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Bayón, Ricardo; Lovink, J. Steven; Veening, Wouter J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

Financing the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity has been called one of the greatest challenges. At the heart of this challenge lies the low financial and political value which is often assigned to biodiversity and the resulting lack of financial mechanisms for conservation and...

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Adaptation to Climate Change and Managing Disaster Risk in the Caribbean and South-East Asia

Agency, Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response; Center, … - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2003

This report includes the proceedings of the Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather Events in the Caribbean and Asia, held in Barbados at the Grand Barbados Beach Resort on July 24-25, 2003. The seminar provided a forum in which experts from the Southeast Asian and Caribbean regions...

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Climate Change and the Caribbean: Areas of Intervention: Financing for the Caribbean Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Unit (ECC), Infrastructure and Environment Department (IN...

Alleng, Gerard - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This presentation discusses the cost of impacts of climate change on the Caribbean. The response of adaptation will need to be applied towards an integral strategy to build on disaster risk reduction best practices and climate risk management. The response of the IDB to the climate change needs...

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Climate Change's Impact on the Caribbean's Ability to Sustain Tourism, Natural Assests and Livelihoods

Simpson, Murray; Scott, Daniel; Trotz, Ulric - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

In this technical note, the authors present the effects of climate change on tourism development in the Caribbean … decision makers in the tourism sector, climate change is a new strategic reality. Increasingly, institutional investors, banks …

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Environmental and Social, Health and Safety Management System ESHSMS: Small Hotels and Resorts

Hoagland-Grey, Hilary; Arneson, Lynn - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

When investing in small and mid-size hotel projects, the IDB, as a general rule, requires that the Sponsor develop and implement an environmental and social management system (ESHSMS). The ESHSMS is typically developed after completion of the Environmental Assessment Process which, depending on...

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Tourism and Economic Growth in Latin American Countries: A Panel Data Approach

Eugenio-Martín, Juan Luis; Morales, Noelia Martín; … - 2004

We consider the relationship between tourism and economic growth for Latin American countries since 1985 until 1998 … variables. We show that the tourism sector is adequate for the economic growth of medium or low-income countries, though not … growth, we try to explain tourism arrivals conditional on GDP and other covariates such as safety, prices and education level …

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Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies in Italy: An economic assessment

Carraro, Carlo; Sgobbi, Alessandra - 2008

.g. tourism) and the alpine regions will suffer significant economic damages. …

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Economy-Wide Estimates of the Implications of Climate Change: A Joint Analysis for Sea Level Rise and Tourism

Bosello, Francesco; Bigano, Andrea; Roson, Roberto; … - 2006

on the economic assessment of two specific climate change impacts: sea-level rise and changes in tourism flows. By using … impact category to the final result. In the case under scrutiny demand shocks induced by changes in tourism flows outweigh …

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A further step into the ELGH and TLGH for Spain and Italy

Cortés_Jiménez, Isabel; Pulina, Manuela - 2006

Nowadays many developing countries focus on economic policies for promoting international tourism and exports expansion … and economic growth is still ongoing. When treating the relationship between tourism and economic growth, considering … tourism as a non-traditional export few studies have been published to date. This paper has the objective to assess if exports …

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Climate Amenities and Adaptation to Climate Change: A Hedonic-Travel Cost Approach for Europe

Barrios, Salvador; Rivas, J. Nicolás Ibañez - 2014

focusing on tourism demand. Our hedonic price estimations combine detailed hotel price information with tourism-specific travel …

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