Addressing the water resource management issue
The rapid growth in demand for water by the agricultural, industrial and household sectors will place greater pressure on Philippine water supplies in the future. Among […]
- 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
Enquetes sur les mouvements des troupeaux bovins, ovins et caprins dans la commune rurale de Madiama
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- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): A. Ballo; A. Ouattara
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Is there still a need to legislate? A water policy agenda for the Philippines
This paper Outlines the recommended policy agenda for water governance in the Philippines based on the various papers written under a joint research project on water […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): A. Contreras
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management, Policy
How New York City used an ecosystem services strategy carried out through an urban-rural partnership to preserve the pristine quality of its drinking water and save billions of dollars and What lessons it teaches about using ecosystem services
This presentation by Al Appleton, former New York City Commissioner of Water and Environment, discusses his experience setting up payment schemes for farmers in the Catskill […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): A.F. Appleton
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: US and Canada
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Pasture preferences: The ecology and economics of Andean farmers’ decisions
The brief addresses the questions: What drives farmers’ resource management decisions in fragile marginal environments? Are the subsistence activities of small farmers in tropical regions a […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): B. Diamond
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Typologies of production and power: Household livelihood strategies and gender roles in an Andean frontier economy
This brief illustrates an application of production strategy analysis in the SANREM CRSP Ecuadorian site. Production strategy analysis is an interdisciplinary research approach that elucidates how […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): C. Flora
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Gender, Natural Resource Management, Policy, Productivity
Establishing an institutional infrastructure for improved ENRM: The local Environment and Natural Resources Office
Excerpt: In this issue we cover the topic on effecting a full devolution of environmental management functions to LGU’s by creating the local Environment and Natural […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): D. Catacutan; A. Tabbada; C. Duque
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Setting quality standards for environmental management policy: How effective is it?
In the face of continuing environmental degradation in the Philippines brought about by, among other causes, urbanization and industrialization, it is important to ask what has […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): D. Elazegui
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The discourse of advocacy coalitions: Desired futures and natural resource issues
Using discourse analysis, this paper synthesizes, characterizes, and summarizes information gathered from in-depth interviews and focus groups with key representatives of civil society, state, and market-oriented […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): F. Campana; M. Bravo
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Capital, community and collective action: Social foundations of sustainability in an Andean buffer zone (Ecuador)
Development approaches have traditionally emphasized material resources, ignoring the less tangible forms of capital. But sustainable development, especially in relation to land use and production systems, […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): J. Flora
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
