This list contains 94 entry(ies).
Author(s):
- Alexander, Sasha
- Dudley, Nigel
Organization(s):
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Secretariat
Biodiversité et Grande Muraille Verte explore la dépendance de l'humanité vis-à-vis de la nature et l'importance de la biodiversité pour le bien-être et le développement durable au Sahel.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
Biodiversity and the Great Green Wall explores the dependence of humanity on nature and the importance of biodiversity for wellbeing and sustainable development in the Sahel.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
L’ouvrage Conservation de biodiversité des zones arides vise à sensibiliser toutes les parties prenantes et à galvaniser une action plus large afin de booster la conservation et le développement des zones arides.
Author(s):
- Crawhall, Nigel
- Davies, Jonathan
- Dudley, Nigel
- Gudka, Masumi
- Henwood, William D.
- MacKinnon, Kathy
- Poulsen, Lene
- Schulte-Herbrüggen, Björn
- Smith, Jessica
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
- IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- UNEP-WCMC
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Secretariat
After a short introduction of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), the present presentation develops the application of the ecosystem approach by the military sector, in particular in relation to peace-support operations and reconstruction programmes.
Author(s):
- Wit, Piet de
- Noome, Dominique A.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
Author(s):
- Chabay, Ilan
- Frick, Martin
- Helgeson, Jennifer
Organization(s):
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Secretariat
- World Bank
This book is a useful compendium of initiatives and projects demonstrating the benefits of sustainable land management for livelihoods, in particularly harsh environments.
Organization(s):
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Secretariat
- World Bank
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Drylands Initiative
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
- IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL)
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
Author(s):
- Davies, Jonathan
- Ogali, Claire J.
- Laban, Peter
- Metternicht, Graciela
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Drylands Initiative
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
The Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) is an Africa-wide environmental-governance research and training program focusing on enabling responsive and accountable decentralization to strengthen the representation of forest-based rural people in local-government decision making.
Author(s):
- Galuak, Deng-Athoi
- Oyono, Phil René
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
- Sweden, SIDA
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
This paper presents an ex-ante cost-benefit analysis of large-scale rangeland restoration through the Hima system within the Zarqa River Basin, drawing on experience from a pilot initiative by IUCN and the Jordanian Ministry of Agriculture since 2010.
Author(s):
- Moe Myint
- Westerberg, Vanja
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Germany, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
- UNDP
- UNEP
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Secretariat
Author(s):
- Crawhall, Nigel
- Davies, Jonathan
- Dudley, Nigel
- Gudka, Masumi
- Henwood, William D.
- MacKinnon, Kathy
- Poulsen, Lene
- Schulte-Herbrüggen, Björn
- Smith, Jessica
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
- IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- UNEP-WCMC
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Secretariat
Everyone has a relationship to land, but not everyone's right to land is secure. The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) recognizes that conventional ways of managing land are not realistically going to meet the needs of millions of people.
Organization(s):
- Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
- International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR)
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
Designing a pro-poor land recordation system is the first attempt to fill the gaps in the development of new forms of land recordation to assist the implementation of a continuum of land rights approach at scale.
Organization(s):
- Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
- University of Twente, NL
The Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS) was a five-year program implemented by IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) and funded by DGIS (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands).
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
- IUCN, Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS)
It is commonly claimed that forest tenure reform that provides rural people with rights to access and use of forest resources can contribute to improved forest management and poverty alleviation.
Author(s):
- Fisher, R. J.
- Barrow, Edmund G. C.
- de Silva, Janaka
- Ingles, A. W.
- Shepherd, Gill
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
- IUCN, Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS)
- Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Doi Mae Salong watershed in the north-west of Thailand is the headwater of the Mae Chan River, a tributary of the Mekong River. As such, it is an extremely important landscape for the economy of the region.
Author(s):
- Fisher, R. J.
- Kugel, Carolin
- Rattanasorn, Tawatchai
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
- IUCN, Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS)
- Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
This publication is intended to raise awareness amongst all stakeholders and galvanise wider action to boost drylands conservation and development. The book is designed to inform and remind us of the beauty of dryland biodiversity and its intrinsic and instrumental value.
Author(s):
- Crawhall, Nigel
- Davies, Jonathan
- Dudley, Nigel
- Gudka, Masumi
- Henwood, William D.
- MacKinnon, Kathy
- Poulsen, Lene
- Schulte-Herbrüggen, Björn
- Smith, Jessica
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
- IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- UNEP-WCMC
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Secretariat
This paper describes Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy interventions in the Wassa Amenfi West Landscape in the western region of Ghana. The landscape extends over an area of about 120,000 ha. It is a mixed landscape with a variety of agricultural uses; the most important is cocoa farming.
Author(s):
- Nyame, Samuel Kofi
- Okai, Michael
- Adeleke, Adewale
- Fisher, R. J.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
- IUCN, Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS)
- Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
This Manual is first and foremost a community tool to facilitate implementation of Ghana s National Wildfire Management Policy.
Organization(s):
- Ghana, Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources
- International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO)
- IUCN Ghana
- Ghana, Forestry Department
- Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG), GH
This report summarizes the numerous activities implemented and documents prepared by the national and local-level expert groups, and presents the valuable lessons learned.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC)
- Asian Development Bank (ADB)
This report forms part of a project aiming to develop a South-South-North partnership to reshape the impact of a predicted large-scale expansion in global biomass energy use towards greater poverty reduction and maintenance of ecosystem services in developing countries.
Author(s):
- Black, Mairi
- Richter, Goetz M.
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- Imperial College, UK
- Rothamsted Research, UK
This publication provides an overview of some the most important land-related environmental and climate change problems that the world is facing. Land, environment and climate change offers an overview of the relationship between land tenure, land management approaches and the environment.
Organization(s):
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored "place" in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of "kinds of places", or ecotopes, has been presented from an ethno-ecological perspective.
Author(s):
- Johnson, Leslie M.
- Hunn, Eugene S.
Cette publication ambitieuse se concentre sur les leçons apprises pendant dix ans dapproches appliquées de la conservation dans le cadre du Programme régional pour lenvironnement en Afrique centrale (CARPE), qui opère dans neuf pays couvrant lintégralité du Bassin du Congo.
Author(s):
- Angu, Kenneth
- Tchamou, Nicodème
- Yanggen, David
Organization(s):
- Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE)
- United States, AID
This ambitious publication focuses on lessons learned from ten years of applied conservation approaches of the Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE), which operates in nine countries spanning the entire Congo Basin.
Author(s):
- Angu, Kenneth
- Tchamou, Nicodème
- Yanggen, David
Organization(s):
- Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE)
- United States, AID
As new mechanisms for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) are being negotiated in international climate change talks, resource tenure must be given greater attention.
Author(s):
- Cotula, Lorenzo
- Mayers, James
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
Organization(s):
- International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, CH
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- FAO
Author(s):
- Chauveau, Jean-Pierre
- Colin, Jean-Philippe
- Jacob, Jean-Pierre
- Lavigne Delville, Philippe
- Le Meur, Pierre-Yves
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
One of the world's greatest treasures is its land. To protect that land for the future, a group of dedicated environmental entrepreneurs is pioneering a new set of tools for land conservation deals.
Organization(s):
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- IUCN
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development), Drylands Programme
- Groupe de Recherche et d'Echanges Technologiques (GRET), FR
Author(s):
- Cotula, Lorenzo
- Toulmin, Camilla
- Hesse, Ced
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development), Drylands Programme
Aborda el tema de la conectividad del paisaje y su papel en la conservación de la naturaleza.
Author(s):
- Bennett, Andrew F.
- Blanch, José Maria
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
- IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
Compartir un territorio no equivale a percibirlo de la misma manera. Por eso hay muchas formas de interpretar la realidad territorial, muchas aproximaciones sectoriales distintas. Este libro trata de mostrar la complejidad sistémica del territorio, por encima de reduccionismos o iteraciones.
Organization(s):
- Spain, Diputació Barcelona, Xarxa de Parcs Naturals
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development), Drylands Programme
Organization(s):
- Comité Scientifique Français de la Désertification (CSFD), FR
- Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), FR
- UNESCO, Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB)
- Réseau d'Observatoires de Surveillance Ecologique à Long Terme (ROSELT)
- Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel (OSS), FR
The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats is one of the major issues in wildlife management and conservation. Habitat "corridors" are sometimes proposed as an important element within a conservation strategy.
Organization(s):
- Australia, Environment Australia
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
Author(s):
- Esler, Karen J.
- Jones, F. E.
- Burke, A.
- Samways, M.
- Barnard, Phoebe
- Gilbert, F.
- Wissel, C.
Organization(s):
- University of Stellenbosch, ZA
- Namibia, Department Environmental Affairs
- University of Natal, ZA
- Germany, Umweltforschungszentrum
- University of Nottingham, UK
Author(s):
- Jackson, Dana L.
- Jackson, Laura L.
Organization(s):
- European Communities, Parliament, Europe of Democraties and Differencies Group
Author(s):
- Lavigne Delville, Philippe
- Toulmin, Camilla
- Colin, Jean-Philippe
- Chauveau, Jean-Pierre
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development), Drylands Programme
- Groupe de Recherche et d'Echanges Technologiques (GRET), FR
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development), Drylands Programme
- Groupe de Recherche et d'Echanges Technologiques (GRET), FR
The impacts of oil palm plantations have been widely ignored, and given widespread promotion of these plantations throughout the tropics, the World Rainforest Movement decided to bring together research and local struggles in this book, aimed as a tool for action.
Organization(s):
- World Rainforest Movement
<p>This book aims to build a better understanding of how to build on the opportunities -- and how to reduce the risks -- that biodiversity presents to the achievement of sustainable livelihoods for all.
Author(s):
- Koziell, Izabella
- Saunders, Jacqueline
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development), Biodiversity and Livelihoods Group
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