Striking a balance : the environmental challenge of development
Nicolini, Juan Pablo | Hevia, Constantino
To achieve balanced, sustainable development, the World Bank is moving to integrate environmental considerations into its work. The goal is to blur the lines between environmental activities and the rest of the Bank's work - to make them one. The Bank has initiated and participated in studies to introduce explicit environmental considerations into development planning and activities. These studies are a means to an end : building developing countries' capacity to protect the environment. The first class of studies, prepared for internal Bank use, are descriptions of environmental problems facing each borrowing country. These inventories discuss underlying environmental problems, as well as the constraints : legal, institutional, managerial, and technical that hamper solutions. In a second class of studies, the Bank helps countries create national strategies to protect their own natural endowments. These environmental action plans provide the framework for integrating environmental considerations into a nation's economic and social development planning. Where environmental problems spread across national boundaries, the Bank is beginning to prepare and participate in regional studies. This program sets an example on the role of development Banks in protecting the environment of a region.
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