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- This report (in 21 parts) presents a set of objectives, goals, methodologies and a checklist for assessment and communication of environmental risks potentially associated with coastal aquaculture. Six case studies illustrate the use of environmental risk assessment methodologies in coastal aquaculture discussing benthic community changes, shellfish farming, interbreeding of wild and escaped farm cod, fish farming waste, soil salinisation due to low-salinity shrimp farming and coastal aquaculture's potential effects on algal blooms.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/i0035e/i0035e00.htm
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- This report (in 21 parts) presents a set of objectives, goals, methodologies and a checklist for assessment and communication of environmental risks potentially associated with coastal aquaculture. Six case studies illustrate the use of environmental risk assessment methodologies in coastal aquaculture discussing benthic community changes, shellfish farming, interbreeding of wild and escaped farm cod, fish farming waste, soil salinisation due to low-salinity shrimp farming and coastal aquaculture's potential effects on algal blooms.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/i0035e/i0035e00.htm
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- This report (in 21 parts) presents a set of objectives, goals, methodologies and a checklist for assessment and communication of environmental risks potentially associated with coastal aquaculture. Six case studies illustrate the use of environmental risk assessment methodologies in coastal aquaculture discussing benthic community changes, shellfish farming, interbreeding of wild and escaped farm cod, fish farming waste, soil salinisation due to low-salinity shrimp farming and coastal aquaculture's potential effects on algal blooms.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/i0035e/i0035e00.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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- 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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- This discussion paper presents a review of the policies, regulations, and standards for brownfield site management in the USA, Canada, EU, several EU member countries (UK, the Netherlands, and Germany), Japan, and other countries or regions, with the aim of helping China to develop its own approach to brownfield remediation and redevelopment. The document, no. 57890, was published by The World Bank in September 2010.
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- Yuyang Gong
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2927
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- This brief report examines the cumulative effects of multiple human activities on the ecosystems of semi-enclosed marine systems (SEMS) (including coastal seas, bays and gulfs). It identifies the major threats to SEMS, the consequences of human activities on SEMS, how these consequences in turn affect human well-being as well as recommendations for management of these areas. This report was published in 2008.
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- Heike K. Lotze; Michael Flitner; Edward R. Urban Jr.
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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/0016/001632/163268e.pdf
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- This report assesses the viability of manufacturing straw-based densified total mixed ration blocks (DTMRBs) as a method of improving management of crop residues. It discusses this type of feed compared to conventional feeding in India, development of the technology, machinery needed and the process involved, securing biomass from the fields, brief account of the research in India on DTMRBs, advantages of this technology, economic and other benefits to the farmer, extent of use of the technology and densified straw based feed pellets.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/3/a-i2728e/index.html
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- This article discusses the need for a sustainable, nutritious fish feed and attempts to summarise the effects of phytase on nutrient utilization, growth of fish and aquatic pollution. This article was originally published in Naga, the quarterly magazine of The WorldFish Center, in 2004.
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- K. Baruah; N. P. Sahu; A. K. Pal; D. Debnath
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Naga/na_2314.pdf
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- This report discusses the economic impact of water pollution in the Upper Citarum River in Indonesia and then goes on to describe the development of a methodology for valuing this impact. It makes a number of recommendations for interventions that could be implemented in order to improve water quality, which it argues that, as well as being better for public health, would also have a number of economic benefits. It provides a breakdown of the potential cost of these interventions and compares this against projected economic benefits. This report was published by the World Bank in 2013.
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- Asian Development Bank
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/17750
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- This report examines 53 cities in developing countries (including Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, China and Indonesia) to determine the factors that drive the use of untreated wastewater and polluted water for irrigated agriculture. This report was published by IWMI in 2008.
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- Liqa Raschid-Sally; Priyantha Jayakody
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3910/2009.127
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- This guide explains the basics of how to start a computer recycling business using environmentally sustainable methods. It discusses important issues to be considered in recycling including international regulations, social and environmental challenges and economic opportunities as well as the practical aspects of building the project such as legal structures, human resources management, facilities and utilities, cost analysis, supply management, commercial strategy, inventory management and traceability and human and environmental risk assessment. It also discusses the practical operation of this type of business including collection, refurbishment and dismantling. This guide was published in 2008.
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- Benoit Varin; Pierre-Etienne Roinat
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- Tic Ethic, UNESCO, ADEME
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001791/179165e.pdf
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- This report assesses the impact of the Chinese environmental performance rating and disclosure program, Green Watch, as an alternative or complementary approach to conventional pollution regulation by examining pollution emissions data from rated and unrated firms before and after implementation of the program. This report was published by The World Bank in 2010.
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- Yanhong Jin; Hua Wang; David Wheeler
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3904
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- This study was carried out as part of the effort to reduce oil inputs into the marine environment from ships and other sea-based activities. It discusses the approaches to making estimates of oil inputs to attempt to improve these estimates and examines the sources of oil inputs including oil inputs from ships, exploration and production in the offshore and other inputs of oil into the sea. It was published in 2007.
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- GESAMP (IMO/FAO/UNESCO-IOC/UNIDO/WMO/IAEA/UN/UNEP Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection)
- http://www.gesamp.org/publications/publicationdisplaypages/rs75
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- This report provides an overview of the range of actions, policies and institutions around the globe that address nutrient pollution and eutrophication.
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- Mindy Selman; Suzie Greenhalgh
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/eutrophication-0
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- This report provides a snapshot of the sources of nutrient pollution and the corresponding socioeconomic drivers that are increasing nutrient levels in our waterways.
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- Mindy Selman; Suzie Greenhalgh
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/eutrophication-sources-and-drivers-nutrient-pollution
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- This report provides an overview of the Indian national policies that are likely to reduced greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in India and identifies priorities for effective policy implementation including improved coordination among different levels of government, institutional capacity building and sufficient financing.
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- Neha Pahuja; Nimisha Pandey (Teri); Koyel Mandal; Chayan Bandyopadhyay (IFMR)
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/sites/default/files/wri_workingpaper_india_final.pdf
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- This study highlights the food losses that are occurring along the entire food chain, assesses the extent of these losses and identifies causes and possible ways of preventing these losses.
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- Jenny Gustavsson; Christel Cederberg; Ulf Sonesson; Robert van Otterdijk; Alexandre Meybeck
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/3/a-i2697e/index.html
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- This report explores the scope of the world's challenge over the next four decades of producing enough food in a manner that advances economic development and reduces pressure on the environment. It also suggests possible solutions to this challenge.
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- Tim Searchinger; Craig Hanson; Janet Ranganathan; Brian Lipinski; Richard Waite; Robert Winterbottom; Ayesha Dinshaw; Ralph Heimlich
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/great-balancing-act
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- This study examines the usage of water-related data as a method of improving water allocation systems to balance the social, economic and environmental benefits of water resources. It highlights the key issues for which water data is necessary (water for food production, growing urban populations, wastewater collection and treatment, water footprint of major businesses, vulnerability of populations to extreme events and the impact of water abstraction and pollution on natural environments and ecosystems), summarises water data definitions and sources, examines constraints on better water monitoring and reporting and looks at international initiatives for valuing the environment in national accounting. This study was published by UNESCO in 2012.
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- James Winpenny
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/water/wwap/publications/side-publications/green-accounting-and-data-improvement-for-water-resources/
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- In the context of waste management, this report examines sustainable development, waste streams and their management, governance and future challenges, considerations in developing a national waste management strategy and guidance on developing, implementing, reviewing and updating a national waste management strategy. This report was published by UNEP in 2013.
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- Mark Hyman
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- United Nations Environment Programme
- http://www.unep.org/ietc/OurWork/WasteManagement/NationalWasteManagementStrategies/tabid/104470/Default.aspx
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- This report studies the availability, use and potential of economic tools and strategies (such as taxes, charges, fees, fines, penalties, liability and compensation schemes, subsidies and incentives) that encourage a change in behaviour that will address the problems with marine litter, solid waste and debris polluting ports, bays and coastal waters.
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- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- http://www.unep.org/regionalseas/marinelitter/publications/docs/Economic_Instruments_and_Marine_Litter.pdf
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- This report provides a number of guidelines on controlling water pollution caused by agriculture in China. It describes the many ways that water quality is affected by agricultural activities, including: soil erosion; pollution from fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation and drainage, livestock and crop waste, freshwater aquaculture, villages and towns and recycled wastewater. It goes on to describe methods of measuring water quality and then discusses regulatory frameworks that are in use around the world to control agricultural water pollution. It then makes a number of recommendations for improving the situation in China. This report was published by the FAO in 2013.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/019/i3536e/i3536e.pdf
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- This brief report examines the human contribution to the global nitrogen cycle through agriculture and fossil fuel use and the consequences of these changes to the nitrogen cycle, to the environment and to human health. It also recommends ways to manage the negative effects of the changes. This report was published in 2007.
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- J. Galloway; J. Erisman; A. Townsend; E. Davidson; M. Bekunda; Z. Cai; J. Freney; L. Martinelli; S. Seitzinger; M. Sutton
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001509/150916e.pdf
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- This report provides a brief overview of the main types of household energy currently used by people living in rural areas in Cambodia (kerosene, wood, charcoal) and highlights some of the more efficient forms of energy that are available (efficient cook stoves, biodigesters, ceramic water filters and LED lanterns). Adoption of these forms of energy could provide sustainable solutions to cut fuel consumption, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and saving the householder money, and improve sanitation and the safety of drinking water. This report was published by The World Bank in 2009.
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- Michael Wild
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12917
