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245 00 $aEnvironmental priorities and poverty reduction :$ba country environmental analysis for Colombia /$cErnesto Sánchez-Triana, Kulsum Ahmed, Yewande Awe, editors.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bWorld Bank,$cc2007.
300 $aliv, 504 p. :$bill., maps ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aDirections in development. Environment and sustainable development
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aExecutive summary -- Inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene -- Urban and indoor air pollution -- Natural disasters -- Urban environmental management -- Water resources policies -- Soil degradation and deforestation -- Global environmental problems -- Institutional strengthening -- Conclusions -- Institutional change and environmental priorities -- Overview -- Objectives of the country environmental analysis -- CEA process and summary -- A unique model for environmental management -- Introduction -- Institutional and legal foundations: 1952-1974 -- Expansion of roles and legal frameworks: 1975-1993 -- Consolidating institutions, regulations, and planning: 1994-2005 -- Conclusions -- Actors and institutions -- Environmental information systems -- SINA's finances -- The Ministry of Environment -- National Environmental Council and National Technical Advisory Council -- National Planning Department (DNP) -- Institutes of investigation -- National Parks System --
505 0 $aPublic participation -- Control organizations -- Judiciary -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Decentralization: a balancing act -- Background -- Overall performance of CARs -- Allocation of CAR resources and priority setting -- Sources of CARs' financial resources -- Adequacy of human and technical resources -- Sanitation infrastructure -- Relationships between CARs and other SINA entities -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Setting environmental priorities: top down and bottom up -- Introduction -- Annual cost of environmental damage -- Water, sanitation, and hygiene -- Urban air pollution -- Indoor air pollution -- Agricultural land degradation -- Natural disasters -- Perception on environmental priority problems -- Conclusions -- Reducing the burden of disease through better environmental management -- Waterborne diseases remain widespread -- Background -- Assessment of policy design, efficiency, and effectiveness -- Analysis of policy implementation --
505 0 $aAnalysis of alternative interventions -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Improving air quality -- Introduction -- Air quality management -- Performance of the air quality management system -- Potential interventions to control air pollution -- Conclusions and recommendations -- A silent killer: indoor air pollution -- Introduction -- Acute respiratory illness in Colombia -- Health effects of indoor air pollution -- Stove efficiency -- Fuelwood consumption -- Cost of interventions -- Benefit-cost analysis -- Sensitivity analysis -- Effectiveness of indoor air pollution control programs -- Conclusions and recommendations -- The environmental cost of accelerated urban growth -- Introduction -- Urban growth and environment in Colombia -- Housing policy-main environmental difficulties and the government's response -- Conclusions and recommendations-housing and urban development -- Waste management -- Background and brief history -- Integrated waste management guidelines --
505 0 $aClean production agreements -- National development plan 2002-2006 -- Effectiveness of the waste management system -- Hazardous and medical waste management -- Clean production agreements -- Other selected issues related to waste management -- Conclusions and recommendations-waste management and urban development -- Living with natural disasters -- Introduction -- Natural disasters in Colombia -- Occurrence and impacts of natural disasters -- Effectiveness of policy design -- Assessment of natural disaster policies -- Evaluation of funding requirements and arrangements -- Evaluation of disaster planning -- Evaluation of land use plans and construction standards -- Challenges to disaster prevention -- Parallels between SNPAD and SINA -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Toward sustainable management of a rich endowment of natural resources -- Water management in a water-rich country -- Introduction -- Water quantity -- Main actors in water resources management policy design --
505 0 $aAnalysis of water resources management policy design -- Effectiveness of policy implementation -- Watershed administration and management -- Degradation of water bodies -- Policy design -- Policy implementation -- Water pollution control -- The case of Bogota's wastewater treatment plant -- Cartagena -- Conclusions -- Recommendations -- Land degradation and deforestation -- Introduction -- Soil erosion and salinization: magnitude and dimensions of the problem -- Soil erosion -- Soil erosion and salinization: policy design -- Soil erosion and salinization: policy implementation -- Forests -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Biodiversity loss and other global environmental problems -- Introduction -- Biodiversity -- The national protected areas system -- The policy for social participation in biodiversity conservation -- Climate change -- Ozone depletion -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Tackling environmental priorities -- References -- Tables.
651 0 $aColombia$xEnvironmental conditions.
650 0 $aEnvironmental health$zColombia.
650 0 $aPoverty$zColombia.
650 0 $aIndustries$xEnvironmental aspects$zColombia.
650 0 $aPollution$zColombia.
650 0 $aIndoor air pollution$zColombia.
650 0 $aFuel$xHealth aspects$zColombia.
700 1 $aSánchez Triana, Ernesto.
700 1 $aAhmed, Kulsum,$d1964-
700 1 $aAwe, Yewande.
710 2 $aWorld Bank.
830 0 $aDirections in development (Washington, D.C.).$pEnvironment and sustainable development.
988 $a20061130
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