Human aspects

Estimating the value of educational capital formation in India

This study aims to review major issues in the measurement of human capital and present some empirical measures of human capital for India. Education is an important component of economic activity, although investment in education is only one of the many forms of investment in human capital. The main objective of this monograph is to provide empirical estimates of the educational capital formation in different Indian states.

Author(s)
Gundimeda, Haripriya
Sanyal, Sanjeev
Sinha, Rajiv
Sukhdev, Pavan

The whale and the reactor

This works explores questions about the philosophical, political, and social implications of technology, considering a range of issues, theories, and social movements. 

Author(s)
Winner, Langdon

Community well-being in biocultural landscapes

There is a growing recognition that living well must go beyond economic and material plenty to encompass social and spiritual well-being. This book provides an introduction to the concept of human well-being as it relates to international rural development and conservation policy and practice. It demonstrates that well-being is understood and managed in a variety of ways in different cultures but also across the geographical scales at which decision-making processes take place, from the local, to regional, national and international scales.

Author(s)
Hiemstra, Wim
Subramanian, Suneetha M.
Verschuuren, Bas

Background paper for livelihoods module workshop

This paper has been prepared to inform discussions at the upcoming Livelihoods Module development workshop organised by the People in Nature (PiN) team. The workshop will build on discussions from 2013-16 between the PiN team and the Species Programme and TRAFFIC around the integration of PiN and the Red List of Threatened Speciesusing the Species Information Service.

Author(s)
Davidson-Hunt, Iain J. (Iain Johnson)
Deutsch, Nathan
Meijer, Seline S.
Olsen, Nathalie

The Sixaola River Basin, Costa Rica/Panama

The interdisciplinary situation analysis (ISA) presented in this document is the first of its kind and pilots various analyses of secondary data that may be drawn upon to inform the second phase of the landscape assessment, which involves primary data collection. This is the first analysis of its kind and has been performed with PiN methodological development in mind, thus its format will likely see changes as progress is made on different PiN pilot site studies.

Author(s)
Deutsch, Nathan

Conservation status of biodiversity important for Bribri food and nutritional security

In this discussion paper, we undertook an analysis guided by three questions relevant to food and nutritional security for the project site of Sixaola on the Costa Rica – Panama border.

Author(s)
Beta, Trust
Davidson-Hunt, Iain J. (Iain Johnson)
Deutsch, Nathan
Idrobo, Julián
Ndolo, Victoria
Smith, Kevin
Sylvester, Olivia

Socio-economic dimensions of human dependence on nature

This paper consists of a review of socio-economic conceptual frameworks, tools and methodologies relevant to HDN, and looks at the different (socio-economic) conceptual frameworks and techniques that could be used to address the key issues of the framework. Case studies are used throughout the paper to illustrate how particular conceptual frameworks and tools have been used to explain socio-economic dimensions of human dependence on nature.

Author(s)
Conner, Nicholas

Human dependency on nature framework

The objective of this background paper is to report on qualitative social sciences frameworks, and mixed methodologies, that could be incorporated into the HDNF assessment tool. Under this primary objective, this report investigates qualitative methodologies aimed at understanding peoples’ own expressions of the value of ecological goods and services derived from nature, including people’s dependency on these goods and services for their livelihood and wellbeing.

Author(s)
Deutsch, Nathan

An ecology of happiness

Author(s)
Lambin, Eric F.

Medio ambiente

Este XI Informe sobre Derechos Humanos de la Federación Iberoamericana de Ombudsman relativo al medio ambiente cumple nuevamente con la finalidad de la Federación de «fomentar, ampliar y fortalecer la cultura de los Derechos Humanos en los países cuyos Ombudsman formen parte de la FIO», tal y como reza nuestro Estatuto. La Federación sigue apostando por la conveniencia de contar con el apoyo de centros especializados en el estudio y la investigación, habiendo elegido, por undécima ocasión, a la Universidad de Alcalá para ello.

Author(s)
Escobar Roca, Guillermo
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