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As pressures on natural resources increase worldwide, it is recognised that the environmental and social tools that guide economic development are mainly reactive and have marginal effect. The negative implications of this are clear: loss of critical ecosystem services - on which human society depends - and rapid extinction of species. This, together with the growing probability of...
The first publishing of the report of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) was in 2000. Since then, globally, reactions to the report ranged from strong support to serious concerns. Supporters pointed to the opportunities the WCD process provided for finding ways beyond the polarised debates of the past. Others perceived the guidelines as unrealistic and impractical claiming that they could...
Conservation of natural resources and poverty reduction constitute two essential objectives for putting in place a more sustainable approach to development. Nevertheless, neither the relationship between these two objectives, nor their impact on the effective achievement of sustainable development, is clearly established.
A joint technical team with staff from both IUCN and IUED worked...
Humanity faces the challenge of meeting the development needs of a growing population from a shrinking natural resource base. Achieving a balance while doing this requires better understanding and recognition of conservation and development imperatives by all stakeholders, including governments, business and conservation communities. This is a first step towards a more strategic and integrated...
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 describes n IUCNs experience with PES projects on Livelihood and Landscape Strategy (LLS). It pleads for a landscape approach to PES in reconciling global, national and local aspects, integrating social, cultural, geographic, legal, political, historical and economic concerns, and integrating water and carbon markets in forested landscapes.
The carbon and water related...
Indicative of the intense interest and activity in this area of conservation biology, there has been a wealth of new material over the last decade. This includes several published conference proceedings, critical reviews, and a variety of papers reporting field studies, computer simulations and application of conceptual principles to land-use planning. There is also a rapidly growing number of...
In an effort to save species and overall biodiversity, a number of approaches to conservation have been suggested. Some approaches focus on species’ habitats, ecosystems, or other area-based classifications such as hotspots, ecoregions, Important Bird Areas, Important Plant Areas, and so on. Such approaches seek to save nature in a place or region by ensuring that the ecosystem processes...
During 2006, InfoAndina led a meeting of the Andean Initiative (AI) of the Mountain Partnership (MP) held in Lima. This meeting was attended by representatives from the Initiative’s member countries, as well as from the Main Groups. The meeting was jointly called by InfoAndina and the Peruvian Foreign Affairs Department, with the financial support of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat...
This paper examines the impact of two multisectoral highland development projects on ethnic minorities in northern Thailand. While social sector interventions were relatively successfully delivered and locally appreciated, strategies for agricultural development failed to take account of local cultural and production systems, and were fraught with a range of design and implementation...
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