[open-sustainability] World Bank blog: turning to environmental data to understand forest losses and protected areas

[Jack Townsend]

http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/turning-environmental-data-understand-forest-losses-and-protected-areas

Turning to environmental data to understand forest losses and protected areas

Submitted by Mahyar Eshragh Tabary	 On Mon, 06/09/2014
Environmental resources differ from financial, human, and capital resources in a significant way – they are exhaustible.  And given the ever growing dependence on natural resources, this is an area that developing countries take seriously.

What have governments worldwide done to make certain that natural resources are protected?

How are they ensuring that their progress is sustainable and not just a windfall gain?

To answer these and other related questions, let's turn our attention to the Little Green Data Book 2014 (PDF), which draws from the World Development Indicators 2014 Environment section.

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