The new World Bank report, “Banking on Protected Areas: Promoting Sustainable Protected Area Tourism to Benefit Local Communities”, was launched on June 14, 2021. The report estimates the economic impact of tourism in protected areas on the local economies and makes the case that the promotion of sustainable tourism in protected areas should be actively included in economic development and recovery strategies given its ability to support economic growth, generate jobs and conserve biodiversity.
At this online seminar, co-authors of the report, Urvashi Narain, Lead Economist, Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice, and Phoebe Spencer, Environment Specialist, Environment, Natural Resources, and Blue Economy Global Practice, will introduce the main points of the report. This seminar will be conducted in English, without interpretation into Japanese.
Date/Time:
8am-9am, Friday June 25, 2021 (Japan Standard Time)
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Speakers:
Urvashi Narain
Lead Economist, Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice, World Bank
Urvashi Narain is a lead economist in the World Bank’s Environment, Natural Resources, and Blue Economy global practice, with over 20 years’ experience on issues at the intersection of environment and development policy. Her areas of expertise span from air pollution management, and watershed management, to nature-based tourism. She led the 2016 World Bank publication: The Cost of Air Pollution: Strengthening the Economic Case for Action that influenced World Bank operations in air quality management across South Asia, Middle East and North Africa, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Currently she leads the Air Pollution and COVID-19 initiative at the Bank. For the past six years she has developed a partnership with the Natural Capital Project to bring innovative tools to World Bank operations on watershed management mapping, valuing, and prioritizing investments in ecosystem services. Until recently she led the Nature-based Tourism Community at the World Bank, and currently leads the Environmental Economics Community, a group of 40 environmental economists at the World Bank. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Environmental and Resource Economics, and Land Economics.
Phoebe Spencer
Environment Specialist, Environment, Natural Resources, and Blue Economy Global Practice, World Bank
Presentation material:
To be posted in advance to the seminar.
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