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Languages : es
Pages : 47
Book Description
Indicadores básicos diarios 2002
Author: Governing Mandatory Health Insurance
Author: William D. SavedoffPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821375490
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
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Water in a Changing World
Author: World Water Assessment Programme (United Nations)Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231040952
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
"The United Nations World Water Development Report", published every three years, is a comprehensive review providing an authoritative picture of the state of the world's freshwater resources. It offers best practices as well as in-depth theoretical analyses to help stimulate ideas and actions for better stewardship in the water sector. It is the only report of its kind, resulting from the collaboration and contributions of the 26 UN agencies, commissions, program, funds, secretariats and conventions that have a significant role in addressing global water concerns.
Democracy Adrift
Author: David R. DyePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
World Development Report 2008
Author: World BankPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821368095
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The world's demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain agriculture will become increasingly scarce, degraded, and vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In many poor countries, agriculture accounts for at least 40 percent of GDP and 80 percent of employment. At the same time, about 70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. 'World Development Report 2008' seeks to assess where, when, and how agriculture can be an effective instrument for economic development, especially development that favors the poor. It examines several broad questions: How has agriculture changed in developing countries in the past 20 years? What are the important new challenges and opportunities for agriculture? Which new sources of agricultural growth can be captured cost effectively in particular in poor countries with large agricultural sectors as in Africa? How can agricultural growth be made more effective for poverty reduction? How can governments facilitate the transition of large populations out of agriculture, without simply transferring the burden of rural poverty to urban areas? How can the natural resource endowment for agriculture be protected? How can agriculture's negative environmental effects be contained? This year's report marks the 30th year the World Bank has been publishing the 'World Development Report'.
Facing the Challenges
Author: UnescoInnovation and Inequality
Author: Susan CozzensPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1781951675
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Susan Cozzens, Dhanaraj Thakur, and the other co-authors ask how the benefits and costs of emerging technologies are distributed amongst different countries _ some rich and some poor. Examining the case studies of five technologies across eight countri
The Demography of Adaptation to Climate Change
Author: George MartinePublisher: UN
ISBN: 9780897140010
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A flurry of extreme weather events, together with projections that grow more somber with every new scientific advance, have dramatically highlighted the need to respond more effectively to the threats already upon humankind. In the midst of a rapidly expanding global adaptation agenda, it is of primary importance to get adaptation and its constituent parts right, in order to generate the most appropriate and effective interventions. Adapting to episodes after they occur is no longer sufficient; we increasingly need to anticipate and reduce the suffering and the enormously damaging impacts of potential coming events. This book addresses a major gap in adaptation efforts to date by pointing to the vital role that an understanding of population dynamics and an extensive use of demographic data have in developing pre-emptive and effective adaptation policies and practices. Politics and an oversimplified understanding of demographic dynamics have long kept population issues out of serious discussions in the framework of climate negotiations. Within adaptation actions, however, this is beginning to change, and this volume is intended to provide a framework for taking that change forward, towards better, more evidence-based adaptation. It provides key concepts linking demography and adaptation, data foundations and techniques for analyzing climate vulnerability, as well as case studies where these concepts and analyses illuminate who is vulnerable and how to help build their resilience.
The United Nations World Water Development Report
Author: World Water Assessment Programme (United Nations)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Building Cities
Author: Eduardo RojasPublisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN: 9781597821087
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This volume provides a synthesis of the lessons learned and challenges confronted in implementing neighbourhood improvement programs in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. It provides a wide panorama of the most complex problems that the cities of the LAC region currently face and shows possibilities for solutions.