Search

Searching with a thematic focus on Environment, Biodiversity and environment

Showing 671-680 of 862 results

Pages

• Document

  WWF Living Planet report 2004

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2004

  This report assesses the current state of the world’s ecosystems, as well as the human pressures on natural resource consumption, known as the ecological footprint.The report highlights the fact that humans are currently consuming 20% natural resources than the earth can produce.
• Document

  Biodiversity conservation, communication and language: is English a solution, a problem or both?

  Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2004

  Biodiversity conservation is becoming a global agenda operating on an equally global arena. The name if the game is communication and collaboration across cultures and languages, facilitated by ICTs.
• Document

  Conservation management and intergovernmental relations: the case of South African national and selected provincial protected areas

  Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa, 2002

  This article examines the government in stitutions in place in South Africa for managing national and provincial parks, the structures governing relations between them, and their recent history; and identifies necessary changes to the institutional environment.
• Document

  Toolkit: integration of biodiversity concerns in climate change mitigation activities

  German Federal Environmental Agency, 2004

  This toolkit provides a practical guide on designing climate change mitigation activities. The toolkit aims to enhance synergies between climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation policies.The first part of the toolkit gives an overview of possible climate change mitigation activities, especially in the land use, land use change and forestry sector.
• Document

  Up in smoke

  New Economics Foundation, 2004

  This report commissioned by leading environmental and development organisations, examines the impact of climate change on global development, specifically the Millennium Development Goals. A number of case studies presented deal with the repercussions of climate change on food production, water supplies, public health and livelihoods.
• Document

  Rush and ruin: the devastating mineral trade in Southern Katanga

  Global Witness, 2004

  This report explores how the illicit trade in cobalt and copper in Katanga (south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) is contributing to the destruction of the country’s economy, the environment as well as the livelihoods of thousands of Congolese people.As the report demonstrates, the volume of the illegal mineral trade is immense.
• Document

  Engendering Eden Volume III: women, gender and Integrated Conservation and Development Projects in south and south-east Asia: lessons learnt and experiences shared

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This report discusses how differences within communities affect participation and the distribution of benefits in relation to Integrated Conservation and Development Projects.
• Document

  Engendering Eden Volume I: women, gender and Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: lessons learnt and ways forward

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper discusses key issues identified through research carried out on ICDPs (Integrated Conservation and Development Projects) in Africa and Asia.
• Document

  Engendering Eden Volume II: women, gender and Integrated Conservation and Development Projects in Africa: lessons learnt and experiences shared

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper sets out to understand what gender-based differences and inequities exist within communities, and how these affect participation and the distribution of benefits in relation to Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs).Main points of the paper include:the gender differences inherent in local communities have not been understood or accounted for in ICDPs through
• Document

  Access to genetic resources, intellectual property rights and biodiversity: processes and synergies

  World Conservation Union, 2004

  This paper, prepared as a background briefing for the Biodiversity Convention's 7th COP meeting, gives a brief overview of key processes where discussions on access to genetic resources, protecting TK, development of IPR policy and law and their interrelations are taking place.

Pages