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Legal Tools for Citizen Empowerment: Strengthening rights and voices in natural resource investment
… claim rights and engage in legal reforms, to mobilising international human rights bodies or making use of investor and company grievance …
Publication, 01 November 2014
Maria Lourdes Alvarez is a warden monitoring fishing activity at Decalve Marine Sanctuary, a Marine Protected Area in the Calamianes Islands in the Philippines (Photo: Asuncion Sia/USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Gender and biodiversity conservation – progress and future directions
… conservation. Specifically, he asked: “If contributing to human wellbeing is one goal of conservation, and respecting human rights is a universal obligation – is gender equality to be …
Insight, 29 November 2018
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Lessons learnt from a community scout programme in Uganda
… or to prevent future conflicts. Consequently, addressing this human-wildlife conflict (HWC) is a priority for many protected areas …
Publication, 01 March 2018
An image from the fiscal tools animation, that was screened at the Blue Economy Conference in Nairobi (Image: IIED/Nice and Serious)
IIED animation: using fiscal policy tools to create a sustainable future for ocean and people
… and damaged seafloor habitats to deadly plastic pollution, human activity has pushed our ocean to crisis point – and threatens the …
News, 28 November 2018
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Climate-smart people-centred conservation: a new framework for socially-just conservation in a changing climate
… an approach to conservation which has dual climate change and human wellbeing objectives – an approach it termed “climate-smart, …
Publication, 01 April 2017
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Wellbeing of Nations, The
… using the Wellbeing Assessment, a unique method of measuring human and ecosystem wellbeing. It covers a wider range of human and ecological concerns than other yardsticks such as the Gross Domestic Product, the Human Development Index, or the Environmental Sustainability Index. This …
Publication, 01 January 2001
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How can the private sector contribute to delivering climate justice?
Publication, 01 September 2013
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Climate justice and international development: policy and programming
Publication, 01 September 2013
Demonstrating the use of alternative building materials at the Jinja Building Materials Training Centre, Uganda. (Photo: David Dodman)
Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience
… days. But perhaps the more significant effects of climate change on human health will be on the ways that gradual changes in the physical … limits of using uni-directional pathways to understand influences on human health are increasingly recognized by medical experts too – as … showing ways in which local responses can help to reduce risks to human health and build climate resilience — while addressing many of the …
Insight, 17 March 2014
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CBA14 closing: UK minister urges countries to allocate more finance to nature-based solutions to help tackle climate change
News, 25 September 2020