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Creating markets for habitat conservation when habitats are heterogeneous
Thomas, Timothy S. - 2004
"A tradable development rights (TDR) program focusing on biodiversity conservation faces a crucial problem defining … range of biodiversity conserved but could increase the opportunity cost of conservation. The issue is relevant to Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522905
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Promoting Nature-Based Tourism for Management of Protected Areas and Elephant Conservation in Sri Lanka
World Bank - 2013
Sri Lanka's ten-year development framework aims at accelerating economic growth while ensuring a path of sustainable development and prioritizing conservation of the country's natural heritage. It is in this context that this policy note seeks to examine the scope for enhancing protection of Sri...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557421
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Household welfare and natural resource management around national parks in Zambia
Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit - 2009
"Game management areas in Zambia aim to combine nature conservation with economic empowerment of rural households. By looking at households inside and outside game management areas, this study advances the knowledge of the impact of community based natural resource management on household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394226
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Mongolia : Strategies for Enforcing Wildlife Trade Regulations in Ulaanbaatar
World Bank - 2010
This report reviews and recommends strategies to regulate the trade of wildlife through Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Ulaanbaatar is an ideal site to launch an effort to support improved enforcement of wildlife trade regulations. The city is the seat of Mongolia's government, media markets, and civil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247223
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Convenient solutions to an inconvenient truth : ecosystem-based approaches to climate change
2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393420
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The role of tropical forests in supporting biodiversity and hydrological integrity : a synoptic overview
Douglas, Ellen M. (contributor) - 2005
"Conservation of high-biodiversity tropical forests is sometimes justified on the basis of assumed hydrological … conversion on biodiversity and hydrology for two scenarios - historical forest conversion and the potential future conversion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522565
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Forest management in Nepal : economics and ecology
Hill, Ian - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524838
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Decentralization and biodiversity conservation
Lutz, Ernst (contributor);  … - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010525612
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Environment Matters at the World Bank, 2009 Annual Review : Banking on Biodiversity
World Bank - 2012
This issue of environment matters celebrates the 2010 international year of biodiversity and describes some of the … challenges and opportunities in protecting biodiversity for the benefit of humankind. From the world's highest mountain ranges to … Ecosystem Assessment showed, biodiversity is under severe threat, as ecosystems are being lost and degraded more rapidly and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550510
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Convenient Solutions to an Inconvenient Truth : Ecosystem-based Approaches to Climate Change
World Bank - 2012
The World Bank's mission is to alleviate poverty and support sustainable development. Climate change is a serious environmental challenge that could undermine these goals. Since the industrial revolution, the mean surface temperature of earth has increased an average 2 degree Celsius due to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550826