Biodiversity
- Maximising climate change resilience, adaptation and mitigation through locating new protected areas
- J. Ervin (ed) / Taylor and Francis Group, 2011
- Though protected areas have increased considerably over the last 130 years, there are several troubling trends, including national and regional disparities, ecological gaps, a decline in the growth of new protected areas, and problems...
- Value chains in the context of geographical indications
- J.L. Guerra / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2010
- Geographical indications (GIs) have been a neglected area in the various fora addressing biodiversity and intellectual property. This policy brief focuses on basic GI concepts and the overall conclusion of the overview of over 30 GI c...
- World Intellectual Property Organization deliberations on disclosure requirements should be perceived as complementary to WTO outcomes
- D. Vivas-Eugui / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012
- The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) committee on intellectual property and genetic resources (IGC) was created in 2000. This report argues that the IGC has an historic opportunity to contribute towards providing meanin...
- ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins
- The ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins is devoted entirely to research on the tropical forest margins. ASB, which was founded as Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn in 1994, is currently focussed on reducing deforestation and emissions from land use change, including forestry and agriculture, while ensuring viable livelihoods and enhancing social and environmental co-benefits.The partnersh...
- The impacts of and efforts to address climate change in the fragile ecosystem of Sundarbans
- A. Danda (ed) / WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2010
- The eco-region of Sundarbans is unique and fragile because it is one of the most extensive mangrove forests in the world. This report describes the Sundarbans region and the impacts of climate change using evidence from the people who...
- Managing wildlife and human interactions in India
- J. Linnell (ed); J. Thomassen (ed); K. Jones (ed) / Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 2011
- Reports on a project which sought to understand the dynamics of wildlife human interactions in India and Norway (in a sample of multiuse landscapes) and to develop mechanisms of coexistence suitable to the countries. The project focus...
- Strengthen glacial research and modeling of glaciers to avoid floods and droughts
- B. P. Kaltenborn (ed); C. Nellemann (ed); I. I. Vistnes (ed) / Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2010
- Climate change is causing significant mass loss of glaciers in high mountains worldwide. This report calls for accelerating research, monitoring and modeling of glaciers, snow and their role in water supplies. Although gl...
- Biodiversity leads to food security: the case of Bangladesh
- M.A. Baten / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2010
- This research paper explains the relationship between food production and agricultural biodiversity, and analyses the impact of indiscriminate loss of agricultural biodiversity on food security. Bangladesh has been sufferin...
- What can be done to protect bioversity from the effects of climate change?
- H. Gitay (ed); A. Suarez (ed); D. J. Dokken (ed) / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2002
- With the current rate of biodiversity loss greater than the natural background rate of extinction, a critical question addressed by this technical paper is ‘how much might climate change (natural or human induced) enhance or inh...
- Current Conservation
- Current Conservation is published by an informal alliance of natural and social scientists to promote interdisciplinary research in conservation and to foster communication among scientists, resource managers, educators and policy makers. Current Conservation is an open access journal, published and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
- Value chains in the context of geographical indications
- J.L. Guerra / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2010
- Geographical indications (GIs) have been a neglected area in the various fora addressing biodiversity and intellectual property. This policy brief focuses on basic GI concepts and the overall conclusion of the overview of over 30 GI c...
- World Intellectual Property Organization deliberations on disclosure requirements should be perceived as complementary to WTO outcomes
- D. Vivas-Eugui / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012
- The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) committee on intellectual property and genetic resources (IGC) was created in 2000. This report argues that the IGC has an historic opportunity to contribute towards providing meanin...
- The impacts of and efforts to address climate change in the fragile ecosystem of Sundarbans
- A. Danda (ed) / WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2010
- The eco-region of Sundarbans is unique and fragile because it is one of the most extensive mangrove forests in the world. This report describes the Sundarbans region and the impacts of climate change using evidence from the people who...
- Managing wildlife and human interactions in India
- J. Linnell (ed); J. Thomassen (ed); K. Jones (ed) / Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 2011
- Reports on a project which sought to understand the dynamics of wildlife human interactions in India and Norway (in a sample of multiuse landscapes) and to develop mechanisms of coexistence suitable to the countries. The project focus...
- Strengthen glacial research and modeling of glaciers to avoid floods and droughts
- B. P. Kaltenborn (ed); C. Nellemann (ed); I. I. Vistnes (ed) / Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2010
- Climate change is causing significant mass loss of glaciers in high mountains worldwide. This report calls for accelerating research, monitoring and modeling of glaciers, snow and their role in water supplies. Although gl...
- Biodiversity leads to food security: the case of Bangladesh
- M.A. Baten / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2010
- This research paper explains the relationship between food production and agricultural biodiversity, and analyses the impact of indiscriminate loss of agricultural biodiversity on food security. Bangladesh has been sufferin...
- What can be done to protect bioversity from the effects of climate change?
- H. Gitay (ed); A. Suarez (ed); D. J. Dokken (ed) / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2002
- With the current rate of biodiversity loss greater than the natural background rate of extinction, a critical question addressed by this technical paper is ‘how much might climate change (natural or human induced) enhance or inh...
- The conflict between conservation and redistribution of land in Namaqua, South Africa
- T.A. Benjaminsen; H. Svarstad / Current Conservation, 2009
- This article summarises research carried out in Namaqualand in South Africa that identifies the discrepancies between rhetoric and practices in conservation. The author points at an on-going conflict between conservation and redistrib...
- 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...
- Implications of wild food use for conservation and development in Democratic Republic of Congo
- E. de Merode; K. Homewood; G. Cowlishaw / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- Wild foods including bushmeat have long been recognised as important famine foods underpinning coping strategies for poor people. Yet there is mounting pressure from conservation agencies to limit the extraction of wild resources, par...
- Cape Flats Nature
- Cape Flats Nature is a people-centred conservation partnership based in Cape Town.
- BirdLife International
- BirdLife International is a global Partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.
- International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation (IPIECA)
- IPIECA, the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association is a voluntary non-profit organisation whose membership includes both petroleum companies and associations at the national, regional or international levels. Separate working groups within IPIECA address global environmental and social issues related to the petroleum industry: oil spill preparedness and response,...
- Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, South Africa
- Department of Environment and Tourism, S.A.
- Law Environment and Development Journal
- The Law, Environment and Development Journal (LEAD Journal) is a peer-reviewed academic publication based in New Delhi and London and jointly managed by the School of Law of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) – University of London and the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC).
- Conservation and Society
- Conservation and Society is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary open access journal dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of conservation. The journal draws on both natural and social sciences and covers basic and applied research in areas including but not restricted to political ecology, human-wildlife conflicts, decentralised conservation, conservation policy, ecosystem structur...
- Land Degradation and Development
- Online journal focussing on land degradation issues
- Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID
- Maps and environmental graphics library
- Environmental Law Institute
- Promoting improved environmental governance
- International NGO/CSO Planning Committee (IPC)
- Global network of NGOs/CSOs concerned with food sovereignty issues
