Story | 01 Dec, 2010
CEESP SEAPRISE Members Clive Wicks and Sandra Kloff and Paul Siegel have just published a best practice guide 'Extractive Industries and sustainable development'. Available in English and French.
Story | 30 Nov, 2010
Conservation & Human Rights – CIHR Scoping Meeting on Key Issues 2-3 Nov 2010
To further learning on human rights issues in conservation contexts, the Conservation Initiative on Human Rights (CIHR) hosted a scoping meeting from 2-3 November 2010, at WWF-US (Washington, DC) and BirdLife International (Cambridge, UK).
Story | 29 Nov, 2010
Workshop assesses IUCN's strategy for sustainable bioenergy
November 22-24 Doris Cellarius attended a 3-day meeting at IUCN in Gland, Switzerland, as a representative of CEESP to assist in defining IUCN's vision for sustainable bioenergy. The meeting was designed to build stronger linkages between the IUCN Secretariat, its regional offices,…
Story | 29 Nov, 2010
"The 17th issue of Policy Matters, the CEESP journal, was released in October at the 10th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan. This issue of Policy Matters is titled, "Exploring the Right to Diversity in Conservation Law, Policy…
Story | 29 Nov, 2010
'Economics and Ecosystems demonstrates how the concepts of economic efficiency, sustainability and equity can be applied in ecosystem management. The book presents an overview of these three concepts, a framework for their analysis and modelling, and three case studies.
Story | 29 Nov, 2010
Bio-cultural Diversity Conserved by Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities - Examples and Analysis
(Also available in French, Spanish and English) Indigenous conservation territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities– ICCA for short– are the subject of an IUCN/CEESP Indigenous conservation territories and areas conserved by indigenous…
Story | 29 Nov, 2010
(Also available in French, Spanish and English). Though their existence is arguably as old and wideespread as human civilisation itself, territories are areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCAs) have only recently gained sustained attention in formal conservation…
Story | 29 Nov, 2010
Side-Event - “Aree Protette e Rete NATURA 2000/Protected Areas and Natura 2000 Network”
Story | 29 Nov, 2010
Virtuous Circles: Values, Systems and Sustainability
By Andy Jones, Michel Pimbert and Janice Jiggins, 2010. In recent years, simultaneous crises in energy costs, the price and availability of food, water supplies, biodiversity loss, the financial system and climate change have all had a major impact on lives and livelihoods across the globe.…
Story | 29 Nov, 2010
Democratising agricultural research for food sovereignty in West Africa
By Michel Pimbert, Boukary Barry, Anne Berson, Khanh Tran-Than. This multimedia publication is available online only. A hardcopy version will be printed in early 2011. This multimedia book reports on an initiative in West Africa that seeks to create safe spaces in which food providers and…