Biodiversity
- Collaborative approaches to climate change adaptation
- World Conservation Union, 2006
- This report argues that climate change requires an adaptive management style that focuses on transparency and learning. Such an approach needs to target stakeholders in decision making and implementation at the level of landscapes and...
- Combating invasive alien species in Southeast Asia
- A. T. Gutiérrez; J. K. Reaser / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2006
- Recognising the significant impacts that IAS have on the environment, economy, and human health, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in cooperation with the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP), sponsored a prel...
- The impact of ecosystem changes on human health and well-being
- Knowledge Economy Node, Development Gateway, 2005
- This report synthesises the findings from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment’s (MA) global and sub-global assessments of how ecosystems changes do, or could, affect human health and well-being. Some findings and policy im...
- Assessing the trade-off between poverty alleviation and wildlife conservation in Maasailand
- K. Cochrane; D. Nkedianye; E. Partoip; S. Sumare; S. Kiruswa / Department for International Development, UK, 2005
- Working in collaboration with the Belgian funded project ‘Better policy and Management Option for Pastoral Lands: Assessing Trade off between poverty alleviation and wildlife conservation (Reto-o-Reto)’, this project aims to...
- Insights into the processes and impacts of land degradation
- S. P. J. Batterbury; A. J. Bebbington / Land Degradation and Development, 1999
- This paper outlines a framework for understanding the complexity of land degradation processes, their impacts, and offers insights into their remediation. The authors suggest that possible options for increasing the relevance of envir...
- Incorporating special and differential treatment and environmentally preferable products of export into future WTO negotiations
- S. Singh / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005
- In analysing possible approaches for ensuring balanced trade gains in the ongoing WTO negotiations, the author suggests that a combination of special and differential treatment (SDT) provisions and environmentally preferable products ...
- FSC certification : environmentally inappropriate, socially damaging and economically unviable?
- R. Carrere / World Rainforest Movement, 2006
- In Uruguay there is growing opposition to the large-scale monoculture plantations of Eucalyptus and Pine. This has partly originated from years of campaigning by local environmental, social and trade union organisations, who have been...
- Addressing the need for sustainable and equitable water management
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2006
- Many countries are still not on track to reach the water-related targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – threatening their security, development and environmental sustainability. This report, the main outcome of seco...
- Urban water scarcity: better economic gains through sectoral water allocation
- F. Molle; J. Berkoff / International Water Management Institute, 2006
- Making better use of the water we have- instead of increasing and diversifying supply, is proposed by many as a way of mitigating water-scarcity problems. Moving water away from agriculture to uses with higher economic value is widely...
- Putting a moratorium on the commercial cultivation of transgenic crops in India
- K. Das / Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006
- In assessing the policy stance taking by the government of India on the issue of GM technology, the author concludes that there is not sufficient economic justification for the government to promote the use of transgenic corps. This i...
- Experience with biodiversity in cooperation projects
- World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
- Capturing the experiences and opinions of people working on biodiversity issues in some 35 EU partner countries. The report aims to ensure that development cooperation projects are effective and sustainable and take full account of en...
- The links between biodiversity and poverty
- World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
- Poor people, especially those living in areas with low agricultural productivity, depend heavily and directly on genetic, species and ecosystem biodiversity to support their livelihoods. This support takes the shape of contributions t...
- Incentive measures for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
- World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
- Reviews the causes of biodiversity loss and suggests policy responses. These include: Market failures leading to unsustainable patterns of production and consumption: respond by addressing externalities (costs ofcommerc...
- Fusing agriculture and conservation
- S. Connor / The Independent and Independent on Sunday, 2001
- Details new report 'Common Ground, Common Future' aiming to promote 'ecoagriculture'; the unity of farming and conservation. The recommendations of the report are simple: if farmers can double or even treble food production on land th...
- IPR and the provision of short term policy development assistance for developing countries
- G. Tansey / Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project, MSU, 1999
- This discussion paper reviews the complexities and uncertainties surrounding the impact of the current multilateral Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) regime, on plants and animals, on plant variety protection systems, and on food se...
- IPR - assisting biodiversity, alleviation of food shortages, scientists and farmers? A selection of viewpoints.
- International Development Research Centre, 1994
- The purpose of this book is to identify key IPR issues and choices and to describe the broader context within which decisions are being made. The full report contains 28 consensus recommendations and a presents a selection of argument...
- Indicators of the condition of the world's agroecosystems.
- World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2000
- This study analyses quantitative and qualitative information and develops selected indicators of the condition of the world's agroecosystems. It assesses condition in terms of the delivery of a number of key goods and services valued ...
- Protected Areas: the concept and case studies
- U. Grant; S. Kratli; T. Machiba; C. Magnussen; G. Rigueros Saavedra; I. Rodriguez / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
- Historical development of the concept of protected areas and biodiversity, plus short case studies of Cameroon, Colombia, Spain and Zimbabwe.
- Is current thinking any improvement on the traditional approach? A critical consideration of the new assumptions.
- T. Enters; J. Anderson / Unasylva, FAO, 1999
- This article challenges devolution and populist approaches to biodiversity conservation and forest management by examining several of the main assumptions on which they are based. The concept of partnership in conservation is b...
- Integrating development and environmental protection: can ecodevelopment work?
- R. Badola / Unasylva, FAO, 1999
- The author critically examines recent participatory ecodevelopment approaches to the management of Protected Areas in India. This article highlights weaknesses and offers recommendations for ways forward. Weaknesses of ecodevel...
- 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
