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Leveraging global climate finance for sustainable forests : opportunities and conditions for successful foreign aid to the forestry sector

Pascual, Unai; Garmendia, Eneko; Phelps, Jacob; Ojea, Elena - 2013

Forest loss and degradation remains a leading environmental problem. The long history of sustainable forest management has often failed to meet expectations - constrained by funding, governance, capacity and competing interests. Initiatives from the climate change policy arena are opening new...

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Rural Sustainability and Management of Natural Resources in Tian Shan Region, Central Asia

Lemenkova, Polina - 2019

. This leads to unsustainable agriculture and overgrazing caused by cattle herds, and affects sustainability in mountainous … landscapes. Given the unique ecology of the region, special measures should be taken to maintain ecosystems’ sustainability. The …

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Biodiversity and development finance : Main trends, 2011-20

Casado Asensio, Juan - 2022

This paper provides an overview of the main trends in development finance with biodiversity-related objectives for the period 2011 to 2020, using available OECD statistical data, from various sources. The resources covered are: Official Development Assistance and non-concessional development...

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The Dynamics of Man's History and Economic Development : A Refocus on Ecological Disturbance and Climate Change

CHIRWA, MULULU - 2023

Man’s history and developmental endeavour have been advancing alongside a trail of ecological ramifications and climate change. Since prehistoric times, scientists have not recorded an accelerated shift in ecology during any other epoch beside that of modern man on the planet. The paper seeks...

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Bio-economy and the sustainability of the agriculture and food system : opportunities and policy challenges

Diakosavvas, Dimitris; Frezal, Clara - 2019

The bio-economy is gaining increasing prominence in the policy debate, with several countries developing bio-economy strategies to decouple economic growth from dependence on fossil fuel, as well a pathway to supporting some of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and commitments under...

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Green jobs creation : main element in the implementation of bioeconomic mechanisms

Luca, Florin-Alexandru; Epuran, Gheorghe; Ciobanu, … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 50, pp. 60-74

Green jobs creation is the main element in the implementation of bioeconomy mechanisms along with other factors, such as gross domestic product (GDP), environmental protection and national security. The aim of this paper is to develop a profile of companies willing to create new jobs. Its...

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Integrative Governance : Generating Sustainable Responses to Global Crises (Foreword)

Farah, Paolo Davide - 2018

We live in peculiar times: on the one hand, many people — mainly in Western countries — enjoy an unprecedentedly high standard of living from a historical perspective. On the other hand, a considerable part of the population has a feeling that something went wrong, which is underscored by...

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Endangering the natural basis of life is unjust : on the status and future of the sustainability discourse

Becker, Christian; Ewringmann, Dieter; Faber, Malte; … - 2012

The paper critically examines the status of the sustainability discourse and sustainability politics against the … backdrop of considerations about the meaning of justice in the context of sustainability. We argue that the preservation of the … sustainability has been neglected due to a problematic interpretation of the economic dimension, a limited understanding of justice …

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Uncertainty and sustainability in the management of semi-arid rangelands

Quaas, Martin F.; Baumgärtner, Stefan; Becker, Christian; … - 2005

We analyze a dynamic and stochastic ecological-economic model of grazing management in semi-arid rangelands. The non-equilibrium ecosystem is driven by stochastic precipitation. A risk averse farmer chooses a grazing management strategy under uncertainty such as to maximize expected utility from...

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Limits to substitution between ecosystem services and manufactured goods and implications for social discounting

Drupp, Moritz A. - 2016 - This version: March 29, 2016

This paper examines implications of limits to substitution for estimating substitutability between ecosystem services and manufactured goods and for social discounting. Based on a model that accounts for a subsistence requirement in the consumption of ecosystem services, we provide empirical...

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