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Cover for 17273IIED.pdf
Indicators for the monitoring and evaluation of adaptation
… indicators; (2) resilience and related indicators; (3) indicators of human wellbeing; and (4) climate indices. These indicators address the …
Publication, 01 December 2014
Cover for G03731.pdf
Nepalese Compensation Scheme – Chitwan National Park
… structural components required to have sustained success in tackling Human Wildlife Conflict. This publication is an output of the Poverty …
Publication, 01 February 2012
Cover for G03732.pdf
The Kenyan Compensation Scheme
… structural components required to have sustained success in tackling Human Wildlife Conflict. This publication is an output of the Poverty …
Publication, 01 February 2012
Cover for G03733.pdf
Namibian Insurance Scheme - HACSI
… structural components required to have sustained success in tackling Human Wildlife Conflict. This publication is an output of the Poverty …
Publication, 01 February 2012
Forest ethics
… under the banner of ‘forest development’ do not diminish human wellbeing. What IIED did Through analysis and the publication of … to the mismatch between the driving forces behind expressions of human aspiration and the driving forces that shape outcomes in the …
Project, 11 June 2008
'Land grabbing' in the shadow of the law in Africa
… choice do people faced with similar situations have? My new book, Human Rights, Natural Resource and Investment Law in a Globalised World: … law are limited, villagers may seek redress through international human rights law, exercising fundamental human rights like the right to food or the right to property. This is …
Insight, 13 October 2011
A dust storm looms over the drylands of the Sahel (Photo: Marie Monimart/IIED)
How oceans dried out the Sahel 
… arguments. The first long-held view points to unsustainable human activity, exacerbated by rapid population growth, triggering a …
Insight, 21 October 2016
Clearing up after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Women and children, the elderly and people living in informal settlements may be especially vulnerable in an urban crisis (Photo: anjetika, Creative Commons via Flickr)
New research funded on protecting the vulnerable in urban humanitarian crises
… and occupation violence, and In India, the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) will look at the implications of humanitarian … on the city of Chennai. Huge response Diane Archer, of IIED's Human Settlements research grou p, said: "We received 148 submissions, …
News, 23 June 2016
A discussion on protected area governance in a stakeholder workshop with a community on the edge of Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda (Image: Francesca Brooker/IIED)
Q&A: How can we achieve 'fairer conservation'?
… on their existing situation.  An equitable programme to mitigate human-wildlife conflict should have affirmative action in favour of more … areas will yield better results (in terms of poverty alleviation and human wellbeing) if it focuses on improving equity rather than directly … area conservation: a matter of governance, rights, social impacts and human wellbeing , Phil Franks, Francesca Booker, Dilys Roe (2017), IIED …
Article, 27 February 2018
Man talking while two others take notes
IIED research and evidence in academia
… Roe . (Dis)integration in global resource governance: extractivism, human rights, and investment treaties  (2020), Journal of International … restrictions on the operations of conservation agencies, and elevated human threats to nature. It also identifies the immediate steps … ecosystems. Featuring IIED’s Dilys Roe . Between Hope and Critique: Human Rights, Social Justice and Re-Imagining International Law from the …
Article, 23 September 2020