Research Catalog

Title

The cost of environmental degradation : case studies from the Middle East and North Africa / Lelia Croitoru and Maria Sarraf, editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Croitoru, Lelia
• Sarraf, Maria
• Arif, Sherif

Description

xviii, 168 p. ; ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Subjects

• Case studies
• Africa, North > Environmental conditions > Case studies
• Middle East > Environmental conditions > Case studies
• Environmental degradation > Africa, North > Case studies
• Environmental degradation > Middle East > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Lelia Croitoru and Maria Sarraf -- Water degradation : the case of Tunisia / Lelia Croitoru, Maria Sarraf [and others] -- Air pollution : the case of Jordan / Leila Croitoru, Raffaello Cervigni, and Amer Jabarin -- Deforestation and forest degradation : the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran / Lelia Croitoru -- Land degradation : the case of Morocco / Maria Sarraf and Abdeljaouad Jorio -- Oil spill and waste due to conflict : the case of Lebanon / Maria Sarraf, Lelia Croitoru [and others] -- Implications for policies, investments, and institutions / Sherif Arif.

ISBN

• 9780821383186
• 0821383183
• 9780821383964 (electronic)
• 0821383965 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2010010933

OCLC

• 503048726
• SCSB-11957387

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library