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The growing economic centre of Merti town on the Ewaso Ng’iro river, arid lands of Kenya (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu)
Drylands: volatile, vibrant and under-valued?
… total economic benefits from drylands' variable and unpredictable resources. Our aim was to show the economic valuation of the …
Project, 14 July 2016
Cover for 17077IIED.pdf
Big emitters: how growth in consumption drives climate change
… people there are on the planet, the more the pressure on planetary resources and the larger the emissions of greenhouse gases. So it also …
Publication, 01 December 2009
Cover for G03395.pdf
Community protocols and free, prior informed consent: overview and lessons learnt (PLA 65)
… in helping ILCs to defend their heritage and assert their rights over resources and traditional knowledge. They emphasise the importance of …
Publication, 01 June 2012
Cover for 9002IIED.pdf
Land Management in Ghana: Building on Tradition and Modernity
… examines the different institutions by which access to land and other resources are regulated and the interaction and areas of overlap between …
Publication, 01 January 2001
Sustainable development is dead! Long live sustainable development!
… to account for the economic and social benefits that natural resources provide and the costs of mismanaging these environmental … development." "We need to challenge the notion that environmental resources are there for the taking, that Nature provides a free lunch," says Bass. "The mismanagement of these resources carries a cost that we are only just beginning to appreciate." …
News, 20 March 2007
Cover for 7404IIED.pdf
Market Commerce as Wildlife Protector? Commercial Initiatives in Community Conservation in Tanzania’s Northern Rangelands
… economic activities interact and compete over increasingly scarce resources. …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Woman speaking with a microphone to an audience of men.
Every voice counts: addressing inequality in research and development
… geographical location or income levels. Recognition and access to resources Let us take the case of Indigenous Peoples and local …
Insight, 16 March 2022
A black swan (Photo: Pete Jordan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Civil society organisations in the global South and disruptive change: implications for funders
… To survive, CSOs in middle- and low-income countries need access to resources. But more than simply allowing organisations to survive, these …
Insight, 23 December 2016
Cover for G02515.pdf
Assessing policy influences on people’s relationship to water ecosystem services: The South African experience
… Water resources policy in South Africa is at the forefront of international …
Publication, 01 January 2007
Cover for G03223.pdf
Bulgaria's big energy challenge
… of its fuel for power generation it is also keen to develop local resources. The huge potential for green power generation, combined with …
Publication, 01 November 2011