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- This report explains the state of sustainable buildings and the construction industry in India including best practices, successes, barriers and recommendations for further implementation towards mitigation of climate change impacts. This report was published by UNEP in 2010.
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- Priyanka Kochhar
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- United Nations Environment Programme
- http://www.unep.org/pdf/SBCI_State_of_play_India.pdf
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- This report seeks to provide provincial agencies and groups in China, and those that support them, with some outside perspectives and ideas on further development of provincial-level energy conservation programmes. The report focuses on energy conservation programmes in the industrial sector and covers: an overview of China's 2006-2010 energy conservation programme; current activities; and issues and challenges for the next five years. This document, report no.56416, was published by The World Bank in June 2010.
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- Robert P Taylor; Gailius J Draugelis; Yabei Zhang; Alberto U Ang Co
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2894
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- This study explores the theory and practice of the adaptive management method of water resource management based on a detailed field study of the development and use of water resources for irrigation in the Lower Bhavani Project in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This study was published by IWMI in 2009.
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- Mats Lannerstad; David Molden
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3910/2009.128
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- This report reviews water scarcity in China, assesses policy and institutional requirements for addressing it, and recommends key areas for strengthening and reform. It brings together the main findings and recommendations from over 30 technical reports, case studies, and background papers prepared for the World Banks Analytical and Advisory Assistance (AAA) programme entitled Addressing Chinas Water Scarcity: From Analysis to Action. The document, report no.47111, was published by The World Bank in 2009.
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- Jian Xie; Andres Liebenthal; Jeremy J Warford; John A Dixon; Manchuan Wang; Shiji Gao; Shuilin Wang; Yong Jiang; Zhong Ma
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2585
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- This case study presents a forest rehabilitation initiative in the tropical dry forests in north-western India, highlights an indirect approach for assessing forest degradation, identification of forest rehabilitation objectives and targets and illustrates lessons learned for future forest rehabilitation in dry land forests. This study was published by FAO in 2009.
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- Michael Kleine; Ghazala Shahabuddin; Promode Kant
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/k7176e/k7176e00.pdf
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- This report evaluates the current use of microirrigation technologies in Maharashtra and Gujarat in India as a method of saving water in irrigated agriculture and averting potential water shortage crises, a strategy to increase farm incomes and reduce poverty and a method of enhancing the food and nutritional security of rural households through an increase in the area of cultivation, better crop yields, enhanced output quality, early crop maturity and reduced cultivation costs. This report was published by IWMI in 2005.
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- R. E. Namara; B. Upadhyay; R. K. Nagar
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3910/2009.094
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- This report examines the current status of advanced (non-crop, second generation) biofuel production technologies, those that can be grown using a small portion of the world's land area and those grown on arable lands without affecting food supply, and considers the key technical barriers of low conversion efficiency from biomass to fuel, limits on supply of key enzymes used in conversion, large energy requirement for operation and dependence on commercially unproven technology. This report was published by The World Bank in 2010.
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- Jay J. Cheng; Govinda R. Timilsina
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3896
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- This report evaluates the acute water shortages and pollution problems in North China, specifically in the Yellow (Huang), Hai and Huai (3-H) river basins, and recommends a number of improvements to China's water management practices to better support agriculture, the urban and industrial water supply and ecological resources in this area. It examines changes in the economy and society affecting the water sector, the current water resource situation in the 3-H basins and feasible options for balancing water supply and demand. It includes action plans for each of the key areas including flood control, agriculture, pollution control, wastewater reuse and groundwater management. This report was published by The World Bank in 2002.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15418
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- This report assesses the environmental impacts of the overuse of land and water resources in Hai Duong, Ha Tay and Son La provinces of Vietnam and analyzes the agricultural environmental institutions in North Vietnam to provide information about government institutions responsible for improving these conditions. This report was published by FAO in 2004.
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- Vu Trong Binh et al.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/af334e/af334e00.htm
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- This report proposes a number of CO2 abatement cost curves and scenarios to set low-carbon targets and identify cost-effective, low-carbon investments to inform Shanghai municipal and Changning District governments in their commitment to transition to a low-carbon city. This includes a survey of buildings in the Hongqiao area to diagnose current energy use patterns, development of carbon abatement cost curves, prioritization of mitigation measures and development of three alternative abatement scenarios. This report was published by The World Bank in 2013.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16710
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- This study uses remote sensing, national crop productivity and land use statistics and weather data to analyse the water productivity of rice and wheat in the Indus and Ganges river basins in South Asia. It demonstrates that there is scope for improvement in water and land productivity in the middle to lower areas of the Ganges Basin where water is abundant but the high consumption is not being converted into high crop yields. This report was published by IWMI in 2010.
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- X. Cai; B. R. Sharma; M. A. Matin; D. Sharma; S. Gunasinghe
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5337/2010.232
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- This report assesses water depletion from the extensive water use of agricultural production in the Moga District of the State of Punjab in India, focusing particularly on the growth in agricultural production and stress on water resources induced by groundwater irrigation. This report was published by IWMI in 2010.
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- Upali A. Amarasinghe; Vladimir Smakhtin; Bharat R. Sharma; Nishadi. Eriyagama
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5337/2010.229
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- A combination of population and economic growth is potentially putting stress on water resources in Bangladesh. This report identifies priorities for World Bank activity to help improve country-level water management. These include: the institutional framework; management and regulation; infrastructure; and water management. This document is Report No. 32312-BD from The World Bank Environment and Social Development Unit, Agriculture and Rural Development Unit, and Energy and Infrastructure Unit, South Asia Region, and was published in December 2005.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/8402
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- This study analyses the implementation of the Bioenergy and Food Security (BEFS) project in Thailand, a project which assesses how bioenergy developments can be implemented without hindering food security. This document contains the main findings and recommendations for policy-makers. The methodologies and data are included in a separate document: Bioenergy and food security: the BEFS analysis for Thailand.
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- Beau Damen
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1745e/i1745e00.htm
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- This brief report outlines how biodiversity degradation leads to changes in ecosystems which impacts the key components of human health and well-being including provision of food and medicines and disease patterns and suggests ways that biodiversity can be managed to mitigate the impacts. This report was published in 2010.
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- Camille Parmesan; Suzanne Skevington
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001897/189744e.pdf
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- This study analyses the implementation of the Bioenergy and Food Security (BEFS) project in Thailand, a project which assesses how bioenergy developments can be implemented without hindering food security. This document contains the methodologies and data. The main findings and recommendations for policy-makers are included in a separate document: BEFS Thailand: key results and policy recommendations for future bioenergy development.
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- Mirella Salvatore; Beau Damen
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1739e/i1739e00.htm
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- This brief report evaluates the positive and negative environmental effects of biofuel production as a method of improving energy security, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and contributing to rural development. It examines global trends in biofuels, biofuels in relation to the environment, methods of improving biofuel systems and the future for biofuels. This report was published in 2009.
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- R. W. Howarth; S. Bringezu
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001831/183113e.pdf
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- Under-capitalisation of Electric Cooperatives (ECs) in the Philippines was identified as contributing to their poor performance and to unstable rural energy supplies. Action taken to improve capital expenditure planning and investment was tested in six pilot institutions. This document presents five lessons learnt from the project which may help to facilitate capacity-building projects in other areas. It is one of a series of IFC SmartLessons from the International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, a programme to share lessons learned in development-oriented advisory services and investment operations. It was published in November 2009.
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- Art Cariaga; Jed A Sevilla; Marianna Fernandopacua; William Trant Beloe
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/10518
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- This study analyses the carbon and water footprint concepts which measure greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming and the consumption and contamination of freshwater resources respectively. It studies the origins of the carbon and water concepts, compares the two concepts and the responses to carbon and water footprints (including increasing carbon and water efficiency, changing production and consumption patterns and offsetting, neutrality and trading) with a summary of lessons learned to inform future practice. This study was published by UNESCO in 2012.
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- A. Ertug Ercin; Arjen Y. Hoekstra
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=217181&set=53C528D9_3_54&gp=1&lin=1&ll=1
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- This report assesses India's changing food consumption patterns (triggered by increasing income and urbanization) and their implications on future food and water demand, predicting that if water productivity can be increased then the need for additional consumptive water use can be eliminated. This report was published by IWMI in 2007.
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- Upali A. Amarasinghe; Tushaar Shah; Om Prakash Singh
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3910/2009.119
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- This report presents data on the forest sector in China and discusses reforms to forest tenure in collective forest areas. The situation in state forests is also considered. The current and potential future World Bank role in China's forestry sector is examined. This document, report no.63131, was published by The World Bank in May 2010.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2993
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- This report is part of the East Asia and Pacific Clean Stove Initiative Series of papers, a result of a collaboration between the World Bank and the Chinese government. The report describes the steps taken by the Chinese government to improve household cooking and heating conditions. This report provides a literature review of current knowledge on the subject and proposes a way forward for achieving universal access to clean cooking and heating solutions. This report was published by The World Bank in 2013.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16662
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- This document was prepared to help identify means for addressing fuel supply problems faced by biomass projects. It was prepared primarily for the situation in China but also has applications in other developing countries where fuel supply problems have the potential to delay or derail biomass projects. It covers the issues to consider when planning and preparing an investment in a biomass power plant. Topics covered include: biomass as a source of energy; a biomass resource assessment; biomass supply from straw; biomass supply from forestry residues; and, managing the biomass fuel supply. Experience from Scandinavian countries in large-scale energy production from forestry residues is also included. This document, no.56433, was published by The World Bank in May 2010.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2897
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- This report discusses the water resources management situation in China, where lack of water resources is having a detrimental effect on the economic and social development of the country. It describes China's water resource management challenges and goes on to discuss the activities that the World Bank is supporting to improve the situation. This report was published by the World Bank in 2002.
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- The World Bank Group
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15526
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- International experience in offshore wind power development was examined in order to develop implementation guidance for large-scale onshore, intertidal, and offshore wind farm development in China. The study covered five countries with significant experience of wind power - Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom - and considered the past, present, and planned future regulatory regimes in each country. This is the first of two publications arising from the study; the second, entitled 'Strategic guidance' is also catalogued in the e-library. This document, no.54745, was published by The World Bank in 2010.
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2860
