Groundwater comprises 97 percent of the
worlds readily accessible freshwater and provides the rural,
urban, industrial and irrigation water supply needs of 2
billion...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 71727Date: June 1, 2011Author:
Davis,Richard Mark ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Romani,Saleem ;
Sengupta, Buba ;
Tuinhof,Albert
The report is structured in two parts.
Part one focuses on describing why providing transmission
services for renewable energy represents a new challenge, as
well as...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 69199Date: June 1, 2011Author:
Madrigal, Marcelino ;
Stoft, Steven
Ningbo serves as the Chinese pilot city
for the World Bank Climate Resilient Cities (CRC) Program.
The CRC program aims to, prepare local governments in the
East Asia...
Type: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)Report#: 70205Date: June 1, 2011
This report discusses the review and
implementation plan for building thermal standards in
Lebanon. The assignment consisted of seven tasks: (1) to
review existing thermal...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70305Date: June 1, 2011
This study reports on in-depth case
studies of dzud (extreme cold weather during winter,
subsequent to a very dry summer) impacts and responses.
Focus groups, key informant...
Type: Other Agricultural StudyReport#: 70217Date: May 31, 2011Author:
Baival, Batkhishig ;
Batjav, Batbuyan ;
Fernandez-Gimenez,Maria E.
Housing development has direct and
indirect impacts on the environment. Through its design,
construction, and operation, housing represents a
significant point of direct...
Type: Other Urban StudyReport#: 70187Date: May 1, 2011
Modern, efficient, and transparent land
administration systems are important in reducing poverty,
and promoting growth and sustainable development. Security
of property...
This report contains the findings of the
Southern Sudan Preliminary Water Information Assessment
Study prepared for the Ministry of Water Resources and
Irrigation (MWRI)...
The paper focuses on financing and
institutional arrangements for dzud. It seeks to encourage a
more coordinated, predictable, timely and targeted approach
to dzud on...
Type: Other Agricultural StudyReport#: 69525Date: May 1, 2011
Urban sources of greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions in Brazilian cities are growing. At the national
level, the dominance of greenhouse gas emissions from
deforestation...
Type: Other Urban StudyReport#: 70186Date: May 1, 2011
Une réforme de la filière café est
actuellement en cours au Burundi. Bien qu’elle ait été
lancée par le gouvernement du Burundi en 1992, ce n’est
qu’en 2008 que sa mise...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 71823Date: May 1, 2011
This Results Profile talks about
building a better growth foundation in Mali. Mali is a vast
landlocked country located in the heart of the Sahel, a
region threatened...
This Results Profile talks about
rehabilitating roads to connect people to prosperity in Sri
Lanka. More than 50 percent of the national roads had very
poor surface...
This Results Profile talks about the
effective use of energy, increased energy self-reliance and
reduced environmental emissions in Belarus. Social
Infrastructure Retrofitting...
This Results Profile talks about the
enhanced public private partnership in delivery of water
services in Armenia. Over the past decade, the government of
Armenia had...
This Results Profile talks about
efficient heat and hot water services to the population of
Chernobyl affected areas of Belarus. Two-thirds of the
contamination from...
This Results Profile talks about
promoting safe and clean heating, and increasing renewable
energy generation in Armenia. Around 36 percent of residents
of multi-apartment...
This Results Profile talks about
restoring livelihoods in post-conflict communities of Sri
Lanka. The long-lasting armed conflict between the
government and the Liberation...
This Results Profile focuses on enhanced
public-private partnership in delivery of water services in
Armenia. For many years most of the water supply and
sanitation...
This Results Profile talks about
lighting up the rural communities in Bangladesh. Only about
40 percent of the rural households in Bangladesh had access
to grid electricity....
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