Biodiversity
- 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...
- 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...
- Scientific literature review on the roles of forests and trees in social vulnerability to climate change
- E. Pramova; B. Locatelli; H. Djoudi; O. A. Somorin / Center for International Forestry Research, 2012
- Ecosystems provide crucial services to help people adapt to climate change. In conducting a review of the scientific literature, this paper shows how ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation can reduce social vulnerability to climate ...
- Understanding relationships between biodiversity, carbon, forests and people: the key to achieving REDD+ objectives. A global assessment report
- J. A. Parrotta (ed); C. Wildburger (ed); S. Mansourian (ed) / International Union of Forest Research Organizations, 2012
- This report seeks to better understand the relationships between biodiversity, carbon, forests and people, so as to support the achievement of REDD+ objectives. It summarises the latest scientific literature to make sense of the compl...
- World Bank report on the likely consequences of a four degrees Celsius rise in global temperatures
- World Bank, 2012
- This report, produced for the World Bank by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, attempts to describe what climate change impacts are likely to be felt in a ‘4°C world', i.e. a world where...
- Paper drawing recommendations for transboundary conservation from the Kangchenjunga region
- K. Phuntsho; N. Chettri; K. P. Oli / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, 2012
- This paper draws recommendations for transboundary and participatory biodiversity conservation from the Kangchenjunga Conservation Landscape Initiative. This 'biodiversity hotspot' - shared by Bhutan, India and Nepal - is one of seven...
- Prospects and Constraints of Madhupur National Park Management
- M Mia / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2012
- The study was conducted in Madhupur National Park (MNP), which is very well known for its characteristics as deciduous forest. This study examined the constraints of park management, causes of deforestation and prospects of Madhupur S...
- South Asian countries need to activate the Convention on Biological Diversity in their naturally-rich region
- P. Ranjan / South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2009
- The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was instituted as the international regime that would serve as the basis to negotiate issues of access and benefit sharing (ABS) related to genetic resources. In this context, the current p...
- Assessment of the most important environmental goals and objectives
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
- The fifth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) analyses the state, trends, outlook and responses to environmental change. It assesses progress towards meeting internationally agreed goals and identifies gaps in their achievement. ...
- Reefs at Risk Revisted
- L. Burke / World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2011
- Like the original Reefs at Risk, this study evaluates threats to coral reefs from a wide range of human activities. It also includes an assessment of climate-related threats to reefs. In addition, Reefs at Risk Revisited includes a gl...
- Resuscitating the Sundarbans: customary use of biodiversity & traditional culture practices in Bangladesh
- D.M.H. Kabir / Unnayan Onneshan, 2008
- The study is participatory work of different research wings, local communities of Sundarban. It explores the crisis already has created in mantaining biodiversity in sundarban due mismanagement and over exploitation of the resources t...
- Maximising climate change resilience, adaptation and mitigation through locating new protected areas
- J. Ervin (ed) / Taylor and Francis Group, 2011
- Though protected areas have increased considerably over the last 130 years, there are several troubling trends, including national and regional disparities, ecological gaps, a decline in the growth of new protected areas, and problems...
- 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
