Georgia Country Environmental Analysis : Institutional, Economic, and Poverty Aspects of Georgia’s Road to Environmental Sustainability

During the past decade, Georgia’s pursuit of economic reforms led to impressive economic growth, capital inflow, and investments. It helped improve the business environment and infrastructure, strengthened public finances, and liberalized trade. Ge...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	NATIONAL ACCOUNTING OVERGRAZING SOCIAL COSTS CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ECONOMIC INCENTIVES GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION CARBON DIOXIDE ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AIR QUALITY WASTE MANAGEMENT FOREST MANAGEMENT CARBON ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ECONOMIC WELFARE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION NITROGEN OXIDES PRODUCERS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS HEAVY METALS TIMBER RESOURCE ALLOCATION LABOR FORCE RIVER BASINS EMISSIONS REVENUES ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES POLLUTION TAX ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS INCENTIVES ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES EQUILIBRIUM SOIL PRODUCTIVITY MODELS ECONOMIC GOODS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY WILLINGNESS TO PAY RESOURCE USE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY PRESENT VALUE EXPLOITATION ARABLE LAND OIL AIR POLLUTION NATURAL CAPITAL CLEAN FUELS CULTIVABLE LAND POPULATION GROWTH LABOR PRODUCTIVITY EXTERNALITIES POLLUTION LEVELS POLLUTION REDUCTION CARBON TAXES LAND DEGRADATION POLLUTION FORESTRY LAND RESOURCES ECONOMIC POLICIES DIVIDENDS DEMOGRAPHIC GROWTH BARLEY ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS NATURAL RESOURCES METALS GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL EXPENDITURES SUBSIDIES GREENHOUSE GASES TAXES CANCER ACCESS TO INFORMATION LAND USE RESOURCES UNEMPLOYMENT DEREGULATION EQUITY CONSUMPTION ECONOMIC IMPACT CONTINUOUS MONITORING WAGES CLIMATE CHANGE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT VALUES PRICE ELASTICITIES MARKET PRICES ECONOMIC VALUE POLICY MAKERS ELASTICITIES QUALITY STANDARDS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS PURCHASING POWER DEFORESTATION DEMAND ABATEMENT NATIONAL INCOME MINES SOLID WASTES SUSTAINABLE GROWTH ENDANGERED SPECIES ENVIRONMENTAL TAXES PRICE CHANGES EXPENDITURES PROPERTY PRIVATE GOODS ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION LOGGING DECISION MAKING POLLUTION ABATEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE HUMAN BEHAVIOR ENVIRONMENT GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS WASTE DISPOSAL COMMON PROPERTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES TRADE POLLUTERS LAND LAND PRODUCTIVITY DRINKING WATER CONSUMPTION PATTERNS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION COAL FARMS BASELINE LEVELS POLLUTION CHARGES REVENUE POLLUTION CONTROL EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE SULFUR DIOXIDE RISK MANAGEMENT LIVING CONDITIONS RECYCLING ECONOMISTS ENERGY TAXES ARSENIC PASTURES PROPERTY VALUES POLLUTION CONCENTRATION INTERMEDIATE INPUTS EMISSION STANDARDS ENVIRONMENTAL LABOR MARKETS WETLANDS COST ANALYSIS POLLUTION TAXES PRICES NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES ECONOMIES PRODUCTION PROCESSES ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
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topic	NATIONAL ACCOUNTING OVERGRAZING SOCIAL COSTS CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ECONOMIC INCENTIVES GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION CARBON DIOXIDE ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AIR QUALITY WASTE MANAGEMENT FOREST MANAGEMENT CARBON ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ECONOMIC WELFARE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION NITROGEN OXIDES PRODUCERS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS HEAVY METALS TIMBER RESOURCE ALLOCATION LABOR FORCE RIVER BASINS EMISSIONS REVENUES ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES POLLUTION TAX ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS INCENTIVES ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES EQUILIBRIUM SOIL PRODUCTIVITY MODELS ECONOMIC GOODS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY WILLINGNESS TO PAY RESOURCE USE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY PRESENT VALUE EXPLOITATION ARABLE LAND OIL AIR POLLUTION NATURAL CAPITAL CLEAN FUELS CULTIVABLE LAND POPULATION GROWTH LABOR PRODUCTIVITY EXTERNALITIES POLLUTION LEVELS POLLUTION REDUCTION CARBON TAXES LAND DEGRADATION POLLUTION FORESTRY LAND RESOURCES ECONOMIC POLICIES DIVIDENDS DEMOGRAPHIC GROWTH BARLEY ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS NATURAL RESOURCES METALS GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL EXPENDITURES SUBSIDIES GREENHOUSE GASES TAXES CANCER ACCESS TO INFORMATION LAND USE RESOURCES UNEMPLOYMENT DEREGULATION EQUITY CONSUMPTION ECONOMIC IMPACT CONTINUOUS MONITORING WAGES CLIMATE CHANGE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT VALUES PRICE ELASTICITIES MARKET PRICES ECONOMIC VALUE POLICY MAKERS ELASTICITIES QUALITY STANDARDS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS PURCHASING POWER DEFORESTATION DEMAND ABATEMENT NATIONAL INCOME MINES SOLID WASTES SUSTAINABLE GROWTH ENDANGERED SPECIES ENVIRONMENTAL TAXES PRICE CHANGES EXPENDITURES PROPERTY PRIVATE GOODS ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION LOGGING DECISION MAKING POLLUTION ABATEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE HUMAN BEHAVIOR ENVIRONMENT GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS WASTE DISPOSAL COMMON PROPERTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES TRADE POLLUTERS LAND LAND PRODUCTIVITY DRINKING WATER CONSUMPTION PATTERNS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION COAL FARMS BASELINE LEVELS POLLUTION CHARGES REVENUE POLLUTION CONTROL EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE SULFUR DIOXIDE RISK MANAGEMENT LIVING CONDITIONS RECYCLING ECONOMISTS ENERGY TAXES ARSENIC PASTURES PROPERTY VALUES POLLUTION CONCENTRATION INTERMEDIATE INPUTS EMISSION STANDARDS ENVIRONMENTAL LABOR MARKETS WETLANDS COST ANALYSIS POLLUTION TAXES PRICES NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES ECONOMIES PRODUCTION PROCESSES ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
spellingShingle	NATIONAL ACCOUNTING OVERGRAZING SOCIAL COSTS CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ECONOMIC INCENTIVES GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION CARBON DIOXIDE ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AIR QUALITY WASTE MANAGEMENT FOREST MANAGEMENT CARBON ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ECONOMIC WELFARE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION NITROGEN OXIDES PRODUCERS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS HEAVY METALS TIMBER RESOURCE ALLOCATION LABOR FORCE RIVER BASINS EMISSIONS REVENUES ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES POLLUTION TAX ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS INCENTIVES ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES EQUILIBRIUM SOIL PRODUCTIVITY MODELS ECONOMIC GOODS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY WILLINGNESS TO PAY RESOURCE USE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY PRESENT VALUE EXPLOITATION ARABLE LAND OIL AIR POLLUTION NATURAL CAPITAL CLEAN FUELS CULTIVABLE LAND POPULATION GROWTH LABOR PRODUCTIVITY EXTERNALITIES POLLUTION LEVELS POLLUTION REDUCTION CARBON TAXES LAND DEGRADATION POLLUTION FORESTRY LAND RESOURCES ECONOMIC POLICIES DIVIDENDS DEMOGRAPHIC GROWTH BARLEY ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS NATURAL RESOURCES METALS GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL EXPENDITURES SUBSIDIES GREENHOUSE GASES TAXES CANCER ACCESS TO INFORMATION LAND USE RESOURCES UNEMPLOYMENT DEREGULATION EQUITY CONSUMPTION ECONOMIC IMPACT CONTINUOUS MONITORING WAGES CLIMATE CHANGE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT VALUES PRICE ELASTICITIES MARKET PRICES ECONOMIC VALUE POLICY MAKERS ELASTICITIES QUALITY STANDARDS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS PURCHASING POWER DEFORESTATION DEMAND ABATEMENT NATIONAL INCOME MINES SOLID WASTES SUSTAINABLE GROWTH ENDANGERED SPECIES ENVIRONMENTAL TAXES PRICE CHANGES EXPENDITURES PROPERTY PRIVATE GOODS ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION LOGGING DECISION MAKING POLLUTION ABATEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE HUMAN BEHAVIOR ENVIRONMENT GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS WASTE DISPOSAL COMMON PROPERTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES TRADE POLLUTERS LAND LAND PRODUCTIVITY DRINKING WATER CONSUMPTION PATTERNS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION COAL FARMS BASELINE LEVELS POLLUTION CHARGES REVENUE POLLUTION CONTROL EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE SULFUR DIOXIDE RISK MANAGEMENT LIVING CONDITIONS RECYCLING ECONOMISTS ENERGY TAXES ARSENIC PASTURES PROPERTY VALUES POLLUTION CONCENTRATION INTERMEDIATE INPUTS EMISSION STANDARDS ENVIRONMENTAL LABOR MARKETS WETLANDS COST ANALYSIS POLLUTION TAXES PRICES NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES ECONOMIES PRODUCTION PROCESSES ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES World Bank Georgia Country Environmental Analysis : Institutional, Economic, and Poverty Aspects of Georgia’s Road to Environmental Sustainability
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description	During the past decade, Georgia’s pursuit of economic reforms led to impressive economic growth, capital inflow, and investments. It helped improve the business environment and infrastructure, strengthened public finances, and liberalized trade. Georgia achieved most of the human development targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This progress did not result, however, in improved environmental governance or better management of natural resources. Nowadays, environmental policies are receiving increasing attention from Georgian policy and decision makers, recognizing that sustainable development is about a profound change of policies that drive systemic transformation of production, consumption, and behavioral patterns. The list of the country’s environmental challenges is long. Current policies and instruments lack the rigor to effectively reduce pressures on natural assets and protect public health from poor environmental quality. Georgia does not have a comprehensive assessment of the cost of inaction to environmental degradation linking it to economic growth, poverty, and shared prosperity. This is a central issue on which the Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) is focused. The main objective of the CEA is to assist the government, civil society, and development partners of Georgia in identifying and analyzing critical environmental constraints to sustainable growth and shared prosperity. Georgia’s Country Partnership Strategy for 2014-2017 points to lagging public policies on protecting the environment and natural resources, against impressive economic growth. It further highlights several areas needing attention, such as air and water quality, waste management, land and landscape management, and nature resource use and protection.
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title	Georgia Country Environmental Analysis : Institutional, Economic, and Poverty Aspects of Georgia’s Road to Environmental Sustainability
title_short	Georgia Country Environmental Analysis : Institutional, Economic, and Poverty Aspects of Georgia’s Road to Environmental Sustainability
title_full	Georgia Country Environmental Analysis : Institutional, Economic, and Poverty Aspects of Georgia’s Road to Environmental Sustainability
title_fullStr	Georgia Country Environmental Analysis : Institutional, Economic, and Poverty Aspects of Georgia’s Road to Environmental Sustainability
title_full_unstemmed	Georgia Country Environmental Analysis : Institutional, Economic, and Poverty Aspects of Georgia’s Road to Environmental Sustainability
title_sort	georgia country environmental analysis : institutional, economic, and poverty aspects of georgia’s road to environmental sustainability
publisher	Washington, DC
publishDate	2015
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24750133/georgia-country-environmental-analysis-institutional-economic-poverty-aspects-georgia’s-road-environmental-sustainability http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22287
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spelling	okr-10986-222872021-04-23T14:04:08Z Georgia Country Environmental Analysis : Institutional, Economic, and Poverty Aspects of Georgia’s Road to Environmental Sustainability World Bank NATIONAL ACCOUNTING OVERGRAZING SOCIAL COSTS CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ECONOMIC INCENTIVES GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION CARBON DIOXIDE ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AIR QUALITY WASTE MANAGEMENT FOREST MANAGEMENT CARBON ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ECONOMIC WELFARE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION NITROGEN OXIDES PRODUCERS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS HEAVY METALS TIMBER RESOURCE ALLOCATION LABOR FORCE RIVER BASINS EMISSIONS REVENUES ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES POLLUTION TAX ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS INCENTIVES ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES EQUILIBRIUM SOIL PRODUCTIVITY MODELS ECONOMIC GOODS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY WILLINGNESS TO PAY RESOURCE USE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY PRESENT VALUE EXPLOITATION ARABLE LAND OIL AIR POLLUTION NATURAL CAPITAL CLEAN FUELS CULTIVABLE LAND POPULATION GROWTH LABOR PRODUCTIVITY EXTERNALITIES POLLUTION LEVELS POLLUTION REDUCTION CARBON TAXES LAND DEGRADATION POLLUTION FORESTRY LAND RESOURCES ECONOMIC POLICIES DIVIDENDS DEMOGRAPHIC GROWTH BARLEY ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS NATURAL RESOURCES METALS GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL EXPENDITURES SUBSIDIES GREENHOUSE GASES TAXES CANCER ACCESS TO INFORMATION LAND USE RESOURCES UNEMPLOYMENT DEREGULATION EQUITY CONSUMPTION ECONOMIC IMPACT CONTINUOUS MONITORING WAGES CLIMATE CHANGE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT VALUES PRICE ELASTICITIES MARKET PRICES ECONOMIC VALUE POLICY MAKERS ELASTICITIES QUALITY STANDARDS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS PURCHASING POWER DEFORESTATION DEMAND ABATEMENT NATIONAL INCOME MINES SOLID WASTES SUSTAINABLE GROWTH ENDANGERED SPECIES ENVIRONMENTAL TAXES PRICE CHANGES EXPENDITURES PROPERTY PRIVATE GOODS ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION LOGGING DECISION MAKING POLLUTION ABATEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE HUMAN BEHAVIOR ENVIRONMENT GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS WASTE DISPOSAL COMMON PROPERTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES TRADE POLLUTERS LAND LAND PRODUCTIVITY DRINKING WATER CONSUMPTION PATTERNS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION COAL FARMS BASELINE LEVELS POLLUTION CHARGES REVENUE POLLUTION CONTROL EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE SULFUR DIOXIDE RISK MANAGEMENT LIVING CONDITIONS RECYCLING ECONOMISTS ENERGY TAXES ARSENIC PASTURES PROPERTY VALUES POLLUTION CONCENTRATION INTERMEDIATE INPUTS EMISSION STANDARDS ENVIRONMENTAL LABOR MARKETS WETLANDS COST ANALYSIS POLLUTION TAXES PRICES NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES ECONOMIES PRODUCTION PROCESSES ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES During the past decade, Georgia’s pursuit of economic reforms led to impressive economic growth, capital inflow, and investments. It helped improve the business environment and infrastructure, strengthened public finances, and liberalized trade. Georgia achieved most of the human development targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This progress did not result, however, in improved environmental governance or better management of natural resources. Nowadays, environmental policies are receiving increasing attention from Georgian policy and decision makers, recognizing that sustainable development is about a profound change of policies that drive systemic transformation of production, consumption, and behavioral patterns. The list of the country’s environmental challenges is long. Current policies and instruments lack the rigor to effectively reduce pressures on natural assets and protect public health from poor environmental quality. Georgia does not have a comprehensive assessment of the cost of inaction to environmental degradation linking it to economic growth, poverty, and shared prosperity. This is a central issue on which the Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) is focused. The main objective of the CEA is to assist the government, civil society, and development partners of Georgia in identifying and analyzing critical environmental constraints to sustainable growth and shared prosperity. Georgia’s Country Partnership Strategy for 2014-2017 points to lagging public policies on protecting the environment and natural resources, against impressive economic growth. It further highlights several areas needing attention, such as air and water quality, waste management, land and landscape management, and nature resource use and protection. 2015-07-23T18:02:39Z 2015-07-23T18:02:39Z 2015-06 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24750133/georgia-country-environmental-analysis-institutional-economic-poverty-aspects-georgia’s-road-environmental-sustainability http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22287 English en_US Environment and natural resources global practice country environmental analysis; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) Europe and Central Asia Georgia

Georgia Country Environmental Analysis : Institutional, Economic, and Poverty Aspects of Georgia’s Road to Environmental Sustainability

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