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Ex Post Written and Audiovisual Evaluation of the Limpopo National Park Development Project
The Limpopo National Park (LNP) is one of the largest parks in Mozambique. It covers 11,230 km 2 (an area the size of Ile-de-France) and is part of a larger transfrontier park that encompasses the Kru...
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Coping with the Collapse: A Stock-Flow Consistent Monetary Macrodynamics of Global Warming
This paper presents a macroeconomic model of endogenous growth that enables us to take into consideration both the economic impact of climate change and the pivotal role of private debt. Using the Goo...
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Toward an Analytical Framework for the Governance of Natural Resources: The Case of Groundwater
The issue of groundwater management challenges the paradigm along which the concept of good governance has developed since the 1990s. We show that in contexts involving multiple power structures, the...
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What is a sustainable agriculture sector?
In developing countries, many farmers live in poverty. How can the situation be reversed? Is it possible to give priority to environmentally friendly agricultural practices while allowing everyone to...
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A Simple Model of Agglomeration Economies with Environmental Externalities
This paper develops a simple though comprehensive economic theory of the relationship between space and environment. It generalizes earlier modeling efforts to address agglomeration and environmental...
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Confronting Drought in Africa’s Drylands : Opportunities for Enhancing Resilience
Drylands make up about 43 percent of the region’s land surface, account for about 75 percent of the area used for agriculture, and are home to about 50 percent of the population, including many poor....
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The Economics of Spatial Sustainability: General Theory and Application to Climate Change
This paper formalizes the notion of "spatial sustainability‘ of an economy in the presence of local and global environmental externalities. An extension is offered here of a new economic geography (NE...
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Green Growth and its Implications for Public Policy: The Case of South Africa
South Africa is a rapidly growing middle-income economy with a coal-based energy system that generates high greenhouse gases emissions, on a par with the richest economies in the world. The country ha...
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Facilitating green skills and jobs in developing countries
Des emplois et des compétences intégrants mieux les enjeux environnementaux sont indispensables pour à la fois lutter contre le changement climatique et s’adapter à ses effets. La transition vers une...
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Transitioning towards a low-carbon economy in Mexico: an application of the ThreeME model
This document offers an empirical application of the notion of energy transition to the Mexican economy and it takes the next step of simulating medium- and long-term impacts of proposed and future en...
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Double Dividend of Low-carbon Growth in Mexico: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Assessment
This paper simulates the medium- and long-term impact of proposed and expected energy policy on the environment and on the Mexican economy. The analysis has been conducted with a Multi-sector Macroeco...
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AFD and sustainable urban transport and mobility
Urban mobility is a core challenge for cities. In order to ensure that development is sustainable, inclusive and economically effective, the challenge lies in limiting the congestion that hinders citi...
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Actors and networks of agroecology in the Greater Mekong Subregion
A comparative analysis of agroecology network led to a classification based on their conditions of emergence, their structure and governance mechanisms. The study points the strengths and weaknesses o...
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Vulnerabilities to climate change in the French overseas territories and small island states
The Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Index (PVCCI) measures the vulnerability of small island territories to the impacts of climate change, whether periodic (cyclones, droughts) or progressive...
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Climate : how can a development agency help?
Our planet is warming. Why? Who are the foremost victims? And what are development agencies doing to ensure the transition towards a more low-carbon world? The more humankind goes forward, the more i...
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Evaluation Summary - Credit line to the Industrial Development Bank of Türkiye (TSKB)
For the “Climate” sector, the credit line to the Industrial Development Bank of Türkiye was subject to an evaluation in May 2015. In the context of the Turkish economy’s rapid growth and developmen...
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Beyond the maps
Through several interviews, this film shows how the African scientific community has appropriated technology to sustainably manage logging in forests, to the benefit of the people living in the Congo...
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Cities in Climate Change Mitigation Policy
Based on an in-depth review of scientific and institutional literature, this document seeks to identify what urban measures contribute efficiently to low-carbon urban development. It focuses on the co...
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Agriculture, Forests and Climate Change: Can Labelling Play a Part?
In the 2009 summit in Copenhagen, the international community agreed to mitigate climate change by assuring that global temperature will not increase more than 2°C between the pre-industrial period (1...
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Climate Change Adaptation in Cities: the conditions for success
For cities to protect themselves against climate change, strong political commitment is of course necessary. But just this is not enough: A panoply of institutional, strategic and social factors is al...
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