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Glimpse of a green new future
… energy, cities and infrastructure create between them 70-80% of environmental impacts globally. So, transforming these high-impact … transform the role that such sectors play within a wider societal and environmental context. For example, in transforming a transport sector … Economics …
Insight, 29 July 2011
The Earthscan Reader in Rural-Urban Linkages
… the first time, covering the economic, livelihood, resource use and environmental threads that bind cities and rural areas together • …
Publication, 01 August 2006
Green economy – learning from the Caribbean
… very problems that this paradigm creates: poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation. But serious reflection on UNEP’s Green … countries suffer often overwhelming outside economic, cultural and environmental influence. So we were able to learn that Caribbean green … and assuring the rights and support to sustain livelihoods Economics is still the principal language of policy, and so …
Insight, 04 March 2011
Markets for environmental services case studies
… world increasingly rely on market-based policy instruments (MBIs) for environmental management, such as pollution taxes, water user fees or … protection services and improved livelihoods IIED's environmental economics and forestry and land use programmes worked together on this … Commission. This resulted in a series of publications , including theme papers on privatising sustainable forestry, certification, …
Project, 08 May 2008
Two women talking to each other at a crowded event.
Strengthening local voices in the governance of food systems and the environment
… conservation policies and practice for food and livelihood security, environmental sustainability and justice, and Strengthening local voices …
Project, 01 September 2011
Barbara Ward in the audience
IIED's founder: Barbara Ward
… She graduated with the highest honours in philosophy, politics and economics. Journalism and writing She published her first book at the … on the subject of the growing gap between rich and poor countries, a theme that was to occupy her thinking for the remainder of her life. In … born 100 years previously. Early champion of sustainable development Environmental campaigners know Ward for her book "Only One Earth: The …
Article, 20 August 2014
A woman holds up woven baskets
Nominating your outstanding women in development
… to celebrate outstanding women in development. This underlying theme and spirit of the IIED lecture series shows our support for all … nominated by Paul Steele . "Kristalina Georgieva inspires me as the environmental economist with the most power to drive positive change in … Aid via Flickr , CC BY-SA 2.0 ) "She did her PhD on environmental economics policy of the United States at the Karl Marx Higher Institute …
Article, 15 June 2020
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Article, 17 February 2021
PLA 26: General Issue
… June 1996 This edition begins with two papers with an economic theme from Kenya. Emerton and Mogaka describe a method of valuing … policies on livelihood strategies.  Continuing the policy theme, two papers describe the use of PRA in urban and rural communities … format. Download the complete issue. Contents Editorial Participatory environmental valuation of forest resources in the Aberdares, Kenya Lucy …
Article, 31 May 1996
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Impacts of Certification on Community Forest Enterprises: A case study of the Lomerio community Forest Management Project, Bolivia
… and yet there has been little assessment of its economic, social and environmental impacts. This report presents an impact analysis of forest …
Publication, 01 January 1998