Informe del Seminario Regional sobre Sistemas Ambientales y Estrategias para Ampliar la Frontera Agropecuaria en América Latina = Report of the Regional Seminar on Environmental Systems and Strategies for Extending the Agricultural Frontier in Latin America

Contiene los antecedentes y el resumen de los debates del seminario que tuvo como propósito hacer un aporte a la ejecución del proyecto del mismo nombre cuyo objetivo básico es propiciar metodologías viables que tiendan a disminuir el costo ecológico de las transformaciones y a formar silvoagrosistemas sustentables, y que puedan ser utilizados por los planificadores y encargados de proyectos de desarrollo agrícola y regional en áreas de expansión de frontera agropecuaria.

SMEs in the environmental goods and services market: identifying areas of opportunity, policies and instruments: case studies: Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Mexico

Includes bibliography

Activities report of the initiative group of the working group on environmental statistics

Includes bibliography

Assessment of the socioeconomic and environmental impact of hurricane Ivan on Jamaica

Includes bibliography

Methodological Guide for developing Environmental and Sustainable Development Indicators in Latin American and Caribbean countries

This methodological guide is intended as a practical tool for the design and implementation of systems of national indicators to evaluate the success of environmental and sustainable development initiatives, and to define policymaking priorities. The methodology derives from work carried out in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries keeping in mind that the manner in which indicators are constructed and updated has an impact on their overall quality and possible uses.

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.