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The Sustainability and Cost-Effectiveness of Water Storage Projects on Canterbury Rivers: The Opihi River Case
Hearnshaw, Edward J.S.; Cullen, Ross - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2010
ecosystem services index, which is constructed from the aggregation of normalized indicators that represent each ecosystem …
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Analysis of the cost-effectiveness for ecosystem service provision and rural income generation: a comparison of three different programs in Southern Ecuador
Raes, Leander; Aguirre, Nikolay; Marijke D’Haese; … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 16 (2014) 3, pp. 471-498
In recent years, new tools for funding nature conservation have been designed. Because poverty is often significant in areas with high biodiversity, the improvement of local livelihoods is frequently considered as a secondary goal of new financing mechanisms besides nature conservation. The...
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Understanding changes in business strategies regarding biodiversity and ecosystem services
Houdet, Joël; Trommetter, Michel; Weber, Jacques - In: Ecological Economics 73 (2012) C, pp. 37-46
challenges of emerging mechanisms of payments for ecosystem services and expose the need for standardized sets of indicators at …
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EVALUATING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF IMPOUNDED RIVERS: AN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES APPROACH
HEARNSHAW, EDWARD; TOMPKINS, JEAN-MARIE; CULLEN, ROSS - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 16 (2014) 04, pp. 1450035-1
evaluating the sustainability of the Opihi River located in South Canterbury. Indicators are used to represent the set of …
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On Sustainable Development of Social Forestry in Bangladesh: Experiences from Sal (Shorea Robusta) Forests
Salam, MD.; Noguchi, Toshikuni - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 7 (2005) 2, pp. 209-227
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Indice globale della fame: La sfida della fame 2013: Sviluppare la resilienza delle comunita per la sicurezza alimentare e nutrizionale
von Grebmer, Klaus; Headey, Derek; Bene, Christophe; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
L Indice Globale della Fame 2013 (GHI), relativo ai dati del periodo 2008-2012, mostra che la fame mondiale e diminuita di un terzo rispetto al 1990. Nonostante i progressi, il livello della fame nel mondo rimane "grave", con 870 milioni di persone a soffrirne, secondo le stime...
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2013 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger: Building resilience to achieve food and nutrition security
von Grebmer, Klaus; Headey, Derek; Bene, Christophe; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI), which reflects data from the period 2008 to 2012, shows that global hunger has improved since 1990, falling by one-third. Despite the progress made, the level of hunger in the world remains serious, with 870 million people going hungry, according to estimates...
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Développement durable et attractivité des territoires dans l'Union Européenne, opposition ou convergence ?
Olszak, Eric - In: Géographie, économie, société 12 (2010) 3, pp. 279-305
sustainable indicators as they are used within the European Union for implementing its economic development policy. Assuming there … is a compatibility between sustainability and the attractiveness of territories, we will provide some indicators liable …. Finally, we will study the interactions between some sustainable and attractiveness indicators following the footsteps of the …
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Revue de littérature sur les indicateurs d'attractivité et de développement durable : Vers un indicateur d'attractivité durable
Musson, Anne - In: Géographie, économie, société 12 (2010) 2, pp. 181-223
of sustainable development and attractiveness. Then, indicators of attractiveness and indicators of sustainable …
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Évaluer des projets d'écologie industrielle sur des parcs d'activité : des synergies au territoire
Decouzon, Cyril; Maillefert, Muriel - In: Géographie, économie, société Vol .14 (2012) 4, pp. 411-434
, environmental, and risks). Secondly, indicators are classified into four themes: material and energy flows, functioning mode of the … industrial area, environmental integration and territorial development. Some indicators refer to the corporate scale when others … to a larger scope. Users will eventually choose among those indicators depending on the objectives of collective action …
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