Research Highlights
World Bank research on energy, environment, water, and climate change provides information and insight on integrating environmentally sustainability with economic efficiency in advancing growth and poverty reduction. Issues concerning urban-regional development and infrastructure cut across all these topic areas.

Sustainable Rural and Urban Development Highlights
2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005

Environment and Energy Publications 
Recent scholarly publications by staff working in the area of Environment and Energy. Publications are organized by year and publication type. Journal Articles, Books, Book Chapters, and Outreach.
2011 |2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 

Articles and Briefs 

Non-technical summaries of emerging research. They are, more or less, the length of a newspaper column, meant for that vast majority of us who don’t have much time for reading, but but are backed up by and linked to the full studies.

Policy Research Working Papers

Disseminates findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. These are official working papers of the World Bank and are drawn from the World Bank's institutional archives. Each link opens a page with an abstract of the document and several download options.