Natural resource management
- Why biomass fuel substitution has been unsuccessful, and how to increase its uptake
- Department for International Development, UK, 2003
- This paper reports on a project to determine the full livelihood and poverty impacts of fuel substitution. The paper makes recommendations to policy makers on how negative impacts can be mitigated. The project focused on tradit...
- Scaling up and communication in natural resources
- Eldis Document Store, 2002
- This paper is a synthesis of two previous research reports that explored scaling up and communication in natural resources (NR) research. The author describes recent increasing emphasis on these activities in development based NR rese...
- How does CITES and other wildlife trade regulation affect rural livelihoods?
- D. Roe; S. Milledge; T Mulliken; J. Mremi; S. Mosha; M. Grieg-Gran / Traffic International, 2002
- This document discusses the importance of wildlife trade for many rural livelihoods and the impact that wildlife trade regulations has on them. The paper begins by outlining trade in wildlife which can occur both nationally and...
- How much can a community owned lodge contribute to the livelihoods of people living on a Protected Area border?
- H. Mzenda / Eldis Document Store, 2002
- This case study, of a community owned wildlife tourism lodge in the north West Province of South Africa, explores the benefits accruing to the communities on the border of the reserve from the venture. Taking a livelihoods anal...
- Case studies highlighting the links between environmental and livelihood security and international security.
- R. Matthew; M. Halle; J. Switzer / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2002
- This book developed from meetings between conservationists and those in the UK government concerned with security and conflict prevention. The book is based on the premise that environmental mismanagement and resource scarcity,...
- Are transformations of tropical peatland through fire beneficial or detrimental to local livelihoods?
- U. Chokkalingam; L. Tacconi; Y. Ruchiyat / Center for International Forestry Research, 2001
- The biodiversity and carbon sequestration value of tropical peatlands is damaged by logging, burning, drainage and other activities. In many cases this may also damage local livelihood benefits such as fisheries support. This paper, h...
- Is community based forestry the win-win solution for carbon sequestration and trading?
- J. Smith; S. Scherr / Future Harvest, 2002
- In preparation for the eighth session of the conference of the parties (COP8) to the Climate Change Convention, this report argues that businesses looking to buy carbon credits should do so by funding forests planted and managed by lo...
- Value of cross-border exchanges between Malawi and Mozambique
- M. Whiteside / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002
- Looks at cross-border livelihood interactions between these two areas, and possible development policy synergies. Southern Malawi has one of the most highly populated areas in southern Africa, with high pressure on land and natural re...
- Five sustainable livelihoods & agriculture case studies
- M. Adato; R. Meinzen-Dick / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- The paper provides an overview of the sustainable livelihoods approach, how it can be applied to agricultural research, and describes detailed methods and results from five case studies: modern rice varieties in Bangla...
- Poverty, growth and environment linkages
- Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2002
- Focuses on ways to reduce poverty and sustain growth through sound and equitable environmental management. It seeks to draw out the links between poverty and the environment, and to demonstrate that sound and equitable environmental m...
- Why biomass fuel substitution has been unsuccessful, and how to increase its uptake
- Department for International Development, UK, 2003
- This paper reports on a project to determine the full livelihood and poverty impacts of fuel substitution. The paper makes recommendations to policy makers on how negative impacts can be mitigated. The project focused on tradit...
- Scaling up and communication in natural resources
- Eldis Document Store, 2002
- This paper is a synthesis of two previous research reports that explored scaling up and communication in natural resources (NR) research. The author describes recent increasing emphasis on these activities in development based NR rese...
- How does CITES and other wildlife trade regulation affect rural livelihoods?
- D. Roe; S. Milledge; T Mulliken; J. Mremi; S. Mosha; M. Grieg-Gran / Traffic International, 2002
- This document discusses the importance of wildlife trade for many rural livelihoods and the impact that wildlife trade regulations has on them. The paper begins by outlining trade in wildlife which can occur both nationally and...
- How much can a community owned lodge contribute to the livelihoods of people living on a Protected Area border?
- H. Mzenda / Eldis Document Store, 2002
- This case study, of a community owned wildlife tourism lodge in the north West Province of South Africa, explores the benefits accruing to the communities on the border of the reserve from the venture. Taking a livelihoods anal...
- Case studies highlighting the links between environmental and livelihood security and international security.
- R. Matthew; M. Halle; J. Switzer / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2002
- This book developed from meetings between conservationists and those in the UK government concerned with security and conflict prevention. The book is based on the premise that environmental mismanagement and resource scarcity,...
- Are transformations of tropical peatland through fire beneficial or detrimental to local livelihoods?
- U. Chokkalingam; L. Tacconi; Y. Ruchiyat / Center for International Forestry Research, 2001
- The biodiversity and carbon sequestration value of tropical peatlands is damaged by logging, burning, drainage and other activities. In many cases this may also damage local livelihood benefits such as fisheries support. This paper, h...
- Is community based forestry the win-win solution for carbon sequestration and trading?
- J. Smith; S. Scherr / Future Harvest, 2002
- In preparation for the eighth session of the conference of the parties (COP8) to the Climate Change Convention, this report argues that businesses looking to buy carbon credits should do so by funding forests planted and managed by lo...
- Value of cross-border exchanges between Malawi and Mozambique
- M. Whiteside / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002
- Looks at cross-border livelihood interactions between these two areas, and possible development policy synergies. Southern Malawi has one of the most highly populated areas in southern Africa, with high pressure on land and natural re...
- Five sustainable livelihoods & agriculture case studies
- M. Adato; R. Meinzen-Dick / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- The paper provides an overview of the sustainable livelihoods approach, how it can be applied to agricultural research, and describes detailed methods and results from five case studies: modern rice varieties in Bangla...
- Poverty, growth and environment linkages
- Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2002
- Focuses on ways to reduce poverty and sustain growth through sound and equitable environmental management. It seeks to draw out the links between poverty and the environment, and to demonstrate that sound and equitable environmental m...
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