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Young Conservationists And The Future Of Protected Areas Worldwide, Lisbet Kugler
Young Conservationists And The Future Of Protected Areas Worldwide, Lisbet Kugler
Yale School of the Environment Publications Series
A Call to Discussion at the Fifth World Parks Congress,Durban, South Africa, September 2003
Institutions And The Urban Environment In Developing Countries: Challenges, Trends, And Transitions, Carlos A. Linares
Institutions And The Urban Environment In Developing Countries: Challenges, Trends, And Transitions, Carlos A. Linares
Yale School of the Environment Publications Series
The paper discusses challenges, trends, and transitions in the urban environment field and offers an approach to meeting Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets in water supply and sanitation in urban areas. It updates the author’s 1994 publication Urban Environmental Challenges: New Directions for Technical Assistance to Cities inDeveloping Countries, published by the World Resources Institute. This paper begins by describing governance, decentralization, and privatization trends and drawing lessons from international development experiences in cities in developing countries. It argues that pervasive governance problems have led to environmental service deficits, particularly amongst the poor, who, at the same time, have demonstrated …
Environmental Exposures In The U.S. Electric Utility Industry, Robert Repetto, James Henderson
Environmental Exposures In The U.S. Electric Utility Industry, Robert Repetto, James Henderson
Yale School of the Environment Publications Series
Quantitative analysis of 47 U.S. electric utilities’ environmental exposures to impending air quality and climate policies shows potentially material and highly differentiated financial impacts. For many companies, the minimized compliance costs of a four-pollutant cap-and-trade regulatory regime would not necessarily exceed those of a three-pollutant regime that omitted controls on carbon dioxide emissions.Fragmented regulatory requirements would have the highest compliance costs. The companies studied vary considerably in the adequacy of their financial reporting of these potential impacts. Greater transparency would benefit investors and the most favorably positioned companies.