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20:20 vision – from the realities, the cures
… charts the institute's first 20 years. It describes how research, policy advice and partnerships helped influence the management of … and marine resources; reshape thinking on energy, climate change and environmental economics; and improve approaches to urban development.  … while emphasising the continuing urgency, scale and complexity of environmental and development challenges. It argues that practical …
Publication, 05 July 1992
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Celebrating 25 years
… forests and land use, human settlements, drylands, climate change, environmental economics and development assistance, alongside its pioneering role in environmental communications, participatory approaches and the 1992 …
Publication, 01 July 1997
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IIED's best of 2019: publications
… and sets out the evidence that biodiversity loss is much more than an environmental problem – it is an urgent development challenge. More … ' Development organisations beware! Biodiversity loss is not just an environmental issue ', where Dilys Roe explains why development … climate change adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy ' to gather practical evidence and develop policy guidance on how …
Article, 23 December 2019
Two people carrying bags on their head walk through a bridge over a river
Become a partner at CBA15
… Resilience Fund As a CBA partner you: Create positive social and environmental impacts : by enabling the unique CBA forum where … programme links the conference to other key events, partners and policy processes. It enables the network to remain engaged throughout … focus for CBA+ is to strengthen the link to policymakers and targeted policy-relevant discussions, to ensure evidence generation includes …
Article, 17 February 2021
Top blogs of 2018
Best of 2018: blogs
… address those dimensions through more detailed research and inclusive policy dialogue. 5 To save Africa's wildlife, conservation needs a … Sustainable Development Goals and also provide useful information for policy decisions. Interspersed throughout the programme were case … women to be better represented in decision-making roles related to environmental and sustainable development issues. Her guest blog was …
Article, 27 December 2018
Crops float on water
Time to team up with nature to adapt to climate change
… 22, 2019 By working with nature, EbA can also provide additional environmental and economic benefits: for example, rangeland restoration … The assessment earlier this year from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) … learning from these groups + enabling that knowledge to inform policy and practice globally. — Nathalie Seddon (@NathalieSeddon) …
Insight, 26 September 2019
A farmer’s market, Fort Portal, Uganda
Announcing our new strategy: Make Change Happen
…   Underlying all of this is a concern to promote social and environmental justice, as a world growing ever more unequal cannot offer … for tackling global challenges, bringing diverse perspectives to policy debates, and Pursuing yet greater excellence in our research …
Insight, 08 April 2019
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Here's why Indigenous economics is the key to saving nature
… and enhanced biodiversity for millennia are now threatened by environmental policies that often fail to recognise the value of …
Insight, 12 April 2021
Many inhabitants of the city of La Paz in Bolivia live in extreme poverty. A persistent myth is that urban poverty is driven by large numbers of poor migrants (Photo: Lemurian Grove, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Debunking the myths about migration and climate change
… by the UK government on the Foresight project on Migration and Global Environmental Change brings together the contributions of 350 … from 30 countries and shows that there is no such thing as an ‘environmental migrant’. This is because while climate change and environmental degradation do and will affect growing numbers of people, …
Insight, 16 November 2011
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Timber trade and tropical forests: modelling the impacts of supply constraints, trade constraints and trade liberalisation, The
… Recent environmental concern about tropical deforestation highlights the need … timber markets and to investigate the potential impacts of trade policy interventions. Simulation analysis shows that global … is made economically possible by higher timber prices. Various trade, environmental and timber supply policies will impact regional and global …
Publication, 01 January 1993