Why watershed-based water management makes sense
The alarming increase in the scarcity of water in various parts of the world has focused global attention on the need for a stronger and more […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): H. Francisco
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Landcare on the poverty-protection interface in an Asian watershed
This paper presents an integrated approach to natural resource management (INRM) that addresses both conservation of biodiversity and development to increase incomes and well-being in impoverished, […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): D. Garrity; V. Amoroso; S. Koffa; D. Catacutan; G. Buenavista; C. Fay; W. Dar
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management, Policy
Community participation for conservation and development of natural resources: A summary of literature and report of research findings
This paper reviews the available literature on participatory approaches to natural resource management, identifying nine specific elements that are common in literature. The authors explain how […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): S. Gasteyer; C. Flora; E. Fernandez-Baca; D. Banerji; S. Bastian; S. Aleman; M. Kroma; A. Mears
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Land Trusts and direct payments as mechanisms to secure land for conservation
Abstract: Many protected areas in Africa are too small to provide the full array of ecological requirements for key wildlife species. Consequently numerous species spend long […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): H. Gichohi
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Restoring community through concensus: Restauration de l’entente communautaire a travers le concensus. Community concensus workshops: Ateliers de formation en concensus communautaire
Excerpt: This learning manual can be used as a guide for those trained as facilitators to successfully resolve conflicts and build concensus in various settings. The […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): J. Goebel
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
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
