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WWF Briefing Series: a guide to Cancun and the environment
WWF Cancún Page, 2003Series of briefing papers presenting WWF recommended actions for the 5th Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization in Cancun.DocumentTourism in Namibia: enhancing livelihood impacts
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002How can local benefits from tourism be enhanced? Livelihood analysis is different to conventional approaches that focus exclusively on either economic, or commercial, or environmental impacts. A livelihoods perspective, on the other hand, provides valuable insights into a range of impacts – direct, indirect, positive, negative - that matter to local people.DocumentCan the south afford to go green?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002How does trade impact on the environment? Why do many southern governments regard environmental protection as a low priority? Are they justified in thinking that pressures to clean up their environmental act are part of a deceitful northern trade protectionism agenda? Could the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have benefits for the south?DocumentSeascapes under stress: tourism and marine pollution in the Mediterranean and Malaysia
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Tourism is one of the world's top three economic activities, accounting directly or indirectly for at least 200 million jobs. A large proportion of tourism is concentrated in coastal regions. The Mediterranean, for example, attracts about one third of all tourism worldwide. But what impact does tourism have on the environment? Is it destroying its own prime attractions?DocumentNatural resources management on the Niger-Nigerian border: reasons to be cheerful?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Do we understand enough about the impact of demographic change on natural resources management (NRM), farm investment and household income strategies in semi-arid areas? Is eco-disaster around the corner, or does land scarcity encourage investment in productivity-enhancing and land-conserving technologies? How should policy initiatives combine poverty reduction with environmental improvement?DocumentPro-poor tourism: opportunities for the poor?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Everyone knows that tourism affects the world's poorest countries and people. But just how great is its impact? Can tourism work for the benefit of the poor? Can tourism be developed to bring economic gains and engagement in decision making to those in greatest need?DocumentAid or Trade? Managing fair trade commercial and NGO partnerships
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Partnerships between commercial and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) are creating new challenges for development practice in seeking to promote 'fair trade' between producers in the South and western consumers. Joint ventures that try to combine commercial and development objectives produce distinct problems, however.DocumentCollision course: free trade’s free ride on the global climate
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Economic activity can cause environmental degradation, it is clear. But just how great is the impact of international trade on the global environment? This study focuses on the extent to which the transportation of goods around the world increases greenhouse gases and leads directly to climate change.DocumentNew genetics, food and agriculture: scientific discoveries, societal dilemmas
International Council for Science, 2003This report presents an overview of the findings of a selection of approximately 50 science-based reviews, published in years 2000-2003, on modern genetics and its applications in food and agriculture and the environment.The purpose of this analysis is to consider what are the issues that concern various societies, and, on the basis of the science underpinning the discoveries in modern geneticsDocumentAligning commitments: public participation, international decision-making, the environment
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2003This paper provides an analysis of the overview of public participation policies in three decision-making arenas or processes:multilateral development bank assistance and lendingnegotiation of multilateral environmental agreementsnegotiation of trade and regional economic policiesThe paper concludes by assessing of which of these arenas (as well as specific institutions witPages