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Environmental livelihood security in Southeast Asia and Oceania: a water-energy-food-livelihoods nexus approach for spatially assessing change.
Biggs, E. M.; Boruff, B.; Bruce, E.; Duncan, J. M. A.; … - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265615
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Panama Environmental and Social Safeguards Issues Paper: Upstreaming Environmental and Social Risk Management
Redwood, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This discussion paper starts with a brief summary of several important existing Bank-supported environment-related interventions. It is followed by a review of pending issues associated with some of these initiatives, specifically those associated with possible new Bank-financed infrastructure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672759
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Potential synergies between existing multilateral environmental agreements in the implementation of Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry activities
Cowie, Annette; Schneider, Uwe A.; Montanarella, Luca - Forschungsstelle Nachhaltige Umweltentwicklung (ZMK), … - 2007
There is potential for synergy between the global environmental conventions on climate change, biodiversity and … positive outcomes for conservation of biodiversity, and mitigation of desertification and land degradation. However, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634589
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National accounts and value of biodiversity in India
Balasubramanian, M. - In: International Journal of Green Economics 9 (2015) 1, pp. 35-57
Biodiversity has provided number of benefits to human beings. But, the national income accounting calculation has not … additional pressure to biodiversity. The local policy makers have concerns about conservation of biodiversity and improving … and biodiversity in particular are at very early stage. This paper has discussed biodiversity and their value integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207800
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The Climate and Development Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean: Options for Climate-Resilient, Low-Carbon Development Title: El desafío climático y de desarrollo en Amér...
Vergara, Walter; Rios, Ana R.; Paliza, Luis Miguel Galindo - Inter-American Development Bank
Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) focused on the climate and development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249349
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Credits trading mechanism for corporate social responsibility: an empirically grounded framework
Hede, Shantesh; Nunes, Manuel José Lopes; Ferreira, Paula - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 7 (2014) 1, pp. 49-92
This paper proposes a framework for assessing credits trading mechanisms for corporate social responsibility (CSR). The motivation to structure this framework derives from contemporary market-based mechanisms of emissions trading (or carbon/credits/offsets) and renewable energy credits (RECs)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944867
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Contractual Difficulties in Environmental Management and the Protection of Biodiversity: The Case of Conservation and Mitigation Banking
Hallwood, Paul - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2003
at the protection of natural habitat and bio-diversity of US wetlands and uplands. It is shown that while it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005746175
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ICT applications in the research into environmental sustainability: a user preferences approach
Chiabai, Aline; Rübbelke, Dirk; Maurer, Lisa - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 15 (2013) 1, pp. 81-100
change, natural resources, energy and biodiversity. The methodological framework is built on the analysis of users …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010997208
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Aid, environment, and climate change in Africa: The case of Senegal
Ngaido, Tidiane - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
The paper reviews the dynamics of the financing baseed its analysis on the rich dataset of AidData ranging over 1993-2010, with around 9,077 observations on projects funded in Senegal by various multilateral as well as bilateral donors. The study started
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854506
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Responses of Antarctic Tundra Ecosystem to Climate Change and Human Activity
Maria, Olech - In: Papers on Global Change IGBP 17 (2010) 1, pp. 43-52
evident dynamics, i.e. changes in both biodiversity and structure of tundra communities, are observed in the forefields of … retreating glaciers. This paper presents examples of changes in biodiversity and in the direction and rate of succession changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861969