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Farmers in the Rhone Biosphere Reserve (BR) in Germany receive payments between 150-200Euro/ha/year for conserving land grazed by sheep and cattle and thereby achieve environmental and nature conservation objectives.
Farmers converting to organic production get additional payments of about 250 Euros/ha/year for a transitional period. Farmers in hill and mountain areas can receive...
The article is on Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) carbon forestry projects in the Philippines for land management, adaptation to climate variability to secure food sources, and securing additional income for local community. The Tanay Rehabilitation Carbon Project of Laguna de Bay Community Wastershed has been under development for more than three years. The design and implementation of this...
The article describes two case studies in the Philippines to conserve watersheds. The city government in Baticulan Watershed on N-E Negros levied a fee of PhP 0.75 on water bills. A portion of the amount is allocated to the Watershed Development and Environmental Protection Fund, which supports the implementation of the City Master Development Plan. The remaining fund was used for...
The Metsovion Interdisciplinary Research Centre (M.I.R.C.) of the National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.) was founded in 1993. Its principal aim is to contribute to the protection and development of mountainous environments and local European cultures The activities of N.T.U.A. M.I.R.C include interdisciplinary research for the Protection and Development of Mountainous Environment...
The 2010 Janauray edition of Mountain FOrum Bulletin mainly focuses on the articles' based on Payment of Environmental Services in Mountain Areas of different parts of the world. The bulletin contains total thirty two case articles and consists of activities done on PES in different environmental resources such as agriculture, water,carbon, biodiversity, ecotoursim and forest.
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Water management affects our environment, society and culture. Finding solutions to mitigate negative impacts and adapt to different geographical conditions and climate regions, requires an approach that unites sound and unbiased science with social and policy considerations. To meet this challenges the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) of Germany launched a major international...
An historic opportunity—the eradication of poverty—is within reach of the 2005 World Summit. However, a critical barrier persists: progress on eliminating poverty will only be possible with expanded, more effectively targeted investments in environmental management as a means of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Speeding progress towards the MDGs will require...
The project “Integrating Wetland Economic Values into River Basin Management” has the overall goal of more equitable, efficient and sustainable wetland and river basin management resulting from the practical application of environmental economics techniques and measures.
To help to achieve this goal, its immediate objectives are:
- To...
Formally acknowledging water as a human right, and giving content and effect to this right could be a good way of encouraging the international community and governments to enhance their efforts to satisfy basic human needs and to meet the Millennium Development Goals. It could serve to increase the pressure to translate such a right into concrete national and international legal obligations...
Political and policy decisions in the next ten months on the recession and on climate change will define whether our planet and its people are heading for a brighter future of prosperity and climate security, or a future of inequality, poverty, conflict, and destructive climate change.
If governments round the world respond appropriately, the twin economic and climate crises could...
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