Report of the Seminar-Workshop on Environmental and Economic Aspects of Industrial Waste Management

Contiene la asistencia, organización de los trabajos y resumen de los debates sobre los problemas ambientales y el desarrollo industrial; problemas asociados a la generación de residuos en diversas experiencias nacionales; la política ambiental en relación a la gestión de residuos; el sector industrial, la localización y el desarrollo tecnológico en la gestión de los residuos.

Climate Change and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Overview 2009

Includes bibliography

Report of the training workshop on the ECLAC methodology for assessing the macroeconomic, social and environmental impacts of natural disasters

.--Attendance.--Opening.--Agenda.--Special aspects of disasters in the context of small island States in the Caribbean.--Methodological and conceptual aspects of assessment.--Sector evaluation.--Infrastructure.--Economic (productive) sectors.--Information systems.--Effects of damages.--Institutional capacity.--Definition of the reconstruction strategy.--Closing remarks by presenters of the methodology.--Feedback, critique and comments on the ECLAC methodology.--Disaster assessment experiences.--Policy implications.--Follow-up.