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Climate change results from an increased concentration of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane associated with economic activities, including energy, industry, transport, and land use patterns. Rich countries emit the majority of these gases, while poor countries are more vulnerable to their negative effects. Further, developing countries are more vulnerable and...
The presentation gives an overview of important aspects that need to be followed for fundraising efforts to yield results. It highlights the following:
- Fundraising basics;
- Developing a case statement for your NGO;
- Preparing a fundraising plan and understanding the fundraising process;
- Principles of...
Institutions of collective action and systems of property rights shape how people use natural resources, and these patterns of use in turn affect the outcomes of people’s agricultural production systems. Together, mechanisms of collective action and property rights define the incentives people face for undertaking sustainable and productive management strategies and they affect the level...
At the World Conservation Congress held in Bangkok in November 2004, IUCN members approved the resolution 3.039 “The Mediterranean Mountains Partnership”, calling all concerned national, regional and local institutions to develop action plans for each of the major mountain ranges in the region, with the aim of achieving the conservation of their biological, landscape and cultural...
In the last thirty years Asia has experienced dynamic growth and structural transformation, and has achieved substantial poverty reduction. The incidence of people living in poverty fell from more than 50 percent in the mid-1970s to 18 percent in 2004, and the incidence of hunger fell to 16 percent. However, Asia is still home to more than half of the world's poor, the majority of whom live in...
This report presents the results of a situation analysis of ecosystem services and poverty in the Amazon and Eastern Andes, carried out between September 2007 and March 2008. It intends to provide guidance to the Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation Programme (ESPA) programme as regards the definition of research and capacity-building priorities for the Andes/Amazon. As such, the...
This report details different approaches in helping biodiversity specialists strengthen their communications strategies. The report contains five articles covering a wide range of issues, including, the historical factors that affect the rights of indigenous peoples, the role of culture in small island settings, the roles of scientists and journalists, environmental issues in the United States...
This book is a tool for people involved or interested in communication and natural resource management who seek a better understanding of how different theories and strategic change principles relate to actual practice.
The book relates a variety of theories and change principles in simplified, almost schematic form, to a series of real initiatives in the field through interactive...
The valuable environmental services provided by natural ecosystems are too often lost as a result of mismanagement and lack of incentives to preserve them. Helping countries find innovative solutions to such problems — which intersect with livelihood, vulnerability, and health issues — is key. This article presents the World Bank's work on payment for environmental services (PES)...
This study looks at whether Vietnam could adopt the Payment for Environmental Services (PES) approach as part of its national conservation strategy. Using a pilot study in the country’s uplands, it investigates how such a scheme might run and assesses its impact on the environment and on the local people’s livelihoods. Through a review of current Vietnamese conservation practice,...
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