PES experiences in Latin America
This presentation describes several experiences with payments for environmental services from Latin America, including water payments in Quito, Ecuador, that are used to conserve the mountain […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): M. Echavarria
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Dry season feed supplements: The potential role of Cassia tora
In chapter 14, El Hadj et al. describe research in response to a request by Peul village women to deal with Cassia tora, an invasive plant […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): M. El Hadj; O. Abaye; A. Kodio; M. Keita
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Food Security, Natural Resource Management
Can income programs reduce tropical forest pressure? Income shocks and forest use in Malawi
Abstract: Seasonal household data from Malawi are used to study links between income shocks and forest use. A Tobit model is estimated to examine whether household […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): M.M. Fisher; G.E. Shively
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Policy
Simulating urban growth patterns of a developing country city using computational neural networks
Powerpoint presented at the AfricaGIS 2005 Conference: Beyond talk: Geo-information working for Africa, CSIR International Convention Centre, Tshwane, South Africa, 31 October – 4 November 2005
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): A. Manu
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The Natural Resource Atlas of Cotacachi (CD ROM and Hard Copy Atlas)
CD ROM and print copy Atlas of Cotacachi, Ecuador
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): M. Mejia
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Social Networks Shaping Integrated Pest Management Knowledge and Practice
Abstract: Conventional technology transfer is based on the assumption of autonomous individuals independently making behavioral decisions. In contrast, the idea of “social networks” is that people […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): K. Moore
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Asia, Europe and Eurasia, Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Conflict, Social Capital and Managing Natural Resources: A West African Case Study
Table of Contents: Conflict and agropastoral development in the Sahel / Moore [et al] The lifescape : production systems and social institutions / Cisse, Moore and […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): K. Moore, (ed.)
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Social capital and improved NRM
In chapter 16, Moore et al. address the issue of social capital as a factor of development within Malian civil society. Social capital is investigated with […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): K. Moore; S. Cisse
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
What we have learned
In chapter 17, Moore et al. review how the four pillars of SANREM (participation, landscape scale, multiple stakeholders, and interdisciplinarity) were applied in the Commune of […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): K. Moore; C. Brewster; M. Bertelsen
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Building social infrastructure for sustainable development
In chapter 7, Moore et al. describe the development of the commune-level NRMAC providing the social infrastructure that is both adapted to the exigencies of recent […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): K. Moore; S. Cisse; A. Toure
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
