- Opportunities and constraints resulting from the role of tropical forests in climate change
- Canadian Forestry Advisers Network, 2001
- This CFAN Forestry Issues paper gives an overview of global climate change, its causes, its impact on forests, and how forests can help to mitigate it. It concludes that forest-related interventions can have numerous positive s...
- The problems and solutions of climate change are fundamentally linked to biodiversity conservation
- World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998
- Highlighting the contention that climate change itself is a major threat to biodiversity this report argues that protecting biological diversity may, in fact, help mitigate other impacts of climate change. In this light the authors ex...
- Forestry and food security from a variety of perspectives
- Unasylva, FAO, 2000
- Unasylva issue looking at different perpectives on issues of physical and economic access to food for forest dependent peoples. Articles are structured as a series of case studies from around the world to analyse the linkages between ...
- What does 'community' mean in community based approaches to resource management?
- A. Agrawal; C. C. Gibson / Mekonginfo, 1999
- The concept of community is rarely defined or carefully examined by those concerned with community based approaches to resource use and management. This paper seeks to redress this omission by investigating "community" in work concern...
- ODI series of papers looking at community forestry and wildlife management practice in Cameroon
- Policy and Environment Programme, ODI, 2001
- Collection which takes as its theme the many and important values which can be derived from community involvement in forest management in the humid tropics, focussing on one of the major timber producers of the tropical world – t...
- Using common property systems to manage forests
- J. E. M. Arnold / Forestry Department, FAO, 1998
- This comprehensive study brings together available information about the role of common property as a system of governance and its current relevance to forest management and use. A review of indigenous common property systems t...
- Why the poor benefit least from community forestry in Nepal
- Basundhara Bhattarai; Hemant R. Ojha / NepalNet, 2001
- Examines the distributional impact of community forest management on three economic groups (rich, medium and poor) in two selected forest user groups in the Koshi Hills of Nepal with the objective of assessing the costs and benefits o...
- Comparative look at plant variety protection measures under TRIPS, CBD, UPOVand some African countries interpretations.
- T Kongolo / GRAIN, 2001
- Examines the international protection of new varieties of plants, and outlines the difficulties developing countries in general, and African countries in particular, might encounter in the course of implementing these Conventions. ...
- Country and regional profiles of African non-wood forest products
- S. Walter / Forestry Department, FAO, 2001
- The report compiles country profiles for all African countries as well as regional and sub regional aggregations. The country profiles show that statistical information on non wood forest products (NWFP) at national level is scarce an...
- Producer, consumer and international measures to control the trade in illegally sourced forest products
- D. Brack; G. Hayman / Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2001
- This report presents a brief overview of the range of options for intergovernmental action to help combat illegal logging and trade in illegal timber and forest products. Actions by individual producer and consumer governments could b...
- People, Parks and Biodiversity: Issues in Population-Environment Dynamics
- J.A. McNeely; G. Ness / American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995
- This overview paper broadly addresses the complex relationship between biodiversity, people and protected areas. The authors see three main reasons why the relationship is problematic: first, biological diversity ("biodiversity") is a...
- Overview of the science of biodiversity and associated issues
- Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia, 1993
- Explains biodiversity and the three levels at which it is usually considered: genetic, species and ecosystem diversity. It also briefly discusses why biodiversity is important, especially the value of its components and diversity itse
- From Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador
- Sven Wunder / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
- In the literature about macroeconomics and deforestation, it is often supposed that strong foreign exchange outflows (e.g. debt service) increase deforestation, as higher poverty augments frontier migration and natural resources are s...
- Global desertification dimensions and costs
- H.E. Dregne; Nan-Ting Chou / Center for International Earth Science Information Network, 1992
- Trade and Environment: A Business Perspective
- K. Erlam; L. Plass / World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 1997
- The World Business Council for Sustainable Development rejects the notion of a trade versus environment debate.This report sets out directions and opportunities that can lead to mutual support between environmental protection and impr...
- Human face or human facade: adjustment and the health of mothers and children
- A. Costello; F. Watson; D. Woodward / Centre for International Child Health, London, 1994
- Report considers the effects of strutucal adjustment programmes on the health sector . Includes an annotated bibliography
- Forest History Society forestry bibliography
- Forest History Society, 1999
- A livelihoods review of projects in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, India
- C. Turton / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- Reviews the design of two new DFID projects in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, India. The projects aim to contribute to the Government of India’s efforts to eliminate poverty through support to its watershed development programme. Th...
- Why do households choose to invest in soil and water conservation?
- C. Boyd; C. Turton / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- Discusses the role of soil and water conservation (SWC) practices in sustainable livelihoods and presents preliminary findings from case studies conducted in Tanzania and Uganda. Describes the conditions under which households...
- InTech
- InTech is a multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of science, technology and medicine. Since 2004, InTech has collaborated with more than 83436 authors and published 2211 books and 7 journals with the aim of providing free online access to high-quality research and helping leading academics to make their work visible and accessible to diverse new audiences around the...
- Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
- The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment is a research centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The purpose of the Institute is: to increase knowledge and understanding by performing world-class research on climate change and the environment to promote better informed decision-making about clim...
- Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC)
- The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change is a non-profit research institution established in 2005, with the financial support of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. CMCC manages and promotes scientific and applied activities in the field of international climate change research. The Center has been fully operative since 2006. CMCC collaborates with experie...
- Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels (CTA)
- On 4th April, 2012, CTA organised a Briefing on “ACP Small island economies: from vulnerabilities to opportunities” with the European Commission (DG DEVCO), the ACP Secretariat, Concord and various media partners. The Brussels briefings website hosts the video documentation of all the speeches given at the conference, as well as the presentations of the speakers, the programme of...
- International Energy and Environment Foundation (IEEF)
- The International Energy and Environment Foundation (IEEF) is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit international organisation, which aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, research and technology to enhance capacity building in all areas related to green energy and the environment. IEEF publishes a peer-reviewed scientific journal, International Journal of Energy and Environment (IJ...
- GLOBE International
- The Global Legislators' Organisation (GLOBE) supports national parliamentarians to develop and agree common legislative responses to the major challenges posed by sustainable development. It supports legislators through national chapters which provide economic and policy support to develop legislation and monitor how it is implemented. The organisation has headquarters in London and off...
- Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on the Environment (TSHE)
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- Lowering Emissions in Asia's Forests (LEAF)
- The Lowering Emissions in Asia's Forests (LEAF) program is a five year, $20 million dollar program, engaging regional governments, forestry and climate mitigation specialists and universities in technical capacity building focused on REDD+. The program also focuses on policy and market incentives for improved forest management and land-use planning, develops innovative sub-national interventions,...
- Climate Focus
- An advisory company committed to the development of policies and projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM)
- A non-profit, independent research, policy and outreach organisation working towards achieving sustainable development in the Amazon region
