Market-based approaches to environmental management, such as payment for environmental services (PES), have attracted unprecedented attention during the past decade.

This handbook is designed to serve as a guide for champions and practitioners engaged in the painstaking task of mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into national development planning.

This publication is one of the major outputs of the Water Environment Partnership in Asia (WEPA). WEPA aims to strengthen water environmental governance in Asia through the collection and dissemination of information and capacity development of relevant stakeholders in partnership with eleven countries in the region.

The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games were widely acclaimed as one of the most spectacular sporting events ever held, not least as a result of the sumptuous and dazzling opening ceremony and the high standards of competition from athletics and swimming to horse-jumping and yachting. But what of the environment which along with sport and culture is the third pillar of Olympism?

This document lays down the guidelines to address the environment and social safeguard impacts of the green transport projects in selected cities of India, to be taken up under the sustainable urban transport project of the Ministry of urban development.

The Tashiding HEP located in West Sikkim envisages the utilization of the flow of Rathong Chhu a tributary of Rangit River for the generation of electric power. Based on the findings of the Environmental Impact Assessment study, various