Natural resource management
- Gender and desertification: expanding roles for women to restore drylands
- This review examines the impact of desertification on women, their role in the management of natural resources and drylands, and the constraints they face. It presents project experience in addressing women as natural resource users and managers in dryland areas, highlights some of the approaches used to reach women more effectively, and provides recommendations for expanding women's roles in order to restore dryland areas.
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Is Africa on the right tracks for sustainable development?
- ( UN Economic Commission for Africa , 2008)
- This report aims to serve as an important medium for monitoring and assessing sustainable development in Africa. It promotes a balanced integration of the three pillars of sustainable development and ...
- Does aquaculture reduce poverty and promote sustainable development in the Philippines?
- ( X. Irz;J., R. Stevenson;A. Tanoy / id21 Natural Resources , 2008)
- The paper examines aquaculture in five coastal communities in the Philippines and analyses whether aquaculture, which is an important economic activity and source of income, reduces poverty and contri...
- Locally Managed Marine Areas- a community approach to marine conservation
- ( H Govan;W Aalbersberg;A Tawake;J Parks / Locally-Managed Marine Area Network , 2008)
- Throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific, coastal communities are experiencing dwindling supplies of marine resources. Locally-managed approaches to coastal protection and management have become prom...
- Poor people and ethnic minorities suffer from a loss of control over resources and a loss of culture
- ( J. Cornford;N. Matthews / Oxfam Australia , 2007)
- The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) framework, a programme for regional development by the Asian Development Bank, has brought about fast paced economic growth. However, poor people's livelihoods, cult...
- Towards a more holistic approach to managing natural resources
- ( S. Wertz-Kanounnikoff;D. Rojat / Agence française de développement , 2007)
- This publication provides a compilation of historical and recent developments in renewable natural resources governance. ...
- An overview of the relationship between corruption and natural resource management
- ( I. Kolstad;T. Søreide;A. Williams / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2008)
- Natural resources often provide fertile ground for corruption. Since a substantial number of partner countries in development cooperation are richly endowed with natural resources, these contexts pose...
- What role do different knowledge systems play in natural resource management in Nepal?
- ( H., R. Ojha;R., B. Chhetri;N., P. Timsina;K., P. Paudel / International Development Research Centre , 2007)
- The focus of the publication is to analyse and understand how different groups of social agents engage in the diverse knowledge systems operating in the natural resource sector in Nepal. It examines h...
- 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 approaches can help rehabilitate degraded land?
- ( New Agriculturalist , 2008)
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Across vast areas of the world, human activity has degraded once fertile and productive land. Deforestation, overgrazing, continuous farming and poor irrigation practices have affected almost 2 bil...
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...
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