manual will provide guidance to development workers and program planners for integrating comm [...]
ACIAR; 2006 - 96p; Ref.;
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Freshwater Biodiversity in Asia with the special Reference to Fish
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Kottelat, Maurice
The purpose of this report is to give attention to Asian freshwater biodiversity. Asia is home to some 3500 species of fishes, hundreds of other organisms which spend their entire lives in water, and to many types of freshwater habitats. Many of these are of considerable economic values and are an important source of food for many poor people [...]
World Bank; - 59p.
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Some Hydrologic Characteristics of Tropical Soils In Relation To Irrigation
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Rattan Lai
University of Ibadan; 1972 - 38p.
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Comprehensive river basin development: the Tennessee Valley Authority
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MILLER, Barbara A.
This technical paper presents a broad overview of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), recognized worldly as the model for river basin development and management. The objective of the study - while presenting its history, conception and development, institutions and programs - is to summarize those aspects of TVA, particularly those related to wat [...]
World Bank; 1998 - 86p.
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Setting priorities for environmental management: an application to the mining sector in Bolivia
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Ayres, Wendy S.
Mining and industrial activities, if poorly managed, can damage the environment and leave behind contaminated materials which release pollutants for many years after the mines or enterprises have been shut down. Cleaning old mine and industrial sites is often extremely costly. Furthermore, cleaning up the sites may not result in appreciable improve [...]
World Bank; 1998 - 108p., Bibliogr.
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Welfare Measurment Bias in Household and On-site Surveying of Water-Based Recreation: An Application of Lake Sevan, Armenia
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Meisner, Craig
Studies comparing household surveys with on-site interceptor surveys have typically accounted for over-sampling avid users in the on-site interceptor surveys (that is, endogenous stratification). However, these studies have typically not accounted for the possibility that the household sample may contain a large presence of zero observations. If a [...]
The World Bank; 2006 - 22p; Ref.
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Water pollution in Latin America: an economic analysis
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QUIROZ, J.A.
ICEG; 1996 - 17p.
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Institutional and Policy Analysis of River Basin Management : The Guadal Quivir River Basin, Spain
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Blomquist, William
The authors describe and analyze river basin management in the Guadalquivir River Basin in Spain. The Guadalquivir river flows westerly across southern Spain, with nearly all of its 57,017 km2 drainage area within the region of Andalusia. Water management issues in this semi-arid, heavily agricultural, but rapidly urbanizing region include drought [...]
The World Bank; 2005 - 40p; Ref.
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Environment as cultural heritage: the Armenian diaspora's willingness-to-pay to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan
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Laplante, Benoit
This paper presents a study of willingness-to-pay of the Armenian Diaspora in the United States to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan, a unique and precious symbol of the Armenian cultural heritage. Dichotomous choice contingent valuation questions were asked by mail surveys to elicit respondents' willingness to pay for the protection of Lake Sevan. The [...]
World Bank; 2005 - 34p; Ref.
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Measuring Economic Benefits for water Investments and Policies
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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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Women and the environment: an analytical review of success stories
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OFOSU-AMAAH, Waafas/PHILLEO, Wendy
UNEP; 1992 - 155p.
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Of saviours and punks: the political economy of the Nile perch marketing chain in Tanzania
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Gibbon, Peter
The paper is a fieldwork-based case study of the commodity chain for the Nile Perch fish from Lake Victoria, Tanzania. This fish first began apperaring in significant numbers in the lake in the early 1980s and within a few years a large artisanal fishery developed around it. Commodity chain analysis focuses on how a commodity is produced, marketed, [...]
CDR; 1997 - 114p., Ref.
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Irrigation principles and practices; 3rd Ed.
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Israelsen W. Orson and Hansen E. Vaughn
John Wiley and Sons; 1962 - 447p.
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Water allocation and water markets: an analysis of gains from trade in Chile
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Hearne, Robert R.
This paper is intended to reinforce the World Bank's overall effort to improve the management of natural resources and to highlight the importance of water resources in particular. The paper focuses on water allocation problems and the performance of water markets in improving allocation. By examining specific case studies in Chile, one of the few [...]
The World Bank; 1995 - 75p.
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Protection and sustainable use of water
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United Nations; 1995 - 48p.
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