Biodiversity
- Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
- Canadian industry association advising on CSR
- International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI)
- A worldwide partnership of researchers studying reefs and their conservation
- International Society for Reef Studies (ISRS)
- Research network for coral reef researchers worldwide.
- Marine Conservation Society (MCS)
- A UK based campaigning organisation for the conservation of marine species and habitats in the UK and worldwide
- Treemail
- An advisory company and publishing house that works on strategic issues in international development and remote sensing.
- Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Asia Virtual Resource Centre (CRBNMASIA VRC)
- Participatory resource mamanegement in Asia
- International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC)
- The International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) is an independent, non-profit research organisation established in 1995 to provide a forum for collaborative research between researchers in the North and South. Study programmes include: Biodiversity Climate Change Human Rights Intellectual Property Regional programme on East Africa The website includes detail...
- responsibletravel.com
- Site linking to ethical holidays and community based operators
- Rainforest Alliance
- Conservation organisation looking for practical solution to rainforest destruction
- International Hotels Environmental Initiative (IHEI)
- Organisation promoting the benefits of environmental and social responsibility to hoteliers.
- Biodiversity and business in Africa
- E. Nuesiri / Pambazuka, 2004
- This paper discuses issues surrounding biodiversity and business within Africa, with particular reference to Royal Dutch/Shell’s operations in Gabbon. Highlights of the paper include: scientist estimate that...
- Privatisation of water and biodiversity: what impacts are felt by the poor?
- Friends of the Earth International, 2005
- This report, published by Friends of the Earth, discusses the impacts of privatisation of water supply and biodiversity on the poor throughout the world, especially women. This publication documents 34 cases describing what happens wh...
- How the major religions of the world view environmentalism
- M. Palmer; V. Finlay / World Bank, 2003
- This book explores the ecological worldviews of eleven major world religions, and considers how these can help shape effective environmental policy. It discusses how religions can work with environment- and development-focused organis...
- An assessment of biodiversity and status of forests, Indonesia
- S. Rhee; D. Kitchener; T. Brown / International Resources Group, 2004
- This report provides an assessment of the status of forests and biological diversity in Indonesia. It provides an analysis of actions necessary in Indonesia to achieve conservation and sustainable management of tropical forests, as we...
- Biodiversity protection in Papua New Guinea
- P. Daniel; C. Margules; R. Walker / Australian Museum, 2004
- This paper reports on a rapid biodiversity assessment project that identified candidate areas for biodiversity protection in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It provides a framework for moving towards a country-wide conservation goal, while at...
- What are the impacts of dams on freshwater ecosystems?
- WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2004
- This report analyses the construction and planning of dams on a river basin scale, examining the risks of dams to freshwater ecosystems. It identifies 21 river basins at severe risk of ecological degradation as they have six or more d...
- Biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes
- S. Pagiola; P. Agostini; J. Gobbi / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004
- This paper describes the contract mechanism developed for the Regional Integrated Silvopastoral Ecosystem Management Project (RISEMP). The project is testing the use of the payment-for-service mechanism to encourage the adoption of si...
- Approaches to community based protected area management
- G. Feyerabend; A. Kothari; G. Oviedo / World Conservation Union, 2004
- This guide explores the protected area approaches and models that approach conservation as fully compatible with human communities. It draws on recent experience and best practice from around the world, as well as from reflections and...
- International governance of access and benefit sharing
- S. Louafi; J. Morin / Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) / Institute for Sustainab, 2004
- This paper analyses the extent to which greater involvement by users makes it possible to enlarge the discussion on international governance of access and benefit sharing. The paper explores three areas where this taking on of respons...
- Inter-linkages approach for wetland management, South America
- United Nations University, 2004
- This report discusses the so called inter-linkages approach for wetland management, as to enable the creation of a regional framework for the management of the Pantanal wetland in south America. The Pantanal wetland, spread between Br...
- United Nations [UN] Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
- The Conference resulted in the signature of a number of major documents: the Convention on Biological Diversity; Framework Convention on Climate Change; Agreement on Forest Principles; Rio Declaration (see separate entries for information on these and the institutions set up to manage them) and Agenda 21. Follow up actions to the conference are managed by the UN Commission on Sustainable Developm...
- World Resources Institute, Washington DC (WRI)
- WRI is a research and policy institute promoting the responsible use of natural resources through the generation of accurate information on global resources and environmental conditions, the analysis of emerging issues and the development of policy responses. Information services include: (a) World Resources database: IBM-PC disc of statistics taken from the annual publication "World resources...
- Bioline
- Bioline Publications is an online bibliographic service, focusing on microbiology, biotechnology, biodiversity, bioinformatics, biosafety and biopolicy. The service is provided by Bioline Publications in association with the Base de Dados Tropical (BDT), Brazil. It incorporates commercial and not-for-profit journals, as well as reports, newsletters, conference proceedings and books. Accessible via...
- Life Sciences Collection
- Bibliographical database on the life sciences and biosciences, compiled from a number of printed abstracts journals, including: Ecology Abstracts; Animal Behaviour Abstracts; Biotechnology Abstracts. From 1978 to date. Available on Datastar, STN. Also on CDROM (from Silverplatter)
- UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
- Collection of worldwide biodiversity data
- LTSN UK Centre for Bioscience
- web based teaching resources for biology
- Biotech
- Discussion list on biotechnology, covering software/hardware issues, announcements, submission of bulletins, exchange of ideas and data.
- GRAIN
- Promotes action against the erosion of agricultural biodiversity
- Ebcbbul
- EBCB BULletin board, a facet of the European Bank of Computer Programs in Biotechnology (EBCB). EBCB is a non-profit organisation mainly funded by the European Community (EC). The main goal of EBCB is to stimulate and facilitate the use of computers in biotechnological training and research in Europe. EBCBBUL will not only promote user/user communication, but will also provide users with up to dat...
- unu.zeri.ibs
- Discussion list on integrated bio-systems: "the integrated use of biological technologies in aquaculture, agriculture, industry, forestry and animal husbandry". Sponsored by the Zero Emissions Research Initiatives (ZERI) project of the United Nations University and the Ecotechnology Network (Ecotec). More Zeri list available by sending message lists to listproc@caren.net
