conservation
- Biodiversity in south Asia
- Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of L, 2001
- This report documents the keynote presentations of the South Asian Participatory Biodiversity Conservation Forum in February 2001, Kathmandu, Nepal. The themes of the working papers include: participatory biodive...
- Local seed distribution systems in post-disaster Mozambique
- L.T. Traedal / LinKS Project: Gender, Biodiversity and Local Knowledge Systems for Food Security, FAO, 2004
- This article looks at seed flow in the post-flood situation experienced by Southern Mozambique in the year 2000. It looks at the local processes of seed acquisition based on the traditional values of help and solidarity. Too often see...
- Targeting environmental service payments to private land-owners, Costa Rica
- D.N. Barton; D. Faith; G. Rusch; J.O. Gjershaug; M. Castro; M. Vega; E. Vega / Norsk institutt for vannforskning / Norwegian Institute for Water Research, 2003
- This study demonstrates the use of TARGET trade-offs analysis for prioritising environmental service payments (so-called PSA or 'Pagos por Servicios Ambientales' in Spanish ) to private land-owners in the Osa Conservation Area (ACOSA)...
- Proposal to research local seed management systems in Tanzania
- LinKS Project: Gender, Biodiversity and Local Knowledge Systems for Food Security, FAO, 2004
- This research proposal is aimed at raising awareness of women’s and men’s knowledge related to use and management of the agricultural biological systems they depend on for food security. The research will be carried out in S...
- Knowledge networking and NGOs
- L.T. Soeftestad / Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2002
- The paper looks at the growing importance of knowledge networking (especially electronic networking), theoretical models of networks and their particular importance in the NGO sector. Using the experience of the Community-Based...
- Illegal hunting is related to land use in agriculture, Serengeti
- A. Borge Johannesen / Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2004
- This paper examines the factors which determine participation and effort in illegal hunting, in western Serengeti, Tanzania. It studies the impact on illegal hunting of the integrated conservation and development project, the Serenget...
- Can community property rights increase wildlife conservation?
- A. Borge Johannesen; A. Skonhoft / Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003
- This paper examines under what conditions a community based management system results in higher wildlife abundance and more conservation. It concludes that community property rights as well as other incentives are needed. The p...
- The causes of conflict within JFM: saving the wood from the trees in India
- P. Kashwan / Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2003
- Joint Forest Management (JFM) has been an important step for improving amangement and governance of forests in India. However, conflicts and conflict resolution arrangements in the JFM framework are one area where there is urgent need...
- Study on the benefits of bioprospecting
- S.S. Dhillion / Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2002
- This article discusses the issues surrounding bioprospecting, paying particular attention to its on conservation and development, through examining bioprospecting case studies in Tanzania, Norway, and Costa Rica. It provides backgroun...
- What are the benefits of wild or captive management of the vicuna?
- D. McNeill; G. Lichtenstein / BIOECON, 2003
- This paper examines the forces that have shaped policies concerning the management of the vicuna (a wild camelid that lives in the High Andes) in Argentina. It emphasises the various political and economic forces, and also ecological,...
- Biodiversity in south Asia
- Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of L, 2001
- This report documents the keynote presentations of the South Asian Participatory Biodiversity Conservation Forum in February 2001, Kathmandu, Nepal. The themes of the working papers include: participatory biodive...
- Local seed distribution systems in post-disaster Mozambique
- L.T. Traedal / LinKS Project: Gender, Biodiversity and Local Knowledge Systems for Food Security, FAO, 2004
- This article looks at seed flow in the post-flood situation experienced by Southern Mozambique in the year 2000. It looks at the local processes of seed acquisition based on the traditional values of help and solidarity. Too often see...
- Targeting environmental service payments to private land-owners, Costa Rica
- D.N. Barton; D. Faith; G. Rusch; J.O. Gjershaug; M. Castro; M. Vega; E. Vega / Norsk institutt for vannforskning / Norwegian Institute for Water Research, 2003
- This study demonstrates the use of TARGET trade-offs analysis for prioritising environmental service payments (so-called PSA or 'Pagos por Servicios Ambientales' in Spanish ) to private land-owners in the Osa Conservation Area (ACOSA)...
- Proposal to research local seed management systems in Tanzania
- LinKS Project: Gender, Biodiversity and Local Knowledge Systems for Food Security, FAO, 2004
- This research proposal is aimed at raising awareness of women’s and men’s knowledge related to use and management of the agricultural biological systems they depend on for food security. The research will be carried out in S...
- Knowledge networking and NGOs
- L.T. Soeftestad / Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2002
- The paper looks at the growing importance of knowledge networking (especially electronic networking), theoretical models of networks and their particular importance in the NGO sector. Using the experience of the Community-Based...
- Illegal hunting is related to land use in agriculture, Serengeti
- A. Borge Johannesen / Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2004
- This paper examines the factors which determine participation and effort in illegal hunting, in western Serengeti, Tanzania. It studies the impact on illegal hunting of the integrated conservation and development project, the Serenget...
- Can community property rights increase wildlife conservation?
- A. Borge Johannesen; A. Skonhoft / Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003
- This paper examines under what conditions a community based management system results in higher wildlife abundance and more conservation. It concludes that community property rights as well as other incentives are needed. The p...
- The causes of conflict within JFM: saving the wood from the trees in India
- P. Kashwan / Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2003
- Joint Forest Management (JFM) has been an important step for improving amangement and governance of forests in India. However, conflicts and conflict resolution arrangements in the JFM framework are one area where there is urgent need...
- Study on the benefits of bioprospecting
- S.S. Dhillion / Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2002
- This article discusses the issues surrounding bioprospecting, paying particular attention to its on conservation and development, through examining bioprospecting case studies in Tanzania, Norway, and Costa Rica. It provides backgroun...
- What are the benefits of wild or captive management of the vicuna?
- D. McNeill; G. Lichtenstein / BIOECON, 2003
- This paper examines the forces that have shaped policies concerning the management of the vicuna (a wild camelid that lives in the High Andes) in Argentina. It emphasises the various political and economic forces, and also ecological,...
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