Biodiversity conservation
- Can general budget support be used to meet environmental objectives?
- General Budget Support (GBS) is an example of an increasingly important aid instrument that emphasises domestic commitment to achieve better environmental outcomes. This policy briefing from ODI looks at whether GBS can be used to help meet environmental objectives. Case studies of GBS are given for the cases of environmental mainstreaming in Mozambique and donor harmonisation in Ghana.
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- Managing wildlife and human interactions in India
- ( J. Linnell (ed);J. Thomassen (ed);K. Jones (ed) / Norwegian Institute for Nature Research , 2011)
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Reports on a project which sought to understand the dynamics of wildlife human interactions in India and Norway (in a sample of multiuse landscapes) and to develop mechanisms of coexistence suitabl...
- Strengthen glacial research and modeling of glaciers to avoid floods and droughts
- ( B. P. Kaltenborn (ed);C. Nellemann (ed);I. I. Vistnes (ed) / Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID , 2010)
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Climate change is causing significant mass loss of glaciers in high mountains worldwide. This report calls for accelerating research, monitoring and modeling of glaciers, snow and their role in wat...
- Biodiversity leads to food security: the case of Bangladesh
- ( M.A. Baten / Bangladesh Online Research Network , 2010)
- This research paper explains the relationship between food production and agricultural biodiversity, and analyses the impact of indiscriminate loss of agricultural biodiversity on food security....
- What can be done to protect bioversity from the effects of climate change?
- ( H. Gitay (ed);A. Suarez (ed);D. J. Dokken (ed) / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , 2002)
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With the current rate of biodiversity loss greater than the natural background rate of extinction, a critical question addressed by this technical paper is ‘how much might climate change (nat...
- The conflict between conservation and redistribution of land in Namaqua, South Africa
- ( T.A. Benjaminsen;H. Svarstad / Current Conservation , 2009)
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This article summarises research carried out in Namaqualand in South Africa that identifies the discrepancies between rhetoric and practices in conservation. The author points at an on-going confli...
- Review of the Phase II proposal for Community Markets for Conservation Programme in Zambia
- ( S.W. Bie;E. Kuntashula;Lewis K. Mughogho / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2009)
- This paper reviews the proposal for a Phase II of the Community Markets for Conservation Programme (COMACO) in Zambia. The programme is seen as a tool to offer poachers and charcoal burners incentives...
- Implications of wild food use for conservation and development in Democratic Republic of Congo
- ( E. de Merode;K. Homewood;G. Cowlishaw / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2003)
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Wild foods including bushmeat have long been recognised as important famine foods underpinning coping strategies for poor people. Yet there is mounting pressure from conservation agencies to limit ...
Reforming wildlife governance through non-governmental actors
- ( U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre , 2009)
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This brief looks at the role corruption plays in structuring wildlife governance systems in Africa by comparing the differing governance structures which have elicited variant economic and ecologic...
- Home gardens and biodiversity in Oaxaca, Mexico
- ( M. Aguilar-Støen;S.R. Moe;S.L. Camargo-Ricalde / Springerlink , 2009)
- The home garden is an integral part of smallholders’ production strategies. This paper investigates how home gardens are integrated into local farming practices and how these influence biodivers...
- Are rights-based approaches the way forward for conservation?
- ( J. Campese (ed);T. Greiber (ed);T. Sunderland (ed);G. Oviedo (ed) / Center for International Forestry Research , 2009)
- The links between the realisation of human rights and the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity are receiving increasing attention worldwide. Experience has demonstrated that exclusionary...
