Biodiversity
- Active involvement of society in debating nanotechnology and its social and economic implications urged
- Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration formerly RAFI, 2004
- This report examines applications of nanotechnology to food and agriculture, which have the potential to revolutionise and further consolidate power over the global food supply. The report is the first in a series of ETC reports on th...
- Reforming policies to end extreme poverty and hunger
- Prabhu Pingali; Kostas Stamoulis; Randy Stringer / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- The world produces more than enough food for every person. Modern information systems can identify where food is needed and transport systems can move food to these places. Despite this, the number of undernourished people in developi...
- Including forest conservation in the Kyoto Protocol
- P. Moutinho; S. Santilli; S. Schwartzman; L. Rodrigues / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005
- This paper argues that though greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are the principal causes of global warming, tropical deforestation is responsible for 20 to 25 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions. ...
- Recommendations for enhancing access to environmental justice in Kenya
- P. Kameri-Mbote / International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2005
- This paper discusses recommendations for enhancing environmental justice in Kenya. Concern for the environment has increased over the years since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. Kenya has signed,...
- Who maintains agricultural diversity and what is the value of it?
- M. Smale; A. King / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005
- This set of six briefings sheds light on questions regarding who maintains diversity, where it is maintained, and how farmers value this diversity as societies and economies change. These briefs present syntheses and synopses of resea...
- How can employment generation be linked with other capabilities?
- E Delamonica; S. Mehrotra / WebEc World Wide Web Resources in Economics, 2006
- The central premise of this paper is that there is a strong synergy between economic, social and environmental interventions. Focusing development analysis and policy on merely increasing income and material wealth is misguided, as st...
- Engaging stakeholders for integrated "open ocean" biodiversity management
- M. Vierros; F. Douvere; S. Arico / Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2006
- This report describes an ecosystem approach for managing the often divergent interests of stakeholders in open-water resources, in order to better combat the steadily decreasing levels of marine biodiversity. Although various forms of...
- New legal frameworks for open-ocean conservation and management?
- K.M. Gjerde / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2006
- With the world’s continually dwindling ocean resources and ecosystem biodiversity, how can we improve the management and regulation of people’s ever-expanding footprint on the oceans? This report from a the United Nations En...
- A case for the independence of Western Sahara
- P. Leite / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2006
- This collection of articles looks at the role of natural resources in Western Sahara and outlines the framework for Western Sahara’s independence from Morocco. There is no doubt that the question of the natural resources o...
- Potential of using eminent domain for the acquisition of lands for wildlife conservation in Kenya
- N. Sifuna / Law Environment and Development Journal, 2006
- This paper critically examines the potential of using eminent domain (compulsory purchase ) for acquiring lands for protected area conservation and makes recommendations for reforms. Under Kenyan law, the provisioning for emine...
- Invasive species: economic solutions to an economic problem?
- C. Perrings; M. Williamson; E. B. Barbier; D. Delfino1; S. Dalmazzone; J. Shogren; P. Simmons; A. Watkinson / Conservation Ecology [journal], 2002
- Argues that the causes of the problem of invasive alien species are primarily economic and, as such, require economic solutions. Invasive alien species are of increasing concern for four reasons. First, introduct...
- Do protected areas really protect biodiversity?
- A. G. Bruner; R. E. Gullison; R. E. Rice; G. A. B. da Fonseca / Komodo National Park, Indonesia, 2001
- This report assesses the impacts of anthropogenic threats on 93 protected areas in 22 tropical countries to test the hypothesis that parks are an effective means to protect tropical biodiversity. Each park tested was over 5 years old ...
- Species protection, trade issues and development
- B. Dickson / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002
- Looks at how CITES measures have evolved over time and the growing interest in the use of restricted trade measures as a conservation tool. The report critically examines the effectiveness of CITES measures and looks at the extent to ...
- Rangeland management on the Tibetan Plateau: needs to respect a heterogeneous evironment
- C. Richard / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, 2000
- This paper initially highlights the general characteristics of rangelands and pastoral production systems of the Tibetan Plateau. The article finds that: given the realities of life in a heterogeneous and margina...
- Participatory approaches are crucial to the success of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor
- K. Miller; E. Chang; N. Johnson / World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2001
- WRI reports on the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor - an attempt to safeguard one of the world's biodiversity hotspots while meeting the social and economic needs of the region's people. The report finds that among people and institut...
- Opportunities and constraints resulting from the role of tropical forests in climate change
- Canadian Forestry Advisers Network, 2001
- This CFAN Forestry Issues paper gives an overview of global climate change, its causes, its impact on forests, and how forests can help to mitigate it. It concludes that forest-related interventions can have numerous positive s...
- The problems and solutions of climate change are fundamentally linked to biodiversity conservation
- World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998
- Highlighting the contention that climate change itself is a major threat to biodiversity this report argues that protecting biological diversity may, in fact, help mitigate other impacts of climate change. In this light the authors ex...
- Comparative look at plant variety protection measures under TRIPS, CBD, UPOVand some African countries interpretations.
- T Kongolo / GRAIN, 2001
- Examines the international protection of new varieties of plants, and outlines the difficulties developing countries in general, and African countries in particular, might encounter in the course of implementing these Conventions. ...
- Accumulated change in ecosystem vulnerability means small disturbances can cause catastophic shifts in state.
- M. Scheffer; S. Carpenter; J. A. Foley; C. Folke; B. Walker / Wageningen University, Netherlands, 2001
- Evidence suggests that major ecosystems can shift to alternative and contrasting stable states depending on environmental conditions. The authors propose a theoretical model for these shifts. This is based on the idea that as external...
- How to guide for decision makers on integrating biodiversity into development policy
- World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
- Reviews the importance of biodiversity for development and the causes of biodiversity loss, and lists key actions that need to be taken by policy makers, programme designers and coordinators, and project implementers to ensure the int...
- Trisanita
- Platform for international peer-reviewed journals focusing on sanitation published in Indonesia.
- 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...
- 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.
- Eldis Environment Resource Guide
- An Eldis resource guide on environmental issues
- Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources (ANSAB)
- Biodiversity in South Asia
- Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon
- SPNL aims at ensuring that the natural resources are used in a sustainable manner, by protecting nature, birds and the biodiversity of Lebanon and highlighting their values and linkages to human livelihoods. SPNL works in a cooperative manner to fulfill its mission statement, i.e., in partnership with government institutions, municipalities, local community, other NGOs, associates a...
- The Katoomba Group's Ecosystem Marketplace
- Information on markets and payment schemes for ecosystem services
- Bunda College of Agriculture
Provides training in food production, food security, conservation and natural resource management
- Global Environmental Facility Evaluation Office (GEF Evaluation Office)
- The GEF's independent evaluation office
- Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD)
- Nepalese NGO working on sustainable development
