Development and the upland resource base: economic and policy context, and lessons from a Philippine watershed
This paper examines the complex, non-linear relationships between economic growth and environmental degradation that are apparent in the variety of experiences in the recent history of […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): I. Coxhead
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Development policies, resource constraints, and agricultural expansion on the Philippine land frontier
This paper addresses the interactions between development policies and upland agriculture expansion with a model of household-level responses to economic and technical factors, based on characteristics […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): I. Coxhead; G. Shively; X. Shuai
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management, Policy
The potential for conservation contracts to contribute to biodiversity conservation in Madagascar
Abstract: The desire to conserve the exceptional biodiversity present in Madagascar’s forests has been an important stimulant of the roughly $300 million invested in the environment […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): J.C. Durbin; A. Andrianarimisa; P.J. Decosse; C.A. Keck; F.A. Hawkins
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Silver bullet or fools’ gold: A global review of markets for forest environmental services and their impact on the poor
Abstract: Market-based approaches to environmental management are increasingly common in all sectors of the economy. Forestry is no exception. Governments around the world have opened the […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): N. Landell-Mills; I.T. Porras
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Direct payments for conservation in the UK: An example from the North York Moors
Abstract: Agriculture in the United Kingdom (UK) has undergone a series of shocks in recent years. First the BSE crisis and then a nation-wide foot and […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): J. Lovett; D. Kirby; C. Holmes; T. van Rensburg
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Europe and Eurasia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Direct Payment Strategies on Dutch Farmland
Abstract: Nature on Dutch farmland is under threat from intensive farming practices. The conventional strategy for nature conservation by farmers is to restrict farming intensity and […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): K. Musters; H. de Graaf; W. ter Keurs
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Europe and Eurasia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Forest ecosystem services: Can they pay our way out of deforestation?
The ecosystem services provided by forests are vital to humanity and cannot be fully replaced by technology. The services provided by forests are threatened and damaged […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): R. Nasi; S. Wunder; J.J. Campos
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Rainfall risk and “response farming”: Using rainfall analysis, simulation modeling and GIS to improve agricultural decisions in Mali
In this study, analyses of historical rainfall records are combined with GIS and biophysical modeling of soil water balance and crop production to predict performance of […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): O. Badini
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
More efficient water pricing may avert a water crisis
One way of protecting watersheds from further degradation is to impose a more efficient pricing policy for watera
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): J. Orprecio; A. Rola; W. Deutsch; I. Coxhead; A. Sumbalan
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
To reduce pollution: Polluters should pay
Charging polluters according to the concentration of pollutants that they discharge is an effective way to minimize water and air pollution. This is the rationale of […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): J. Orprecio; A. Rola; W. Deutsch; I. Coxhead; A. Sumbalan
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Innovation, Natural Resource Management
