Protected areas
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- How are conservation policies shaped by neoliberalism?: a collection of critical essays
- ( J. Igoe;D. Brockington / Conservation and Society , 2008)
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The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broa...
What policy approaches could minimise the impact of other sectors on forest biodiversity?
- ( I. Thompson;T. Christophersen / Convention on Biological Diversity , 2008)
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The pressures from sectors such as agriculture, mining, or energy on forest biodiversity require cross-sectoral approaches for the conservation and sustainable management of forests. This tool...
- How should Compensation Ecosystem Services be implemented?
- ( R. Wenger;C. Rogger;S. Wymann von Dach / InfoResources , 2004)
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This document looks at the use of Compensation Ecosystem Services (CES) as a potential catalyst for ecosystem conservation and poverty alleviation. It aims to improve understanding of the concept a...
- Assessing the goods and services of England’s major terrestrial ecosystems
- ( R. Haines-Young;M. Potschin / Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK , 2007)
- This paper reviews the key aspects of the Ecosystem Approach, and in particular, it explores how the approach can be used to identify and assess the goods and services associated with England’s ...
- How can development respond to land cover change in sub-Saharan Africa?
- ( H. Eva;A. Brink;D. Simonetti / European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability , 2006)
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Over the last 25 years civil disturbances, drought, population increases and global market pressures have all contributed in direct and indirect ways to a modification of Sub saharan African&n...
- Social nature conservation practice in impoverished urban areas
- ( S. Hill, / Cape Flats Nature , 2006)
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This booklet discusses the work being done by Cape Flats Nature to build a pioneering partnership that tests, experiments and develops an alternative, social nature conservation practice in impover...
- How should we value biodiversity?
- ( Convention on Biological Diversity , 2007)
- Most of the benefits we derive from biologically diverse ecosystems are not traded on markets and thus do not bear a price tag, making it difficult to make informed choices about their conservation an...
- Does wildlife conservation work against the interests of local people?
- ( A. Skonhoft / Norwegian University of Science and Technology , 2006)
- This article has presented modelling approaches for wildlife and species conservation with a special emphasis on large mammals, in a developing country context, and with special reference to sub-Sahar...
- Addressing local people's rights in a tree-planting project
- ( C. Lang; T. Byakola / World Rainforest Movement , 2006)
- This report documents human rights abuses at Mount Elgon National Park in east Uganda, where a Dutch foundation plants trees for the purpose of carbon offsetting. The report attests that villagers liv...
- Payment for environmental services approaches to conservation in Vietnam
- ( Dung The Bui; Bich Ngoc Hong / IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia , 2006)
- This study looks at whether Vietnam could adopt the Payment for Environmental Services (PES) approach as part of its national conservation strategy. Using a pilot study in the country’s uplands, it i...
