Biodiversity
- 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...
- Reforming wildlife governance through non-governmental actors
- U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2009
- This brief looks at the role corruption plays in structuring wildlife governance systems in Africa by comparing the differing governance structures which have elicited variant economic and ecological outcomes. Wildlife is an important...
- Home gardens and biodiversity in Oaxaca, Mexico
- M. Aguilar-Støen; S.R. Moe; S.L. Camargo-Ricalde / Springerlink, 2009
- The home garden is an integral part of smallholders’ production strategies. This paper investigates how home gardens are integrated into local farming practices and how these influence biodiversity in Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca,...
- Are rights-based approaches the way forward for conservation?
- J. Campese (ed); T. Greiber (ed); T. Sunderland (ed); G. Oviedo (ed) / Center for International Forestry Research, 2009
- The links between the realisation of human rights and the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity are receiving increasing attention worldwide. Experience has demonstrated that exclusionary approaches to conservation can un...
- Biodiversity status within inland water ecosystem in Southern Africa
- W., R. Darwall (ed); K., G. Smith (ed); D. Tweddle (ed) / IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2009
- Biodiversity within inland water ecosystems in southern Africa is both highly diverse and of great regional importance to livelihoods and economies. However, development activities are not always compatible with the conservation of th...
- Is participatory conservation a solution for protected areas?
- T. Haller; M. Galvin / NCCR North South, 2009
- This book is a synthesis of papers on sustainable conservation in protected areas (PA). It presents a series of papers that provide comprehensive information on 13 PAs: 4 in Latin America, 5 in Africa, 3 in Asia and 1 in Switzerland. ...
- Socioeconomic literature on reef management in the Pacific Islands
- P. Cohen; A., D. Valemei; H. Govan / The WorldFish Center, 2008
- This paper presents a collection of literature that reports on various forms of reef area management practiced in the Pacific Islands. The collection provides an overview of impacts, influences and effectiveness of marine protec...
- The business case for high-biodiversity REDD projects
- J. Ebeling; J. Fehse / EcoSecurities, 2009
- This report explores whether there is a business case for high-biodiversity REDD projects and schemes and how such a business case could be created or promoted. It was commissioned by the Secretariat of the CBD as part of its efforts ...
- Reforming wildlife governance through non-governmental actors
- U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2009
- This brief looks at the role corruption plays in structuring wildlife governance systems in Africa by comparing the differing governance structures which have elicited variant economic and ecological outcomes. Wildlife is an important...
- Home gardens and biodiversity in Oaxaca, Mexico
- M. Aguilar-Støen; S.R. Moe; S.L. Camargo-Ricalde / Springerlink, 2009
- The home garden is an integral part of smallholders’ production strategies. This paper investigates how home gardens are integrated into local farming practices and how these influence biodiversity in Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca,...
- Are rights-based approaches the way forward for conservation?
- J. Campese (ed); T. Greiber (ed); T. Sunderland (ed); G. Oviedo (ed) / Center for International Forestry Research, 2009
- The links between the realisation of human rights and the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity are receiving increasing attention worldwide. Experience has demonstrated that exclusionary approaches to conservation can un...
- Biodiversity status within inland water ecosystem in Southern Africa
- W., R. Darwall (ed); K., G. Smith (ed); D. Tweddle (ed) / IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2009
- Biodiversity within inland water ecosystems in southern Africa is both highly diverse and of great regional importance to livelihoods and economies. However, development activities are not always compatible with the conservation of th...
- Is participatory conservation a solution for protected areas?
- T. Haller; M. Galvin / NCCR North South, 2009
- This book is a synthesis of papers on sustainable conservation in protected areas (PA). It presents a series of papers that provide comprehensive information on 13 PAs: 4 in Latin America, 5 in Africa, 3 in Asia and 1 in Switzerland. ...
- Socioeconomic literature on reef management in the Pacific Islands
- P. Cohen; A., D. Valemei; H. Govan / The WorldFish Center, 2008
- This paper presents a collection of literature that reports on various forms of reef area management practiced in the Pacific Islands. The collection provides an overview of impacts, influences and effectiveness of marine protec...
- The business case for high-biodiversity REDD projects
- J. Ebeling; J. Fehse / EcoSecurities, 2009
- This report explores whether there is a business case for high-biodiversity REDD projects and schemes and how such a business case could be created or promoted. It was commissioned by the Secretariat of the CBD as part of its efforts ...
- How to save the Indonesian orangutan
- C. Nellemann; L. Miles; B.P. Kaltenborn / UNEP Environmental Law Programme, 2007
- Orangutans survive only in the dwindling tropical rainforests of Borneo and northern Sumatra, being dependent on the forest for food and nesting sites. This document describes how orangutan populations are seriously affected when thei...
- Policies and methods that work for biodiversity and livelihoods
- K. Swiderska; D. Roe; L. Siegele; M. Grieg-Gran / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
- This report is an output of IIED’s collaborative research project “Policy that works for biodiversity and poverty reduction” and is based on a literature review and three country case studies (India, Peru and Tanzani...
- Strengthening linkages between bio-diversity management and decentralisation
- T. Clairs / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2006
- Both decentralisation and biodiversity management approaches suggest that biodiversity conservation initiatives could benefit from decentralised processes. Yet in practice UNDP’s Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded biodiver...
- MushWorld
- Mushroom growing resource
- Institute For Social And Environmental Transition (ISET)
- ISET is an international, non-profit institute with members and advisors in both the North and the South. Individuals and organisations involved in ISET all share a commitment to environmentally sustainable development and poverty alleviation. Within this commitment, ISET's mission is twofold: to improve understanding and elevate the level of dialogue as civil society attempts to respond to...
- Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP)
- Functioning as the interface between environmental science and policy-making, MNP provides assessments, recommendations and evaluations on a wide range of environment-related topics in close cooperation with international networks. Topics include sustainable development the quality of the urban and rural environment specific environmental problems such as climate change, biodiversity...
- Land Use Change, Impacts and Dynamics (LUCID)
- LUCID network, stimulating research on land use and global change in east Africa
- African Conservation Centre, Kenya (ACC)
- ACC is a non-governmental, regionally focused conservation organisation based in Nairobi, Kenya. It is dedicated to developing and implementing fresh approaches to the conservation of biological resources. The organisation partakes in the following activities: identifying the factors that create and maintain biological diversity understanding and applying to conservation the socio-econom...
- Wuppertal Institute
- The Wuppertal Institute explores and develops environmental policy guidelines, strategies, and instruments in order to promote sustainability at regional, national and international level. The main focus lies on ecology and its interrelation with economy and society. Special emphasis is put on decoupling the use of natural resources from the increase of wealth. Research at the Institute is based...
- Universidad de las Américas, Mexico (UDLA)
- Research and teaching university in Puebla, Mexico
- Applied Environmental Research Foundation, Pune, India (AERF)
- Research NGO concerned with conservation and sustainable development
- The Business Online
- News and commentary website on corporate business issues
- Centre for Applied Social Sciences/ Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (CASS/PLAAS)
- A joint inter-university research programme on community based natural resource managment
