Biodiversity
- Why should we conserve free-flowing rivers?
- WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006
- This report assesses the state of the world’s remaining free-flowing rivers and seeks to answer the question why we should maintain our last free-flowing rivers. Most of the world’s largest rivers are losing their connection...
- Is the top-down global response to bird flu devastating small farmers?
- GRAIN, 2006
- This report from GRAIN looks at the power politics behind this global response to avian flu and its consequences for the poor. It finds that the agencies of the United Nations at the forefront of the international response to the viru...
- Helping companies operating in emerging markets better understand their relationship to biodiversity issues
- International Finance Corporation, 2005
- Managing risk and securing corporate opportunities are cornerstones of business, but these can be obscured for many private sector companies when addressing biodiversity. Biodiversity is a broad term, subject to different definitions ...
- A new vision for protected area management and ways of putting back people into conservation
- M.P. Pimbert; J.N. Pretty / International Institute for Environment and Development, 1995
- The historically dominant ideology underpinning conservation has been that people are bad for natural resources. Policies and practice have, therefore, sought to exclude people and so discourage all forms of local participation in pro...
- A brief for policy makers on the successes of community resource management in Namibia
- P. Skyer; M. Saruchera / Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2004
- Highlights community conservancies in Namibia as a successful way of promoting natural resource management and supporting rural livelihoods. Community conservancy consists of members of neighbouring communities on communal land...
- How to integrate biodiversity conservation into existing management tools for mining companies
- J. Gardner; P. Mitchell / World Conservation Union, 2004
- The paper, prepared as background for an IUCN workshop, is designed to stimulate discussion and assist practitioners looking into the integration of biodiversity conservation into two existing management tools at the disposal of minin...
- Destructive fishing practices in Tanzania and the impact of marine protected areas
- P. Silva / Tanzania Online, 2006
- This paper is a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper focusing on the use of destructive fishing gear, which has been identified as one of the most critical issues being faced by the Marine Protective Area (MPAs) in Tanzania. Overa...
- Land usage, degradation and biodiversity in East Africa
- J. Maitima; R.S. Reid; L.N. Gachimbi; A. Majule; H. Lyarru; D. Pomere; S. Mugatha; S. Mathai; S. Mugisha / International Livestock Research Institute, 2004
- This paper is a regional synthesis highlighting the linkages between land usage, land degradation and biodiversity across East Africa identified from research done over a 30 year period. The effects of different land uses in East Afri...
- UK Donor's view to integrating enviroment into development activities
- Department for International Development, UK, 2006
- This paper outlines the UK Department For International Development's (DFID) strategic approach to environment and how it aims to integrate environmental considerations into it’s work with developing countries and other donors. ...
- Evaluating land policies in highland Ethiopia
- Stein Holden; Bekele Shiferaw; John Pender / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- People living in the rural highlands of Ethiopia suffer from land degradation, low agricultural productivity and poverty. Finding solutions to these connected problems requires policymakers to understand the potential impacts of diffe...
- The economics of international agreements for the protection of environmental and agricultural resources
- S. Barrett / FAO Hypermedia Collection on Desertification, 1995
- The purpose of this paper is to review the economics of international environmental agreements (IEAs) and draw Implications for the international issues that are relevant to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). ...
- Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will, how and when
- A.K. Gupta / Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999
- Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, activists...
- Forest maps: national maps on diversity and conservation status
- UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1999
- WCMC's data holdings on forests, their diversity and conservation status world wide come from a variety of national and international sources. These data have been compiled by the WCMC Forest Programme.
- Conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources (FAO)
- Abdou-Salam Ouédraogo / Forestry Department, FAO, 1997
- Significant forest genetic resources are being threatened as a result of tropical deforestation and loss of genetic resources. Yet, in several countries, worldwide concern about the depletion of tropical forests still needs to be tran...
- Global change and ecological complexity (GCTE)
- Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems, 1999
- Biodiversity Conservation and its Opponents
- R. Blench / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
- Arguments over biodiversity conservation continue to generate more heat than light. This paper reviews pro-conservation arguments, concluding that the main policy requirements are to improve the scientific basis of our understanding, ...
- Placing women's knowledge of biodiversity and genetic resource management in an international policy context.
- H. Zweifel / Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1997
- In the past few years research institutions and development organizations have 'discovered' the relevance of men farmers' indigenous knowledge of genetic resource management and, after some delay, that of women farmers as well. At the...
- Community based conservation
- M.C.J. Cruz / American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995
- This overview paper stresses what most of the authors believe: that in order to successfully manage biodiversity, local residents and resource users must be involved, and the people who are affected by conservation projects must be pa...
- Overview of the science of biodiversity and associated issues
- Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia, 1993
- Explains biodiversity and the three levels at which it is usually considered: genetic, species and ecosystem diversity. It also briefly discusses why biodiversity is important, especially the value of its components and diversity itse
- 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
