Search
Searching with a thematic focus on Environment, Agriculture and food
Showing 1091-1100 of 1304 results
Pages
- Document
Forest Degradation, Household Resource Use and Management Institutions: A Case Study from India
Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998Analyses forest conservation and management, based on a recent case study in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India. A number of commonly made hypotheses are questioned.DocumentThe role of corruption in the misappropriation of tropical forest resources and in tropical forest destruction
Transparency International, 1998There exists broad evidence that in many countries corruption has been, or still is, a driving force behind misappropriation of forest resources and tropical forest destruction. The following examples were gathered rather randomly and are far from giving a complete picture of corruption in relation with tropical forests.DocumentThe WWF-World Bank Alliance Global Collaboration for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use -- Thoughts on Making It Work
Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Programme Office, WWF, 1998Taking the broad objectives and specific instruments of the WWF-World Bank Alliance as a starting point, the purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of major economic and political forces driving the deforestation/degradation process which need to be considered and addressed to maximize the achievement and effectiveness of the Alliance.DocumentMainstreaming Public Participation in Economic Infrastructure Projects
Overseas Development Institute, 1998In the last ten years, participation has become central to the social development sectors of official development assistance – smallholder agriculture, community forestry, health care, education, urban sanitation, small-scale water supplies, etc.DocumentContestation over Political Space: The State and Demobilisation of Party Politics in Kenya
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998Appraises political liberalization and subsequent contestation over political space in Kenya. The discussion centres on how, from the colonial period, elite politics have precluded organization and crystallization of popular democracy.The paper specifically examines the historicity of political factionalism and attendant decline of multi-partyism.DocumentGlobalization, Uneven Development and Poverty: Recent Trends and Policy Implications
Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998Paper outlines recent trends in economic growth, income distribution and poverty in the context of globalization.DocumentEthical Trading Initiatives and Forest Dependent People
Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998Discusses some of the schemes that promote environmentally sustainable trade in forest products and highlights some concerns about their impact on forest dependent people. The trading chains of many forest products, particularly non-timber forest products, are highly complex and people are involved in the marketing of these products in a variety of ways.DocumentGoing places: Cambodia's future on the move [illegal logging]
Global Witness, 1998Report on illegal logging of Cambodia's forest resources, the government's complicity and the role of Thailand and Vietnam in the export of logs.DocumentCertified forest products marketplace [in Europe]
Economic Commission for Europe, UN, 1998Review of market condition in the ECE area.DocumentRational exploitations: economic criteria & indicators for sustainable management of tropical forests
Center for International Forestry Research, 1998Covers the economic dimensions and issues associated with the of criteria and design of indicators on the sustainable management of tropical forests.Pages