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Date issued:
Dec 1997
El presente informe (ENV-114) da cuenta de la importancia humana de los ecosistemas de agua dulce, que además de servir de hábitat fundamentales para una amplia variedad de especies, proporcionan…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la incorporación del sector privado a los servicios de agua y saneamiento desde una doble perspectiva. De un lado, se discute en qué medida la incorporación…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
Este trabajo fue preparado para el proyecto "Los determinantes de la pobreza en América Latina" patrocinado por el PNUD, el BID y la CEPAL. El trabajo presenta un perfil de la evolución…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
In this best practice paper a mixed integer optimization approach to the selection of sanitary landfill site sizes and locations in a regional context is explained and illustrated using stylized cost…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
This paper analyzes the property rights/deforestation linkage in Latin America. The analysis recognizes two separate areas where tenure issues have an effect on land clearing pressures. The first…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
Conservation of freshwater biodiversity has been seriously neglected throughout the world, and entire ecosystems are threatened with extinction. Unfortunately, freshwater sustainability issues do not…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
This paper discusses privatization among investments in infrastructure. The goal of this paper is to present a new auction mechanism that solves many of the problems that have hindered the use of…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
The objective of this paper is to analyze some issues and challenges related to private toll road developments in Latin American countries and explore new schemes to mitigate some problems that often…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
This paper discusses the radical change of the role of the public sector in the financing of infrastructure projects during the nineties. The generalized response to the new environment has taken the…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
El interés en los problemas ambientales de los países en desarrollo ha dado lugar a una cantidad cada vez mayor de obras teóricas sobre la selección de instrumentos de política, en las cuales se…