This list contains 20 entry(ies).
Development projects worldwide are increasingly required to quantify and fully mitigate their impacts on biodiversity, with an objective of achieving ‘no net loss’ or a ‘net gain’ (NNL/NG) of biodiversity overall.
Author(s):
- Bull, Joseph W.
- Baker, Julia
- Griffiths, Victoria
- Jones, Julia P. G.
- Milner-Gulland, E. J.
On 5 November 2015, a large dam containing 52 million m3 of iron mining residues (tailings) collapsed in Mariana, Brazil.
Author(s):
- Sánchez, Luis Enrique
- Alger, Keith
- Alonso, Luiza
- Barbosa, Francisco
- Brito, Maria Cecília
- Laureano, Fernando
- May, Peter
- Roeser, Hubert
- Kakabadse, Yolanda
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
On 5 November 2015, a large dam containing 52 million m3 of iron mining residues (tailings) collapsed in Mariana, Brazil.
Author(s):
- Sánchez, Luis Enrique
- Alger, Keith
- Alonso, Luiza
- Barbosa, Francisco
- Brito, Maria Cecília
- Laureano, Fernando
- May, Peter
- Roeser, Hubert
- Kakabadse, Yolanda
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
Many organizations do amazing work and provide essential services that make an important, positive impact on the people they serve.
Organization(s):
- Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Nonprofit Finance Fund
This report offers a review of literature from various sources on the impacts of the production and use of liquid biofuels, which are used mainly in the transport sector.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP), Biofuels Task Force
Author(s):
- Cook, Rupert
- Healy, Timothy
Organization(s):
- WWF
- Madagascar, Projet de Gouvernance des Ressources Minérales (PGRM)
This report represents the best available understanding as to what has happened to the environment of Ogoniland and the corresponding implications for affected populations over many years of oil industry operations.
Despite widely voiced concerns about some of the negative implications of protected areas, and growing pressures to ensure that they fulfil social as well as ecological objectives, no standard methods exist to assess social impacts. This report aims to provide some.
Author(s):
- Camargo, Izabel
- Corrigan, Colleen
- Franks, Phil
- Richardson, Vanessa
- Roe, Dilys
- Scherl, Lea M.
- Schreckenberg, Kathrin
- Withnall, Katahdin
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
This pocketbook delves into the realities of the produce trade between Africa and the UK, examining both sides of the equation in search of a diet that is ethically, as well as nutritionally, balanced.
Author(s):
- Rae Chi, Kelly
- MacGregor, James
- King, Richard
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- Oxfam International
Biodiversity policies promote the protection, conservation, and sustainable use of biologically diverse ecosystems and habitats. In doing so, they create significant public benefits and contribute to social well-being.
Author(s):
- Bagnoli, Philip
- Goeschl, Timo
- Kovács, Eszter
Organization(s):
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
The aim of this research is to: 1) identify the negative impact of conservation policies implemented in living World Heritage sites on the social quality of traditional communities; 2) develop a design tool constraining spatial morphology to overcome the negative influences on the social quality
Organization(s):
- Technische Universiteit Delft, NE
Author(s):
- Brockington, Dan
- Duffy, Rosaleen
- Igoe, Jim
Author(s):
- Subasinghe, Rohana P.
- Arthur, J. Richard
Organization(s):
- FAO
- Network of Aquaculture Centres
- WorldFish Center, MY
- Indonesia, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries
The aim of this publication is to present an initial synthesis of core problems in each region, the status and focus of related research, and corresponding new research needs.
Author(s):
- Hurni, Hans
- Wiesmann, Urs
- Schertenleib, Roland
Organization(s):
- Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South, CH
Organization(s):
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ID
- Canada, International Development and Research Centre (IDRC)
- Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF), CN
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
Author(s):
- Rosenfeld, Amy B.
- Gordon, Debra L.
- Guerin-McManus, Marianne
Organization(s):
- Conservation International
Organization(s):
- Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Author(s):
- Bruce, Jim
- Desai, Nitin
- Mascarenhas, Ophelia
- Shihab, Hussain
- Holdgate, Martin W.
