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An image of a river splitting the hills of the Chinchiná River Basin in Colombia, one of eight countries in which IIED worked with the World Bank on natural capital accounting (Photo: Rosalind Goodrich/IIED)
Accounting for the value of natural resources
… framework approved by the United Nations in 2012 called the System of Environmental Economic Accounts (SEEA) . SEEA 2012 provides an … and then categorise how much institutions, government departments, civil society organisations and individual posts might be interested and …
Article, 20 May 2016
New tools can measure the benefits of ecosystems such as coastal mangrove forests, such as this one in Mexico. Mangroves provide protection from coastal flooding and erosion, as well as nutrition for marine life (Photo: Peyri Herrera, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Action to protect nature and tackle poverty gathers momentum
… Ecosystems are their lifeblood. What's new?  In the past, the social, environmental and economic benefits of ecosystems have been difficult to … the budget for environmental protection programmes In India, where civil society is putting pressure on the government to maintain public works …
Insight, 02 November 2016
People walking down a street with mountains in the background
Foreign investment, knowledge and international arbitration: inside a research trip
… Santurbán, as part of their water supply comes from these wetlands. Civil society viewed the conflict in terms quite different from the experts in … cases – might also take into account some dimensions of international environmental and human rights law.  Eventually, this dispute between …
Insight, 22 June 2020
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Chronic Poverty
… (focusing mainly on two low-income areas in Cairo); an assessment of environmental health risks in informal settlements in Aleppo; the struggles of long-established communities and other civil society groups in Karachi to halt the Lyari expressway and to propose …
Publication, 01 October 2005
High-tech trawlers in the Faroe Islands. Ninety-five per cent of this tiny nation's exports is made up of fish (Photo: antonalfred, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Turning the tide: creating incentives for sustainable oceans
… In New York, representatives from government, international agencies, civil society, financial institutions, the scientific community, the private … a way that achieves an optimal balance between economic, social and environmental outcomes? These could include an emphasis on higher …
Insight, 17 January 2017
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A NEW ERA IN International SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
… organisations, and an increasing number of businesses and civil society groups. High profile `intentions' have given rise to a … cycles ­ and for building resilience to them. Consequently, most environmental and welfare measures continue to decline in almost all …
Publication, 01 January 2007
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Company-Led Approaches to Conflict Resolution in the Forest Sector
… resources. Conflicts also arise between companies and communities or civil society organisations over conservation priorities, environmental pollution and benefit sharing. Norms and standards that … Governance …
Publication, 01 July 2009
New Community Forest Instructions give communities rights to commercially sell timber and non-timber forest products, such as such as rattan and honey (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest rights create new livelihoods in Myanmar
… Livestock and Irrigation and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC). This is a hugely significant policy … producers association.  The participants traded ideas with the nine civil society member organisations of the Kachin Conservation Working Group …
Insight, 05 December 2017
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20:20 vision – from the realities, the cures
… and marine resources; reshape thinking on energy, climate change and environmental economics; and improve approaches to urban development.  … governments, international organisations, businesses, researchers and civil society, particularly through partnerships that strengthened knowledge …
Publication, 05 July 1992
The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
IIED's best of 2016: blogs
… campaigners and business leaders.  The interconnections between environmental sustainability and women's empowerment have often been … asked why there was so little mention of local government and local civil society in the indicators. He analysed the the  SDGs and their related …
Article, 28 December 2016