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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
… Essam Yassin Mohammed ( [email protected] ) is senior researcher in environmental economics in IIED's Sustainable Markets Group . …
Insight, 08 June 2015
Two men pushing a boat filled with mangrove seedlings
Finding solutions in nature for climate change
Insight, 29 May 2020
Cover for 16507IIED.pdf
ISO 26000 and global governance for sustainable development
… - should be analysed not only in terms of their direct impact on environmental, social and economic factors but also in terms of their …
Publication, 01 February 2012
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Biodiversity at IIED
… 1990s the main focus came from IIED’s ground-breaking programme on environmental economics – a new discipline at the time. Building on this earlier work, …
Publication, 01 September 2010
Governance of oil and gas contracts in Kazakhstan
… of sustainable development (ie an integrated approach to securing environmental, social and economic benefits) offered a valuable entry … could make a visibly enhanced contribution to economic, social and environmental sustainability Greater sensitivity to sustainable …
Project, 23 September 2010
Paul, a gold prospector in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR)
Six steps forward for African mining
… – the struggles of poor communities affected by mining activities, environmental damage and the lack of effort to make mining operations … that the African Mining Vision (AMV) policy framework was AMI's main theme this year. But a high-profile panel at the Mining Indaba also …
Insight, 01 March 2017
A net full of cod
Fishy business at IIED
… forward… It seems that fisheries will increasingly feature as a theme for IIED's Sustainable Markets Group in its effort to ensure that markets not only contribute to positive economic outcomes, but environmental and social ones too. Now that the triple launch is over, …
Insight, 10 December 2013
Kazakhstan's capital Astana will host the EXPO trade fair in 2017. Credit: Ken & Nyetta/Flicker (Creative Commons)
Kazakhstan: Green economy of the future?
… sectors. Subsidies should address the social as well as the environmental impacts Ensure public finance accountability and oversight over new environmental programmes, for example by integrating Extractive … will host the international trade fair, EXPO . It has chosen the theme Future Energy, which aims to "promote and discover sustainable, …
Insight, 30 January 2014
A market stall. According to recent studies, 75% of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and five animal species (Photo: Hivos)
Cooking for our future
… a global food system that prioritises profit over social, health and environmental concerns. The results are staggering: poor health, loss of biological and cultural diversity, socio-economic exclusion, environmental degradation, climate change. It’s not true our food system … Global Conference of the Sustainable Food Systems Programme under the theme ‘Good Food for People and the Planet – working together towards …
Insight, 20 February 2019
A woman using a hoe
Q&A: Achieving sustainable intensification of agriculture – decisions and trade-offs
… about increasing agricultural productivity without harmful social and environmental impacts. It recognises that there are many agricultural … to produce more food for growing populations against achieving environmental and social sustainability, through, for instance, reducing … food and earning cash for immediate needs) and longer term social and environmental objectives, such as maintaining or improving land quality …
Article, 17 February 2020