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    Weeding risk: financial impacts of climate change and water scarcity on Asia's food and beverage sector: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam

    Description
    This report identifies the potential financial impacts arising from climate change and water scarcity on publicly listed companies in the food and beverage sector in South and Southeast Asia. It focuses on domestic companies that process and package foods and non-alcoholic beverages in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. It examines the impacts on agricultural inputs, operating efficiency and reputation for aquaculture, beverages, confectionary, dairy/poultry, edible oils, starches and sugar.
    Author
    Dana Krechowicz; Shally Venugopal; Amanda Sauer; Sandeep Somani; Shipra Pandey
    Publisher
    World Resources Institute (WRI)
    http://www.wri.org/publication/weeding-risk
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    Wetlands management in Vietnam: issues and perspectives

    Description
    This document includes a collection of papers on wetlands management of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam which cover an overview of the pressures and responses; a legal basis and framework; agricultural development, environmental pollution and farmer differentiation; managing and classifying wetlands; institutional and policy issues; proposals for a national strategy on sustainable management; the national policy; special use forest management; situation analysis and training needs assessment; a wetlands study; and case study of Tram Chim national park.
    Author
    Magnus Torell; Albert M. Salamanca; Blake D. Ratner (editors)
    Publisher
    The WorldFish Center
    http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_354.pdf
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    What does it take? The role of incentives in forest plantation development in Asia and the Pacific, Part 1

    Description
    This report (in three parts) assesses the impact of incentives on forest plantation development as a highly productive and sustainable source of wood and non-timer forest products through a collection of country case studies including China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.
    Author
    Thomas Enters; Patrick B. Durst
    Publisher
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
    http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/ae535e/ae535e00.htm
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    What does it take? The role of incentives in forest plantation development in Asia and the Pacific, Part 2

    Description
    This report (in three parts) assesses the impact of incentives on forest plantation development as a highly productive and sustainable source of wood and non-timer forest products through a collection of country case studies including China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.
    Author
    Thomas Enters; Patrick B. Durst
    Publisher
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
    http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/ae535e/ae535e00.htm
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    What does it take? The role of incentives in forest plantation development in Asia and the Pacific, Part 3

    Description
    This report (in three parts) assesses the impact of incentives on forest plantation development as a highly productive and sustainable source of wood and non-timer forest products through a collection of country case studies including China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.
    Author
    Thomas Enters; Patrick B. Durst
    Publisher
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
    http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/ae535e/ae535e00.htm
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    When "conservation" leads to land degradation: lessons from Ban Lak Sip, Laos

    Description
    This report investigates the theory that the increasing land degradation in Ban Lak Sip in Laos is caused by the current farming systems, changes which have been determined by the Laotian social, economic and political setting. This report was published by IWMI in 2005.
    Author
    Guillaume Lestrelin; Mark Giordano; Bounmy Keohavong
    Publisher
    International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
    http://dx.doi.org/10.3910/2009.092
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    Wind power development: economics and policies

    Description
    This report examines the potential of wind power as a renewable energy source. It covers the current global distribution of wind power installations, future development prospects, costs of wind power generation, barriers to wind power development, policy instruments to support wind energy, integration of wind power into electricity grids, and climate change and wind power. The report is Policy Research Working Paper 4868 from the The World Bank Development Research Group, Environment and Energy Team, and was published in March 2009.
    Author
    G Cornelis van Kooten; Govinda R Timilsina
    Publisher
    The World Bank Group
    https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4063
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    Winds of change: East Asia's sustainable energy future

    Description
    This report demonstrates that countries in the East Asia region can move to a sustainable energy path, despite the challenges of rapid economic growth accompanied by rapid urbanization, and presents policy tools and financing mechanisms to advise these countries on how best to reach this goal, primarily through a low-carbon development model. Chapters include regional energy challenges, energy scenarios, unacceptable environmental damages and growing energy, improved environment and enhances security and transformative policy tools and financing mechanisms. This report was published by The World Bank in 2010.
    Author
    Xiaodong Wang; Noureddine Berrah; Subodh Mathur; Ferdinand Vinuya
    Publisher
    The World Bank Group
    https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2483
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    Woodfuels and climate change mitigation: case studies from Brazil, India and Mexico

    Description
    This paper examines the scope and potential for wood fuels to replace fossil fuels thereby contributing to climate change mitigation in Brazil, India and Mexico. It also analyses the potential for and implications of wood fuel development for climate change mitigation and presents the current woodfuel offset mechanisms in place and their relative emissions reduction potentials.
    Publisher
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
    http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1639e/i1639e00.pdf
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    Working wetlands: classifying wetland potential for agriculture

    Description
    This report defines "working wetlands" and provides a method of evaluation to determine the suitability of a working wetland for specified agricultural activities, based on its biophysical and socioeconomic suitability and an assessment of the possible hazards. This report was published by IWMI in 2005.
    Author
    Matthew P. McCartney; Mutsa Masiyandima; Helen A. Houghton-Carr
    Publisher
    International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
    http://dx.doi.org/10.3910/2009.091
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    World development indicators 2017

    Description
    World Development Indicators 2017 (WDI 2017) provides a compilation of relevant and internationally comparable statistics about global development compiled by the World Bank from officially recognised international sources. The World Development Indicators database has been improved to include more indicators that cover the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and more data disaggregated by sex, age, wealth quintile, and urban or rural location. New data includes access to clean cooking fuels and the number of industrial design applications registered globally. Please note: Data on the SDGs are now presented in a new companion publication, Atlas of SDGs 2017, which analyses and visualises World Development Indicators data to explore progress toward the goals for 2030 and catalyses discussion of measurement issues and data needs. Coverage 1960-2016. Last updated April 2017
    Publisher
    The World Bank Group
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/fbnl9uyvnzlwpnz/WDI_csv%202017%20%281%29.zip?dl=0

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