Environment Strategy Notes

The Strategy Notes, published regularly in a concise 4-page format, address analytical, methodological and operational issues relevant to strategy implementation with a view to mainstreaming environment into core operations of the World Bank. The series is multi-disciplinary in scope and covers a wide range of themes such as poverty, environment and health, environmental indicators, mainstreaming environment into the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), Country Assistance Strategies (CASs), and sector programs.

The overall aim of the series is to give guidance and provide a springboard for debating ideas and experiences by publishing internal Bank studies, lessons from specific policy initiatives, ongoing or completed research, critiques and review articles that have demonstrable relevance to strategy implementation.

	Environment Strategy Note No.1: Environment, Health and Poverty, 2002  (465KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.2: Country Assistance Strategies and the Environment – Taking Stock, 2002 (686KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.3: Payments for Environmental Services, 2002  English (542KB PDF) Spanish  (557KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.4: Mainstreaming Environment In Poverty Reduction Strategies, 2002 (621KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.5: The Poverty/Environment Nexus - Findings for Lao PDR, 2002 (578KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.6: Persistent Organic Pollutants - A Legacy of Environmental Harm and Threats to Health, 2003 (113KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.7: Assessing Environmental Policy - Regulatory and Insitutional Capacity, 2003 (127KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.8: World Bank Investments for the Urban Environment, 2003 (142KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.9: Assessing the Costs of Environmental Degradation in the Middle East and North Africa Region, 2003 (147KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.10: Ensuring Environmental Sustainability: Progress in Europe and Central Asia toward the Environmental MDG, 2004 (121KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.11:Rethinking the World Bank's Environmental Portfolio Distribution-Adjusting For Threats and Country Risk, 2004 (212KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.12: Integrating Environmental Issues into PRSPs in ECA Countries, 2005  (136KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.13: Mitigating Drought - Long-Term Planning to Reduce Vulnerability, 2005 (142KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.14: Strategic Environmental Assessment - Concept and Practice, 2005 (112KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.15: Using Strategic Environmental Assessment for Environmental Mainstreaming in the Water and Sanitation Sector - The Case of Argentina and Colombia, 2006 (791KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.16: Getting the Most for the Money - How Public Environmental Expenditure Reviews Can Help, 2006 (715KB PDF)
	Environment Strategy Note No.17: Mainstreaming Environment in the Energy Sector - the Case of the Energy- Environment Review for Iran (850 KB)