- Fuelwood collection in Malawi and associated environmental issues
- C.B.L. Jumbe; A. Angelsen / Eldis Document Store, 2010
- In Malawi, biomass energy accounts for more than 90% of the total primary energy consumption, and forests contribute nearly 75% of the total biomass supply. This paper addresses two questions: what determines Malawian household's choi...
- Resettlement in Malawi is a process involving complex interaction
- P. Kishindo / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2011
- Malawi's Community Based Rural Land Development Project was conceived as an effort to alleviate rural poverty by making it possible for land-poor households to buy land where it was available within specific districts. This paper disc...
- International Water Management Institute research reports
- International Water Management Institute, 2011
- Research reports from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Farmer-based financing of operations in the Niger Valley irrigation schemes Bailout with white revolution or sink deeper?: groundwater...
- Norwegian contribution to clean energy solutions
- ECON Pöyry, 2011
- This study provides a mapping of Norwegian CSOs working on energy and development issues in developing countries and an overview assessment of how the CSOs fit with the priorities of the Norwegian Government’s Clean Energy for D...
- The rising importance of the BASIC countries in a changing world
- ECON Pöyry, 2011
- This study, commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Environment, aims to assess why and how the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China) are important for the global environment. The study shall also provide an overv...
- Forest use and protection in Malawi
- P. Nkwanda / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2008
- Forests in Malawi play an important role in both social and economic development of the country. Among the environmental services provided by forests is carbon sequestration. Carbon sequestration is the uptake and storage of carbon on...
- Norwegian support to Tanzanian traditional energy
- A.L. Cowi (ed); D. Hoystad (ed) / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2010
- The Government of Norway supported the Tanzania Traditional Energy Development and Environment Organisation (TaTEDO) programme ‘Integrated Modern Energy Services for Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction’ (IMESPORE...
- Introducing safeguards into the REDD process
- B. Steni; G.B. Indarto; M.T. Surya; Y. Indradi / Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2010
- The aim of climate change mitigation and adaptation programs are to protect all the Earth’s inhabitants from the serious threats posed by climate change. Safeguards ensure both mitigation and adaptation activities truly address ...
- Does land cover affect rainfall patterns in southern Africa?
- C.J.R. Williams; D.R. Kniveton 2011
- The paper presents an investigation on the influence of land cover changes on rainfall variability, and in particular daily rainfall extremes in southern Africa. It examines the effect of increasing the amount of vegetation over the m...
- Forest resource accounting for improved national income accounts of Malawi
- V. Kasulo; J. Luhanga / Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, Ethiopia, 2005
- This study contributes towards the development of Malawi’s first integrated economic and natural resource accounts by compiling forest accounts and integrating them into the national income accounts. The forest accounts have bee...
- Water politics and development cooperation
- Peter Mollinga / Springerlink, 2008
- The key challenge in the water sector is not a lack of water, knowledge, financial resources or technology. In general, it is the political sphere that determines if water problems are solved or not, if people get access to water or n...
- Can improved sanitation make children healthier?
- L Cameron / Young Lives, 2009
- Some 250,000 Ethiopian children die each year from poor sanitation, hygiene and water. Ethiopia has ambitious plans to ensure universal access to pit latrines in all rural areas by 2012. But will people use them? Will greater availabi...
- What might REDD+ at the national level look like?
- A. Angelsen (ed); M. Brockhaus; M. Kanninen / Center for International Forestry Research, 2009
- More than 40 countries are developing national REDD+ strategies and policies, and hundreds of REDD+ projects have been initiated across the tropics. This book wants to inform these national and local processes, by asking some basic qu...
- Implementing REDD in Tanzania and Uganda
- A. Vatn; P. Vedeld; J.G. Petursson / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
- This paper examines whether reduced emissions from forests – from deforestation and forest degradation (the REDD project) - should be included in a post-Kyoto agreement . It focuses on how REDD could be instituted at the na...
- Review of the Phase II proposal for Community Markets for Conservation Programme in Zambia
- S.W. Bie; E. Kuntashula; Lewis K. Mughogho / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of L, 2009
- This paper reviews the proposal for a Phase II of the Community Markets for Conservation Programme (COMACO) in Zambia. The programme is seen as a tool to offer poachers and charcoal burners incentives for abandoning illegal activities...
- Maintaining ocean ecosystems for reducing climate change
- C. Nellemann (ed); E. Corcoran; C. M. Duarte / Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2009
- While the reduction of emissions are currently at the center of climate change discussions, the critical role of the oceans and ocean ecosystems has been vastly overlooked. The objective of this report is to highlight the critical rol...
- How can the environment be protected during armed conflict?
- E.M. Mrema; C. Bruch; J. Diamond / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2009
- This report seeks to identify gaps and weaknesses in the current international legal framework for protecting the environment during armed conflict. It aims to understand how natural resources and the environment can be better pr...
- Better integrated management of water resources and regulation is needed to manage chronic water scarcity in this region
- K. Frenken (ed) / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
- This FAO report aims to provide an accurate status of rural water resources management, with a special focus on irrigation, highlighting the major changes that have occurred in the last decade. In each country, the paper fea...
- Managing Africa’s water in a changing climate
- Arid Lands Information Network, 2009
- Nearly one-third of all water-related disasters occur in Africa. The second issue of Joto Afrika considers the relationship between climate change, the greater incidence of extreme weather events, such as drought and flooding, and the...
- Urgent need for climate change adaptation measures in Arab countries
- M.K. Tolba (ed); N.W. Saab (ed) / Arab Forum for Environment and Development, 2009
- Although greenhouse gas emissions from the Arab world amount to 4.2% of global emissions, the impact of climate change on the fragile environment of the region and its people is expected to be immense. This report aims to provide info...
- Consgis
- Discussion list on biological conservation and GIS
- biodiv.news
- Discussion/articles on conservation biology. Includes the text of the Smithsonian Institution's Biological Conservation Newsletter (see separate entry for information on this).
- Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, UK (ITE)
- UK governmental agency, part of the National Environment Research Council (NERC), researching into all aspects of the UK terrestrial environment and its resources. Maintains a network of specialist research stations including the Environmental Information Centre (EIC), which aims to advance the use of computers for handling data/information in terrestrial ecology and to provide access to NERC data...
- Biology Service, USA Department of the Interior
- US Federal agency charged with creating an ecosystem inventory for the USA.
- Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)
- Information on 18 site-specific projects, aims to provide the environmental biology research community with the opportunity to utilise the sites for research projects. Projects are both short and long-term and focus on phenomena manifest at the sites. Sites are mostly in US but also include a forest site in Puerto Rico and sites in Antarctica. Also maintains an archive of datasets, searchable bibl...
- Gap Analysis Program
- WWW server with information on biodiversity in the USA, including datasets, maps and land ownership information.
- Land Use and Land Cover Change Project (LUCC)
- Research programme looking at the nature and impact of global land use and land cover changes, involving both natural and social sciences. Component of the IGBP (see separate entry). WWW site has information on the programme, outline of proposed science-research plan, supporting bibliography, contact addresses. There are separate WWW site for the South East Asian component of this programme, c...
- Greenpeace International
- International environmental pressure group
- Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB - Mabnet)
- UNESCO programme of research and training intended to develop the basis, with the natural and social sciences, for the rational use and conservation of biosphere resources and for the improvement of the global relationship between people and the environment. Current programme interests include: promotion of biosphere reserves; reconciliation of nature conservation and biological diversity with soc...
- European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC)
- ECNC provides research support for national and European policies related to nature conservation and researches the impact of policy on biological/landscape diversity. Coordinates a network of national conservation agencies, research centres and university departments. Information services include: (a) WWW server: Includes: information on the organisation; directory of European nature conserva...
