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.
Latest Additions
- Maintaining ocean ecosystems for reducing climate change
- ( C. Nellemann (ed);E. Corcoran;C. M. Duarte / Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID , 2009)
- While the reduction of emissions are currently at the center of climate change discussions, the critical role of the oceans and ocean ecosystems has been vastly overlooked. The objective of this repor...
- How can the environment be protected during armed conflict?
- ( E.M. Mrema;C. Bruch;J. Diamond / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2009)
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This report seeks to identify gaps and weaknesses in the current international legal framework for protecting the environment during armed conflict. It aims to understand how natural resources...
- Better integrated management of water resources and regulation is needed to manage chronic water scarcity in this region
- ( K. Frenken (ed) / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009)
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This FAO report aims to provide an accurate status of rural water resources management, with a special focus on irrigation, highlighting the major changes that have occurred in the last d...
- Urgent need for climate change adaptation measures in Arab countries
- ( M.K. Tolba (ed);N.W. Saab (ed) / Arab Forum for Environment and Development , 2009)
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Although greenhouse gas emissions from the Arab world amount to 4.2% of global emissions, the impact of climate change on the fragile environment of the region and its people is expected to be imme...
Improving the ability of small-scale fisheries in the developing world
- ( L. Evans;N. Andrew / The WorldFish Center , 2009)
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Diagnosis and adaptive management can help improve the ability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) in the developing world. This paper presents a framework for diagnosis and adaptive management and disc...
- The integration of environmental, social and governance issues into institutional investment
- ( S. Waygood (ed);B. Bacani (ed);P. Hilton (ed) / United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative , 2009)
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This report is about identifying future challenges within the financial system in order to reduce further crises like the Natural Resources Crisis. The authors integrate environmental, social and g...
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...
- Survival in an unplanned urban fishing wetland in Tanzania
- ( M. Victor;A. Makalle;N. Ngware / Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania , 2008)
- This report is a case study of Bonde la Mpunga, a wetland in Dar es Salaam which was formerly used for rice growing. It is an area abundant in natural resources with fishing being the main economic ac...
- Environmental goods collection and children’s schooling: evidence from Kenya
- ( S. Wagura;W. Nyangena / Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2009)
- This study examines the link between environmental goods collection and children's schooling in Kenya. It proposes that, as resources becomes more scarce, households will invest more time in coll...
- Can natural resources be managed effectively by bylaws in Western Africa?
- ( K. Alinon (ed);A. Kalinganire (ed) / CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action , 2008)
- This paper discusses the historical changes in power delegation from central origins to secondary institutions. The analysis covers the rise of bylaws across the Western African countries and links th...
