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Development
Emerging
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 Environment
and development: Policy, planning and management
Major
Assessments
 UNDP
Human
Development Report 2006
Throughout history water has confronted humanity with some of its greatest
challenges. Water is a source of life and a natural resource that sustains
our environments and supports livelihoods – but it is also a source
of risk and vulnerability. In the early 21st Century, prospects for human
development are threatened by a deepening global water crisis. Debunking
the myth that the crisis is the result of scarcity, this report argues
poverty, power and inequality are at the heart of the problem. |
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Reducing
Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development
UNDP, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery,
2004.
ISBN 92-1-126160-0
The Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) has drawn up this
global report with the aim to shed lights on the linkages between development
and disaster. The increasing impact of natural disasters on development
and the acknowledgement of development paths as determinant configuration
factors of disaster risk are the two main issues addressed in this Report.
It promotes disaster risk reduction through identifying appropriate development
policies integrating both disaster risk management and actions targeting
the 8 Millennium Development Goals achievement. |
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IMF
UN
ISDR
| Living
with Risk - A global review of disaster reduction initiatives
UN ISDR, 2004.
ISBN 92-1-101050-0 (two-volume set)
Vol I: ISBN 92-1-101064-0
Vol II: ISBN 92-1-101065-9
Living with Risk: A global review of disaster reduction initiatives brings
to light the urgent need for action to be taken – and the people
who are doing so – towards building sustainable societies in an
increasingly disaster-prone world. |
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WorldBank
World
Development Report 2007: Developement and the Next Generation
The International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development / The World Bank, 2006
ISBN : 0-8213-6549-5 ; 978-0-8213-6549-6
The theme of the World Development Report (WDR) 2007 is youth,
aged 12 to 24. It focuses on decisions concerning the five phases with
the biggest long-term impact on how human capital is kept safe, developed,
and deployed. For each phase (continuing to learn, starting to work, developing
a healthful lifestyle, beginning a family, and exercising citizenship)
governments must increase investments directly and cultivate an environment
for young people and their families to invest in themselves. The WDR suggests
that a youth lens on policies affecting the five phases would help focus
on three broad directions: expanding opportunities, enhancing capabilities,
and providing second chances. Each pathway (opportunities, capabilities,
and second chances) is applied to each of the transitions, generating
reform suggestions.To mobilize the economic and political resources to
stimulate such reforms, countries must resolve three issues: better coordination
and integration with national policy, stronger voice, and more evaluation.
In addition, the WDR examines both youth migration, and their increasing
use of new technologies. |
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World
Development Report 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World
The International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development / The World Bank, 2002.
ISBN : 0-8213-5187-7.
Available from: http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/wdr2003/
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