Search

Searching with a thematic focus on Environment and natural resource management

Showing 511-520 of 765 results

Pages

• Document

  Natural resources and trade flows in the Great Lakes region

  Department for International Development, UK, 2007

  This document analyses natural resource exploitation and trade at four main border areas in the Great Lakes region. It looks at the mechanisms of exploitation for cassiterite, coltan, gold, copper and cobalt and also reviews regional transport and transit corridors and issues in the main transit countries: Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. Key points include:
• Organisation

  Research Center for Forest Ecology and Environment, Vietnam

  RCFEE is a specialized independent research organization under Forest Science Institute of Vietnam (FSIV).
• Document

  Towards wellbeing in forest communities: a sourcebook for local government

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2008

  Local governments have an important role to play in enhancing the wellbeing of forest communities, yet often lack the capacity to understand and address local needs.
• Document

  The Amazon’s vicious cycles: drought and fire in the greenhouse - ecological and climatic tipping points of the world’s largest tropical rainforest, and practical preventive measures

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2007

  The Amazon forest greatly influences the global climate and may be coming under increasing threat due to climate change. This report explores the relationship between the Amazon, climate, and the changes in this relationship that are underway as a result of forest destruction and the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.
• Document

  Potential and challenges of payments for ecosystem services from tropical forests

  Policy and Environment Programme, ODI, 2008

  ‘Forest carbon’ has taken centre stage due to the urgency to mitigate climate change. One possible avenue to conserve carbon storing forests is through “payments for ecosystem services” (PES) schemes, which are voluntary or conditional agreements between a seller and buyer of environmental services.
• Document

  Climate change and forest genetic diversity: implications for sustainable forest management in Europe

  Bioversity International, 2007

  Climate change is increasingly recognised as one of the most important challenges faced globally by ecosystems and societies alike. Climate change will alter the environmental conditions to which forest trees in Europe are adapted and expose them to new pests and diseases. This document presents papers from a workshop on climate change and forest genetic diversity.
• Document

  Connecting small enterprises in ways that enhance the lives of forest-dependent people

  Unasylva, FAO, 2007

  Small and medium forest enterprises are the norm in many developing countries. They have much to offer in terms of poverty reduction. But they are often isolated from structures that might help them make that contribution - from markets, financial and business development service providers, and policy processes.
• Document

  Integrating 'livelihoods' into integrated water resources management: taking the integration paradigm to its logical next step for developing countries

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007

  Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is now the dominant paradigm for water management in both rich and poor countries. This paper examines the weaknesses in the current understanding of IWRM from a livelihoods perspective. Empowering poor people, reducing poverty, improving livelihoods and promoting economic growth ought to be the basic objectives of IWRM.
• Document

  Can community conservation bring international goals down to Earth?: Chairman’s report from a workshop on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

  Nordic Council of Ministers, 2007

  This is a report from a workshop on the role of local communities and indigenous peoples in the follow-up of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in environment and in development policy and practice. The event formed part of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Association of Impact Assessment in Stavanger, Norway, 23 - 25 May 2006.
• Document

  Community-based natural resource management and poverty alleviation in Namibia: a case study

  Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2007

  Can indigenous people protect their environment and, at the same time, develop strong businesses that help diversify their livelihoods and alleviate poverty? In Namibia, this paper argues, the answer is yes. Through community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), it describes how Namibians who form conservancies now have legal rights to manage wildlife and benefit from tourism.

Pages