- Experience with biodiversity in cooperation projects
- World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
- Capturing the experiences and opinions of people working on biodiversity issues in some 35 EU partner countries. The report aims to ensure that development cooperation projects are effective and sustainable and take full account of en...
- The links between biodiversity and poverty
- World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
- Poor people, especially those living in areas with low agricultural productivity, depend heavily and directly on genetic, species and ecosystem biodiversity to support their livelihoods. This support takes the shape of contributions t...
- Incentive measures for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
- World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
- Reviews the causes of biodiversity loss and suggests policy responses. These include: Market failures leading to unsustainable patterns of production and consumption: respond by addressing externalities (costs ofcommerc...
- How does contract farming work and who benefits?
- P. Baumann / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- This paper reviews the experience of contract farming and outgrower schemes for five agricultural tree crops: cocoa, rubber, palm oil, coffee and tea. The primary objective of the paper is to draw lessons from this experience to infor...
- How sustainable livelihoods helps understand access by the poor to assets and entitlements
- P. Baumann; S. Sinha / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2001
- This paper examines how far Sustainable Livelihoods analysis helps in understanding the complex power relations influencing the rightful access by the poor to assets and entitlements. Paper asserts that these power relations a...
- World Bank sponsored oil transportation project is destructive to areas of biodiversity in Georgia
- M. Kochladze / BankWatch, 2001
- This article discusses the difficulty of transportating oil from the Caspian Sea oil reserves, to the international market. A primary transit route is through a highly sensitive ecosystem (Kolkhety Lowland) in the Georgian Black Sea C...
- Toolkit: analysing livelihoods at the local level
- Socioeconomic And Gender Analysis Programme, FAO, 1998
- The Field Level Handbookis written for field workers: extensionists, government and non-government field workers, private- and public-sector development consultants, community organisers and leaders of local groups and institutions.Ha...
- Participatory assessment in community forestry
- K. Schoonmaker Freudenberger / Forests, Trees and People Programme and Network, FAO - SLU, 1994
- Manual offers guidelines for using rapid appraisal methods to gather information on tenure and natural resource management. It translates the concepts elaborated in Community Forestry Note 5, rapid appraisal of tree and land tenure. T...
- Examining threats to the world's forests and the industry that depends on them
- Global Forest and Trade Network GFTN/WWF, 2000
- Report argues that it is in the industry's interests to demonstrate responsible management, and that this can be achieved through certification schemes such as the Forest Stewardship Council's. Report suggests that despite huge...
- The degradation discourse does not reflect locally experienced reality
- J. Fairhead; M. Leach / Seminar [Indian journal], 2000
- Examines the contrast between the formulation of problems in development policy, and the perspectives of villagers in Kissidougou (Guinea) in relationship to 'demonstrably' false ideas about environmental change. It appears that these...
- 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)
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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
