This results profile talks about the
modernization of real estate cadastre and property
registration system in the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia. One of the...
This results profile talks about the
modernization of real estate cadastre and property
registration system in the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia. One of the...
This results profile talks about the
modernization of real estate cadastre and property
registration system in the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia. One of the...
This Results Profile talks about new
irrigation systems that jumpstarted farming, and incomes in
Afghanistan. Most of the country’s basic irrigation
infrastructure was...
This Results Profile talks about Natural
Resources and Environmental Governance (NREG) Program in
Ghana. The challenges of the program were to improve
transparency in...
This Results Profile focuses on the
assessment of climate change vulnerability, risk and
adaptation in Albania. Albania’s water resources are a
national asset. The River...
This Results Profile talks about
improving land tenure security and registration of property
rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Systems for the
registration of property...
Papua New Guinea is a relatively young
country, having gained independence in 1975. Since then
minerals, particularly gold and copper, have been the
backbone of the...
Type: BriefReport#: 93400Date: September 6, 2010Author:
Hancock, Graeme
Samoa's population of 182,000 is
concentrated on two main islands - Savai'i and Upolu -
with 53 percent of people living in small, coastal villages.
Their standard of...
Type: BriefReport#: 93396Date: September 6, 2010Author:
Papathanasiou,Demetrios
About 120 million people are directly
dependent on commercial capture fisheries for their
livelihoods. Ninety-seven percent (116 million) of the
'fish people' live in...
The objective of this technical report
is to provide the background to the methodology used to
model the impact of climate change on runoff for the global
track of the...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 56801Date: September 1, 2010Author:
Strzepek, Kenneth M. ;
Mccluskey, Alyssa L.
The main objective of this report is to
strengthen understanding of climate-related risks and
impacts in coastal megacities in developing countries using
case studies...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 57110Date: September 1, 2010Author:
Ahmed, Kazi ;
Philips,Bradford Ryan ;
Pillai,Poonam ;
Shyamsundar,Priya ;
Wang,Limin
A recently completed report on the
political economy of natural resource use: lessons for
fisheries reform consolidate existing knowledge on the
political economy of...
Wastewater use in agriculture is a
growing practice worldwide. Drivers include increasing water
stress, in part due to climate change; increasing
urbanization and growing...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5412Date: September 1, 2010Author:
Bartone,Carl Richard ;
Drechsel, Pay ;
Mara,Duncan ;
Scheierling,Susanne M.
An approach to estimating the costs of
adapting to climate change is presented along with results
for major components of infrastructure. The analysis
separates the...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 56660Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Hughes, Gordon ;
Chinowsky, Paul ;
Strzepek, Ken
This background paper describes the work
carried out on one component of a larger World Bank study
entitled The Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change
(EACC), whose...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 56664Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Ward, Philip J. ;
Pauw, Pieter ;
Brander, Luke M. ;
Aerts, Jeroen, C.J.H. ;
Strzepek, Kenneth M.
This report is the output of the World
Bank-financed study on Making Transport Climate Resilient
for Mozambique, which is a Sub-Saharan Africa initiative to
respond...
Type: Strategic Environmental Assessment/AnalysisReport#: 69392Date: August 1, 2010
This report is the output of the World
Bank-financed study on Making Trans-port Climate Resilient
for Ethiopia, which is a Sub-Saharan Africa initiative to
respond to...
Climate change will have large, but
still uncertain, effects on agriculture. In this report the
authors provide estimates of the impacts on human well-being
through...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 56662Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Nelson, Gerald C. ;
Rosegrant, Mark W. ;
Koo, Jawoo ;
Robertson, Richard ;
Sulser, Timothy ;
Zhu, Tingju ;
Ringler, Claudia ;
Palazzo, Amanda ;
Msangi, Siwa ;
Batka, Miroslav ;
Magalhaes, Marilia ;
Valmonte-Santos, Rowena ;
Ewing, Mandy ;
Lee, David
The present study of the economics of
adaptation to climate change follows the sector approach,
with separate estimates of adaptation measures for
infrastructure, water,...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 56665Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Lange, Glenn-Marie ;
Dasgupta, Susmita ;
Thomas, Timothy ;
Murray, Siobhan ;
Blankespoor, Brian ;
Sander, Klas ;
Essam, Timothy
You have clicked on a link to a page that is not part of the beta version of the new worldbank.org. Before you leave, we’d love to get your feedback on your experience while you were here. Will you take two minutes to complete a brief survey that will help us to improve our website?
Feedback Survey
Thank you for agreeing to provide feedback on the new version of worldbank.org; your response will help us to improve our website.
Thank you for participating in this survey! Your feedback is very helpful to us as we work to improve the site functionality on worldbank.org.