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Social impacts of the payments for environmental services (PES) scheme in Costa Rica: a quantitative field survey and analysis of the Virilla watershed, The
… and examines the effects the programme has had on financial, human, social, physical and environmental capital. …
Publication, 01 January 2003
A collection of resources and images relating to the artisanal and small-scale mining sector compiled by IIED (Photos/images: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures and IIED)
A day of sharing ASM knowledge
… what happened when IIED travelled to Geita District to find out the human stories behind gold mining in ' Gold mining: the search for …
Article, 25 June 2015
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Local champions: towards transparent, accountable governance in Embakasi, Kenya (PLA 64)
… This limits their voice, choice and consequently their fundamental human freedom. But this article is about a counter example. In November …
Publication, 01 December 2011
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Fair and Green? Social impacts of payments for environmental services in Costa Rica
… to a wider concept of ecosystem services that feeds directly into human and industrial functions of production or consumption. Farmers who …
Publication, 01 December 2010
Environmental problems in an urbanizing world
… book describes environmental problems in cities and how these affect human health, local eco-systems and global cycles. It also shows that …
Publication, 01 January 2001
A boat near Fiji. Tourism and fishing are important industries for the Pacific nation of Fiji. Both of these economically important sectors depend on effective marine conservation (Photo: Sam Gao, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ocean of bliss: rewriting the narrative
Insight, 08 June 2015
People walking on agricultural land
Envisioning a better future for The Gambia
Insight, 19 July 2021
An image of crouching community members in a village in Champasak province, Laos identify areas where open defecation is taking place ahead of implementing sanitation measures (Photo: Viengsompasong Inthavong/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
An urban approach to 'leaving no one behind'
… and opportunities for all" and "ecological and resilient cities and human settlements": the current debate appears to position leaving no … level.  David Dodman ([email protected]) is director of IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 02 June 2016
A Rwandan farmers stands in her field of maize with hills rising behind her in the background.
Feeding the World: Why we must do more than just increase yields
… will affect: biodiversity and land-use; animal welfare; human nutrition; rural economies; and sustainable development. "To feed …
News, 05 July 2013
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How to build an eco-functional planet: The paradoxical assumptions behind the pervasive belief that market-driven managerialism is the key to our ecological future
… and ecological functions of our planet are optimally synchronized and human needs will be met through market mechanisms. In this essay I …
Publication, 01 June 2008