Biodiversity
- 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...
- 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.
- 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
