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Author | : Lelia Croitoru |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2010-07-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0821383965 |
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How much is a cleaner environment worth? For policy makers, that question used to go largely unanswered. Many economic activities cause environmental degradation, entailing real costs to the economy and to people's welfare. Knowing the extent of these costs is crucial for identifying a country's main environmental priorities and allocating appropriate funds for environmental protection. Over the past decade, the World Bank has initiated a systematic effort to measure the costs of environmental degradation in the Middle East and North Africa, shedding new light on their magnitude and on the need for policy changes. In many cases, these costs were found to be surprisingly large. 'The Cost of Environmental Degradation: Case Studies from the Middle East and North Africa' brings together the best case studies of this program and summarizes their policy impacts at the national and regional levels. The case studies quantify monetarily the annual damage due to environmental degradation and express these estimates as percentages of the countries' gross domestic product. The studies use the most recent environmental valuation methods to estimate the economic costs resulting from air pollution, water degradation, deforestation, and land degradation. Uniquely, the book dedicates a case study to value the costs of environmental degradation resulting from an oil spill and demolition waste in times of conflict. The studies then illuminate the concrete implications on policy, investments, and institutions for the respective nations. This book will be of interest to policy makers, nongovernmental organizations, and academic and research institutions.
Author | : Lelia Croitoru |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780821383186 |
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Author | : Katharine Bolt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Environmental degradation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Todor Panaĭotov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Environmental degradation |
ISBN | : |
Download The Economics of Environmental Degradation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ephraim Nkonya |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 695 |
Release | : 2015-11-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3319191683 |
Download Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation due to land use and cover change (LUCC) and lower cropland and rangeland productivity is estimated to be about 300 billion USD. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for the largest share (22%) of the total global cost of land degradation. Only about 38% of the cost of land degradation due to LUCC - which accounts for 78% of the US$300 billion loss – is borne by land users and the remaining share (62%) is borne by consumers of ecosystem services off the farm. The results in this volume indicate that reversing land degradation trends makes both economic sense, and has multiple social and environmental benefits. On average, one US dollar investment into restoration of degraded land returns five US dollars. The findings of the country case studies call for increased investments into the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands, including through such institutional and policy measures as strengthening community participation for sustainable land management, enhancing government effectiveness and rule of law, improving access to markets and rural services, and securing land tenure. The assessment in this volume has been conducted at a time when there is an elevated interest in private land investments and when global efforts to achieve sustainable development objectives have intensified. In this regard, the results of this volume can contribute significantly to the ongoing policy debate and efforts to design strategies for achieving sustainable development goals and related efforts to address land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Author | : Maria Sarraf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Environmental degradation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2006-01-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 926401005X |
Download Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment Recent Developments Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An in-depth assessment of the most recent conceptual and methodological developments in cost-benefit analysis and the environment.
Author | : Katherine Bolt (Giovanni Ruta, Maria Sarraf) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2005 |
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Author | : Johnny Ch Lok |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2018-11-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781790519088 |
Download Environmental Pollution Raises Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why countries need to pollute environment to develop economy, such a need for industrialization related environmental degradation in the course of economic development. A country needs and chooses to achieve industry production it can raise technological advancement and adopt technologies, which are substantially less polluting than the technologies used by countries which industry in the past. The environmental development trade off might have existed historically. But it is not bad to developing countries to scarce environment quality for industry development. Nowadays, different countries' governments need to concern how to reduce environmental pollution and to raise economic growth at the same time. In fact, human are facing these challenges, such as energy crisis is from 1970 year is precipitated by oil price jumps, market failure in allocation of environmental resources. At the same time, human are also facing economic development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet our own needs. Due to natural resource is limited to be supplied in the future, industry needs manufactured, human and natural is left undiminished, so this needs restricting consumption to save natural resources for asset creation and conservation and protection of the natural environment. Efforts and indicators for monitoring sustainability indicates the environmentally adjusted national income or Green Domestic Product (GNP)=NDP less depletion of natural capital-environmental damage and green national accounts indicates degradation of environmental capital is like depreciation of man -made capital. Hence, it implies environmental pollution is a damage cost to any countries. Hence, if the country can reduce or avoid the environmental pollution, then its environmental damage cost will not influence its GDP (Green Domestic Product) income amount indicator to be reduced for the country's national income in the year. Then, it's economic growth will be better in the year. Due to GDP is the country whole year income financial performance indicator. It will concern the country's economic growth level in the year.Environmental pollution is an important issue in the process of economic growth. Instance, China has obtained remarkable economic growth with an average annual growth rate of 9.6% in gross domestic product (GDP) from 1979 year to 2004 year. Despite the impressive economic performance, the environment qualities have become worse during the past two decades. China government began to concern about to following these questions: will the high economic growth be able to sustain within environmental constraints or without exceeding ecological system? What is the effect of economic growth on environment quality? Are there any tradeoff between attaining high economic growth and protecting environment? And will the environment conditions become improved automatically at higher income level? What should the government do to the environmental degradation? When environmental sustainability, due to the increasing scarcity or overuse of renewable natural resources, arisen non renewable commodities, such as fossil fuels or industrial metals which cause problems, such as water and air pollution, atmosphere or the ozone layer. Thus these bad happening(result) have cause-effect relationship between pollution and public health.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2008-09-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264045821 |
Download Costs of Inaction on Key Environmental Challenges Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This report provides introductory perspectives on the costs of inaction on key environmental challenges and discusses some of the future problems likely to be encountered in this very complex area.