- Overview and member states summaries of progress over the first two years of the G8 Forestry plan
- Group of 8 Information Centre, 2000
- Uncontroversial asessment of the actions taken by G8 countries. Useful primarily as a catalogue of the new projects - and to a lesser degree policy initiatives - which have arisen as a result of this programme. Principle areas ...
- Ten papers on fuelwood
- Policy and Environment Programme, ODI, 2002
- Collection of ten papers looking at the impacts and issues arising from fuelwood use. Also case studies from a number of countries covering forest energy strategies and the development of alternatives. The papers included are a...
- How logging bans have had significant economic and social impacts but minimal success in conserving forests.
- Forestry Department, FAO, 2000
- In light of several Asia Pacific nations imposing bans on logging of natural forests this study examines their experiences, assesses the impacts and outlines conditions necessary for the success of logging bans. The study found...
- FAO's assessment of global forest resources for 2000
- Forest Resources Assessment and National Forestry Action Plans (NFAP), FAO, 2001
- Main paper presenting methods and findings from the latest FAO assessment of global forest resources. The report analyses base data from over 200 countries to produce country, sub-regional, regional and global summaries. Some g...
- Training manual on water suppy and sanitation
- F. Brikké / IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2001
- Training package designed as a guide to facilitators who run courses or workshops on the management of operation and maintenance of rural water supply and sanitation services. It aims to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and susta...
- Are community-based animal health systems a realistic option for improving primary veterinary services in Somalia?
- A. Catley / Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1999
- This review is based on the question "are community-based animal health systems a realistic option for improving primary veterinary services in Somalia?" The article finds that: experience in Southern Sudan sugge...
- Accumulated change in ecosystem vulnerability means small disturbances can cause catastophic shifts in state.
- M. Scheffer; S. Carpenter; J. A. Foley; C. Folke; B. Walker / Wageningen University, Netherlands, 2001
- Evidence suggests that major ecosystems can shift to alternative and contrasting stable states depending on environmental conditions. The authors propose a theoretical model for these shifts. This is based on the idea that as external...
- Industry is securing monopoly control over technology, products and processes
- Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration formerly RAFI, 2001
- Intellectual property has proved a poor mechanism in corporations battle to monopolise new biotechnologies. Industry has therefore developed alternatives which can be grouped into three categories: Biological monopolies...
- Land law and use right in African forests
- L.A. Wily; S. Mbaya / Land Rights in Africa, Oxfam, 2000
- Examines the relationship of people’s rights in land to the manner in which they may be involved in the management of forests in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho and to...
- How to guide for decision makers on integrating biodiversity into development policy
- World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
- Reviews the importance of biodiversity for development and the causes of biodiversity loss, and lists key actions that need to be taken by policy makers, programme designers and coordinators, and project implementers to ensure the int...
- Climate change adaptation for coral triangle communities: a guide for vulnerability assessment and local early action planning (LEAP guide)
- 2013
- This comprehensive set of scientific and social instruments helps local governments and communities to assess their vulnerability to climate change and form their own climate change adaptation plans to address local conditions. So far...
- DETERring deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: environmental monitoring and law enforcement
- J. Assunção; C. Gandour; R. Rocha / Climate Policy Initiative, 2013
- This study asks: which specific policy efforts contributed most to the reduction in Amazon deforestation? The paper, which evaluates the impact of monitoring on deforestation, focuses on DETER, a satellite-based system for real-time d...
- Assessment of REDD+ training needs and supply in six countries in the Africa and Asia-Pacific Regions
- Conservation International, 2013
- REDD+ capacity building is fundamental to achieving REDD+ readiness. There is little data, however, that describe the type of capacity building and the number of people that are reached with these initiatives in REDD+ countries. The l...
- Bringing people back into protected forests in developing countries: insights from co-management in Malawi
- L. Zulu / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- Focusing on Malawi, this study examines struggles to bring people back into protected forests to enhance sustainable forest management and livelihoods using insights emerging from a co-management project in Malawi. It uses mixed socia...
- Land tenure and fast-tracking REDD+: time to reframe the debate?
- A. Bolin; L. Lawrence; M. Leggett / Global Canopy Programme, 2013
- This paper argues that legal reform of land tenure will not take place fast enough to enable developing countries to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation through REDD+. It highlights that a global agreemen...
- Comprehensive report detailing multi-sector trade opportunities and enabling conditions in the transition to a green economy
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2013
- Prepared by the Trade, Policy and Planning Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this report is a key component of the Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project (GE-TOP). The aim of GE-TOP is to identify opportu...
- Case studies exploring climate change impacts on indigenous peoples in Namibia and their adaptation strategies
- U. Dieckmann; W. Odendaal; J. Tarr; A. Schreij / Legal Assistance Centre, 2013
- Through two participatory case studies, this paper examines the impact of climate change on the indigenous peoples of Namibia. The objectives of the case studies are three-fold: to document how the indigenous peoples are affected by c...
- From manual to mechanical harvesting: reducing environmental impacts and increasing cogeneration potential
- P. Ninô de Carvalho (ed) / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
- The pre-harvest burning of sugarcane leaves is a common practice that enables manual pickers to collect the crop quickly, suffering less personal injury. The burning process, however, has negative impacts on the environment, on human ...
- Envisioning the future and learning from the past: adapting to a changing environment in northern Mali
- M. Brockhaus; H. Djoudi (ed); B. Locatelli (ed) / Elsevier, 2013
- In West Africa, rural livelihoods that dependon natural resources develop coping and adapting strategies to face climate variability or change, and economic or political changes. The former Lake Faguibine in northern Mali has experien...
- National REDD+ Strategy Development and Implementation Process in Tanzania. Mid Term Review. Final Report
- 2013
- The Norwegian Government funded REDD+ project portfolio in Tanzania is creating significant positive results across Tanzania. Along with the research project on climate change and a selection of pilot projects, the REDD+ Policy Projec...
- 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)
- ...
- 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
