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Cross-sectoral toolkit for the conservation and sustainable management of forest biodiversity
Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008The pressures from sectors such as agriculture, mining, or energy on forest biodiversity require cross-sectoral approaches for the conservation and sustainable management of forests. This tool-kit summarises information on policy approaches that aim to minimize the negative impacts of other sectoral policies on forests and forest biodiversity.DocumentPayments for environmental services: an equitable approach for reducing poverty and conserving nature
WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006This paper looks at Payments for Environmental Services (PES) as an equitable approach for reducing poverty and conserving nature. It presents a number of case studies including Guatemala, Peru and the Philippines, whilst also discussing the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) approach to equitable PES.DocumentCompensation for Ecosystem Services (CES): a catalyst for ecosystem conservation and poverty alleviation?
InfoResources, 2004This document looks at the use of Compensation Ecosystem Services (CES) as a potential catalyst for ecosystem conservation and poverty alleviation. It aims to improve understanding of the concept and also discusses the key challenges faced in implementation of CES.DocumentThe ecosystem concept and the identification of ecosystem goods and services in the English policy context
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK, 2007This paper reviews the key aspects of the Ecosystem Approach, and in particular, it explores how the approach can be used to identify and assess the goods and services associated with England’s major terrestrial ecosystems. It also looks at the rationale for using an ecosystem approach in decision making.DocumentMonitoring land cover dynamics in sub-saharan Africa
European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2006Over the last 25 years civil disturbances, drought, population increases and global market pressures have all contributed in direct and indirect ways to a modification of Sub saharan African land cover.OrganisationCape Flats Nature
This partnership builds good practice in sustainable management of nature sites in the City of Cape Town’s Biodiversity Network in a people-centred way that develops local leadership for conservDocumentNetworking people and nature in the city: inspiration, issues and challenges
Cape Flats Nature, 2006This booklet discusses the work being done by Cape Flats Nature to build a pioneering partnership that tests, experiments and develops an alternative, social nature conservation practice in impoverished urban areas.DocumentAn exploration of tools and methodologies for valuation of biodiversity and biodiversity resources and functions
Convention on Biological Diversity, 2007Most of the benefits we derive from biologically diverse ecosystems are not traded on markets and thus do not bear a price tag, making it difficult to make informed choices about their conservation and sustainable use.DocumentEconomic modeling approaches for wildlife and species conservation
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2006This article has presented modelling approaches for wildlife and species conservation with a special emphasis on large mammals, in a developing country context, and with special reference to sub-Saharan Africa. In these countries there are frequently conflicts over land use and species conservation, and the institutions to tackle such conflicts are often weak or lacking.DocumentA funny place to store carbon: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda
World Rainforest Movement, 2006This report documents human rights abuses at Mount Elgon National Park in east Uganda, where a Dutch foundation plants trees for the purpose of carbon offsetting.Pages