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The cost of environmental degradation : case studies from the Middle East and North Africa

Croitoru, Lelia, Sarraf, Maria

2010

Overview

Environmental degradation is costly, to individuals, to societies, and to the environment. This book, edited by Lelia Croitoru and Maria Sarraf, makes these costs clear by examining a number of studies carried out over the past few years by the World Bank's Middle East and North Africa region. Even more important than estimating the monetary cost of environmental degradation (COED), however, are the clear guidance and policy implications derived from these findings. This volume presents a new approach to estimating the impacts of environmental degradation. In the past, when government officials asked researchers the simple question how large are the impacts of environmental degradation? The response was often an emphatic 'large!' a rather imprecise number. The strength of this work is that it actually quantifies in economic terms how large is 'large' and thereby gains the attention of decision makers and offers specific insights for improved policy making. Finally, this book demonstrates the benefits of doing a coordinated, regional COED analysis that builds on the country-level studies. This two-tiered approach produces important synergies, in terms of both the methodologies used and the lessons learned.

• Publisher: World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank
• Subject: Africa, North / Africa, North -- Environmental conditions -- Case studies / AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION / AIR POLLUTION / AIR QUALITY / AQUACULTURE / AQUIFER / AQUIFERS / BARRAGES / CANCER / CARBON / CARBON DIOXIDE / Case studies / CHILD MORTALITY / CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM / CLEAN WATER / CLIMATE CHANGE / COASTAL AREAS / COASTAL WATER / COASTAL ZONES / CONSERVATION / CONTINGENT VALUATION / CONTINGENT VALUATION METHOD / Cost analysis / COST OF WATER / COST-BENEFIT ANALYSES / COVERING / CRITICAL APPRAISAL / CROP PRODUCTION / CUBIC METER / CUBIC METERS / DAMS / DEBRIS / DEFORESTATION / DESALINATION / DISCHARGE / DRAINAGE / DRINKING WATER / DRINKING WATER SUPPLY / ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS / ECONOMIC ACTIVITY / ECONOMIC ANALYSIS / ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES / ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT / ECONOMIC VALUE / ECOSYSTEM / EMISSION STANDARDS / EMISSIONS / ENERGY EFFICIENCY / ENVIRONMENTAL / Environmental conditions / ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGES / ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION / Environmental degradation -- Africa, North -- Case studies / Environmental degradation -- Middle East -- Case studies / Environmental effects / ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS / ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT / ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES / ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM / ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION / ENVIRONMENTAL RISK / Estimation / EXPENDITURES / EXPLOITATION / FISH / FISHERIES / FISHING / FLOODS / FORAGE PRODUCTION / FORESTRY / FRESHWATER / FUEL CONSUMPTION / GAS / GRAVITY / GROUNDWATER / GROUNDWATER RESOURCES / GROUNDWATER TABLE / HEALTH PROBLEMS / HYDROGEN / IMPORTS / INDUSTRIAL SECTOR / INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT / INVESTMENT PROJECT / IRRIGATION / LAND DEGRADATION / LAND RESOURCES / MANGROVE / MARINE SCIENCES / MARINE WATERS / MENA-Staaten / Middle East / Middle East -- Environmental conditions -- Case studies / MORTALITY RATE / NATIONAL INCOME / NATURAL RESOURCES / NITROGEN / NITROGEN OXIDES / NON-USE VALUES / North Africa / OIL / OPPORTUNITY COSTS / OVERGRAZING / PHOSPHATE / POLICY MAKERS / Pollution / POOR WATER QUALITY / POPULATION GROWTH / POWER GENERATION / POWER STATION / PRESENT VALUE / PRIVATE WELLS / PROGRAMS / PUBLIC HEALTH / PUBLIC WELLS / PUMPING / QUALITY STANDARDS / QUANTITY OF WATER / RANGELANDS / RECHARGE / REPLACEMENT COSTS / RESERVOIR SEDIMENTATION / RESOURCE USE / RIVERS / SALINITY / SALTWATER INTRUSION / SANITATION / SANITATION FACILITIES / SANITATION SERVICES / SCIENCES / SEA / SEAWATER / SHORELINE / SOCIAL COSTS / SOIL DEGRADATION / SOLID WASTE / SOURCES OF WATER / STORAGE CAPACITY / SUD / SURFACE WATER / SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT / SUSTAINABLE USE / TIMBER / TURBIDITY / Umweltbelastung / URBAN AREAS / USE VALUE / Valuation / WASTE COLLECTION / WASTE DISPOSAL / WASTEWATER / WASTEWATER TREATMENT / WATER DEMAND / WATER EXPLOITATION / WATER EXTRACTION / WATER POLLUTION / WATER QUALITY / WATER QUANTITY / WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT / WATER SAVINGS / WATER SCARCITY / WATER SECTOR / WATER SOURCE / WATER SUPPLIES / WATER SUPPLY / WATER TRANSFER / WATER USE / WATER USER / WATERSHED / WELLS / WETLANDS / WILLINGNESS TO PAY / WTP
• ISBN: 0821383183, 9780821383186