Poverty and environmental damage in Philippine agriculture: Do trade policies matter?
Non-technical analysis of effects of trade policies on farmers’ incentives with respect to land use in Philippine uplands
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): I. Coxhead; B. Demeke
- Type of Document: Not Available
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Land Use Change in Tropical Watersheds: Evidence, Causes, and Remedies
In this volume we examine the process of economic development, by which we mean both economic growth and institutional evolution. We ask how economic development, and […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): I. Coxhead; G. Shively (eds.)
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Trade liberalization, resource degradation and industrial pollution in developing countries
Abstract: Environmental damage is in reality many different types of phenomena, each with a unique set of causes and characteristics. We present an analytical model identifying […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): I. Coxhead; S. Jayasuriya
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Integrated silvopastoral approaches to ecosystem management project in Central and Latin America
This presentation describes the GEF-funded project that addresses the following objectives: 1. Determine how livestock farmers make decisions on land use changes to benefit from PES; […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): M. Ibrahim
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payments for environmental services in South Africa
This presentation discusses the status of PES activity in RSA (Republic of South Africa), the opportunities for further implementation, and current gaps for PES. A map […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): M. Inbar; N. King
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payment for Forests Watershed Environmental Services in Mexico
The objectives of Mexico’s PSAH program is to stop the deforestation that threatens those forests critical for watershed-related environmental services in Mexico. This program pays land […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): J. Brana Varela; C. Munoz Pina
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Participatory landscape lifescape appraisal
In chapter 6, Earl and Kodio describe how the SANREM team introduced themselves to members of the Madiama community through the Participatory Landscape/Lifescape Appraisal (PLLA), an […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): J. Earl; A. Kodio
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Market for Ecosystem Services
Ecosystems and biodiversity provide a wide range of services critical for sustaining, strengthening and enriching human well-being. Understanding how valuable these services are is critical as […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): P. Kumar
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Getting started before you begin: Experiences from environmental service benefit transfer schemes in Indonesia
Abstract: ‘Payment for environmental services’ (PES), or what we refer to in this paper as ‘rewards for environmental services’, is recognised as an innovative scheme to […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): L. Beria; J. Prihatno
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Research planning of the Vietnam TMPEGS team for technology research
Objectives: Develop economically viable and ecologically-sound integrated vegetable-agroforestry (VAF) systems to increase farm productivity and income, and reduce vulnerability and risks.
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): L.V. Du; P.H.D.Phuoc; T.V. My
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management