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Climate Communications Day at Doha: New approaches to reach new audiences
News, 13 December 2012
Cover for G01032.pdf
Ch. 6, Version 010315 Chapter 6 THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL COSTS
… called internalized costs, since the firm or party that uses these resources pays for them. Social costs also include any external costs, …
Publication, 01 January 1970
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vii The Millennium Development Goals and Conservation: Summary
… On the one hand, because the goods and services generated by natural resources are generally unaccounted for in national statistics, …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Harvesting paddy fields
Ensuring small holders aren't squeezed out of agricultural investments
Insight, 06 December 2012
Paul, a gold prospector in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR)
Six steps forward for African mining
Insight, 01 March 2017
Colombia's government and left-wing insurgents sign a historic agreement ending 52 years of conflict. Some commentators suggest the peace process has opened the way for major progress on the SDGs (Photo: Gobierno de Chile, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
SDGs: from adopted framework to political force for change
Insight, 17 February 2017
New Melones Lake, California, which is facing one of the most severe droughts on record with a state of emergency declared in January (Photo: Ben Amstutz, Flickr, via Creative Commons)
2016 – when global meets local in climate action
Insight, 04 January 2016
Alternatives to large land acquisitions in developing nations
… deals carry big risks as local people may lose access to the land and resources they have used for generations. The more promising investments …
News, 18 June 2010
Ibadan, Nigeria, a city that has experienced devastating high winds and flooding (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
How risk accumulates in African cities – and ways to break the cycle
Insight, 30 January 2017
An area of forest in Tanzania, where REDD+ activities have included the support of community land use planning and the provision of alternative livelihoods (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Tackling deforestation as part of climate action
Insight, 17 December 2015