For Services Rendered: The current status and future potential of markets for the ecosystem services provided by tropical forests
This study explains the types of ecosystem markets already in place and their characteristics, before identifying three important strategic issues to be considered in policy-making: the […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): S. Scherr; A. White; A. Khare
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Promoting sustainable upland farming: What does economics tell us?
In this presentation the author covers motivation, decisions and four study approaches, forest clearing regressions, upland deforestation regressions, soil conservation and policy insights.
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): G. Shively
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Carbon sequestration in a tropical landscape: An economic model to measure its incremental cost
This article reports on the incremental cost of carbon sequestration in forestry and agroforestry systems, calculating the potential and cost of carbon storage with the tropical […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): G. Shively; C. Zelek; D. Midmore; T. Nissen
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Conducting economic policy analysis at a landscape level: examples from a dynamic model of a Philippine watershed.
Given the strong and growing policy concern about high rates of hillside erosion and downstream sedimentation associated with upland agriculture, there is a need for analytical […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): G.E. Shively; I.A. Coxhead
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Could payments for forest carbon contribute to improved tropical forest management?
This article assesses the likely impacts of payments for forestry projects that sequester carbon, focusing on scenarios in which industrialized countries may meet Kyoto Protocol emission […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): J. Smith; G. Applegate
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Working for Wetlands in SANParks
Contents: Why conserving wetlands? Where does this leave South Africa? What is a wetland? Where to find wetlands Different types of wetlands Functions of wetlands Indirect […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): South Africa National Parks
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payments to the rural poor for the sake of watershed conservation in Ecuador
This presentation reports a study on the willingness of marginalized upland farmers to pay for cleaner water and their willingness to accept compensation to change to […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): D. Southgate; F. Rodriguez
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Institutional strengthening to enable local governments’s NRM capacity in Bukidnon Province, Philippines
This presentation discusses the structure of the Philipppine government and the relatively recent decentralization that has increased the role of local government in NRM. The institutional […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): A. Sumbalan
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Technology information needs assessment among the farmers of Lantapan Bukidnon
Objectives: determine the technology information needs of Lantapan farmers and determine available, accessible and potential communication channels for disseminating SANREM results. Methodology: survey research design, structured […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): V. Suminguit; D. Tabbada
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Information, education and communication strategy for SANREM Southeast Asia
Presenters describe the Goals of the information, education and communication strategy as: to draw and test innovations in technology and information packaging and dissemination among SANREM […]
- Date of Publication: 2004
- Author(s): D. Tabbada; V. Suminguit; L. Valdez
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management