Search

Searching with a thematic focus on Environment and natural resource management

Showing 301-310 of 765 results

Pages

• Organisation

  Healthy Reefs Initiative

  Healthy Reefs for Healthy People is a collaborative international initiative that generates user-friendly tools to measure the health of the Mesoamerican Reef Ecosystem, and delivers scientifically cr
• Document

  Adaptation to climate change in international river basins in Africa: a review

  Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2008

  Africa’s fresh water resources, which are under pressure, are vital to the support of livelihoods, food security and power generation, as well as growing domestic and industrial needs.
• Document

  Design principles for global commons: natural resources and emerging technologies

  International Journal of the Commons, 2011

  This paper examines the eight design principles, which were first put forward by Elinor Ostrom and are based on her work on stable local common pool resource management.
• Document

  Rise and spread of national and sub-national forest carbon schemes

  Forest Carbon Asia, 2012

  In December 2011 at the international climate change negotiations at COP17 in Durban, there were further developments on the proposed REDD+ mechanism to reduce forest-based emissions and enhance forest carbon sinks. Various countries have initiated forest-related emission reduction and offsetting schemes within the last year.
• Organisation

  The Earth System Governance Project

  The Earth System Governance Project is the largest social science research network in the area of governance and global environmental change.
• Organisation

  Tegemeo Institute of Agriculture policy and Development

  Tegemeo Institute conducts Research and Analysis on policy in the domain of agriculture, rural development, natural resources and environment.
• Document

  The conflict between poverty and river system management: the case study of Malawi, Southern Africa

  Bunda College of Agriculture, 2011

  In a country where over 75% of the families cannot feed themselves, producing on average only 64% of their own food requirements, and where at least 500-1,000 people died of hunger and hunger-related diseases in 2002, managing riverine fisheries and systems is a big challenge in Malawi.The deep poverty of Malawians has meant pressure on catchment areas or rivers, where there is over-cultivation, p
• Document

  The evaluation of the present and potential water resources management for the Lake Chilwa Basin

  University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, 2010

  The Lake Chilwa Basin is important for fishing,agricultural production, research and a source of water supply for the Municipality of Zomba, Southern Malawi.
• Document

  Bio-economics of common resource over exploitation: case of Lake Malombe Chambo (Oreochromis Sp. Cichilidae) fishery in Malawi

  Bunda College of Agriculture, 2002

  The importance of fisheries resources to the economy of Malawi cannot be understated. These resources make a significant contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), provide both direct and indirect employment and supply relatively cheap protein to the population. The Chambo stocks in Lake Malombe declined rapidly in the late 1980s and collapsed in the early 1990s.
• Document

  Natural resources conflict: management processes and strategies in Africa

  Institute for Security Studies, 2010

  This brief paper argues that environmental degradation in forms such as desertification, resource depletion and demographic pressure exacerbates tensions and instability. The paper particularly focuses on the role of natural resources in motivating and fueling armed conflicts in Africa.

Pages