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  The major importance of minor resources: women and plant biodiversity

  Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme, IIED, 2003

  This paper describes how women predominate in plant biodiversity management in their roles as housewives, plant gatherers, home gardeners, herbalists, seed custodians and informal plant breeders.
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  Modern wildlife conservation initiatives and the pastoralist/hunter nomads of north western Tibet

  Case Western Reserve University, 2002

  This paper reports on a Norwegian lead collaborative research project examining human-wildlife interactions and conservation priorities in the western part of the Chang Tang Nature Preserve, north-western Tibet.Highlights of the paper include:within the western part of the Chang Tang nature preserve, there exist rapidly diminishing populations of chiru antelope and wild yaksan estim
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  Integrated marine and coastal area management approaches for implementing the convention on biological diversity

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2004

  This report details the programme of work on marine and coastal biodiversity under the convention on biological diversity that aims to assist the implementation of the convention at the national, regional and global levels.The report specifically details the operational objectives and priority activities within five key programmes, including:implementation of integrated marine and coast
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  Facilitating conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2003

  Science and technology have long been recognised as essential driving forces in the development process.
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  Biodiversity access and benefit-sharing policies for protected areas

  Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2003

  Aimed at protected area managers and policy makers this report provides and introduction to the complex and rapidly evolving issues of access and benefit sharing (ABS) in biodiversity conservation and considers the role and value of bioprospecting more generally.It concludes with a series of recommendations intended to help protected area managers and policy makers to draft protected area ABS p
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  Participatory biodiversity conservation in the South Asia region : proceedings of Regional Networking Seminar and Second General Assembly : February 2001, Kathmandu, Nepal

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2001

  This report documents the keynote presentations of the South Asian Participatory Biodiversity Conservation Forum in February 2001, Kathmandu, Nepal.The themes of the working papers include:participatory biodiversity conservation in the traditional farming systems of Kerala, southern Indiabiodiversity resource management in Bangladesh with special emphasis on ricelandscape biodiv
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  Can a financial instrument improve the management of natural ecosystems?

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  This report highlights the opportunities presented by the 2000 Amendment to the 1995 Pensions Act in the UK to improve companies’ management of natural capital, including ecosystems, the services they deliver and the millions of animal and plant species that constitute biological diversity.Highlights of the report include:the Amendment can play a role in improving the management of natu
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  Spatial prioritisation of environmental service payments for biodiversity protection

  Norsk institutt for vannforskning / Norwegian Institute for Water Research, 2003

  This study demonstrates the use of TARGET trade-offs analysis for prioritising environmental service payments (so-called PSA or 'Pagos por Servicios Ambientales' in Spanish ) to private land-owners in the Osa Conservation Area (ACOSA), Costa Rica.The paper answers a number of research questions of direct management relevance in ACOSA and general relevance to biodiversity conservation planning i
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  Compensation and cost of conservation payments for biodiversity

  Cornell University Library, 2003

  Under innovative environmental policies, direct conservation payments to farmers are starting to be implemented to induce them to abandon slash-and-burn agriculture as well as the use of forest resources altogether.
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  The impacts of payments for watershed services in Ecuador: emerging lessons from Pimampiro and Cuenca

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  Payments for environmental services (PES) is a topic of increasing interest in Ecuador, particularly as a way to leverage funding for environmental protection.

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