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Focal Areas for Measuring the Human Well-Being Impacts of a Conservation Initiative

Leisher, Craig; Samberg, Leah H.; Buekering, Pieter Van; … - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 3, pp. 997-1010

Within conservation, the need to measure the impacts on people from conservation initiatives such as projects and programs is growing, but understanding and measuring the multidimensional impacts on human well-being from conservation initiatives is complex. To understand the constituent...

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What Do the IUCN Categories Really Protect? A Case Study of the Alpine Regions in Spain

Muñoz, Lorena; Hausner, Vera Helene - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 6, pp. 2367-2388

Protected area (PA) coverage is used as an indicator of biodiversity protection worldwide. The effectiveness of using … PAs established for purposes other than biodiversity protection. Although international standards have been developed by … the IUCN categories, thus making the IUCN categories dubious measures of biodiversity conservation. Management plans are …

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Integrating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Goal Structure, Target Areas and Means of Implementation

Lucas, Paul L.; Kok, Marcel T.J.; Nilsson, Måns; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2013) 1, pp. 193-216

sustainable development. Biodiversity and ecosystem services are essential for poverty eradication, which is also one of the … foundations of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Based on an assessment of … current proposals of goals and targets, and a quantitative pathway analysis to meet long term biodiversity and food security …

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Chapter 73 Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth

Gollin, Douglas - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3825-3866). 2010

In most poor countries, large majorities of the population live in rural areas and earn their livelihoods primarily from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a...

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Pacific Salmon Law and the Environment : Treaties, Endangered Species, Dam Removal, Climate Change, and Beyond (Tables and Preface)

Blumm, Michael C. - 2022

The law and policy of salmon protection and restoration are complex, and matters surrounding salmon implicate topics as varied as Indian treaty fishing rights, dam management and removal, international treaties, predator control, and climate change. Pacific Salmon Law and the Environment...

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EU common agricultural policy : impacts on trade with Africa and African agricultural development

Kornher, Lukas; Braun, Joachim von - 2020

The impacts of European agricultural and trade policies on agricultural development and food security in Africa are … agricultural trade flows between the EU and Africa as a whole and in the context of case studies on meat and milk; (iii) a …; and (iv) model simulations of the effects of possible reform projects on production in and trade flows with Africa. The …

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Land deals in Africa: pioneers and speculators

Collier, Paul; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Much African land currently has low productivity and has attracted investors purchasing (or leasing) land as a speculative option on higher future prices or productivity. If land deals are to be beneficial they need to induce productivity enhancing investments. Some of these will be publicly...

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Land Deals in Africa: Pioneers and speculators

Collier, Paul; Venables, Anthony J - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2012

Much African land currently has low productivity and has attracted investors leasing land as a speculative option on higher future prices or productivity. To be beneficial land deals need to induce productivity enhancing investments. Some of these will be publicly provided (infrastructure,...

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Water use options for regional development. Potentials of new water technologies in Central Northern Namibia

Lux, Alexandra; Janowicz, Cedric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The CuveWaters project relates the alignment and implementation of innovative water technologies to an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Cuvelai-Etosha-Basin, which lies in Central Northern Namibia. The aim here is to improve inhabitants’ living conditions by means of...

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Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century : Contemporary Responses to Depopulation and Socioeconomic Decline

Matanle, Peter - 2012

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