Story | 13 May, 2010
A recent study in Cameroon has found that participatory modeling is a valuable means of capturing the complexities of achieving conservation at landscape scales and of stimulating innovative solutions to entrenched problems.
Story | 14 Apr, 2010
Joint PAEL-TILCEPA workshop on Protected Areas Management Evaluation and Social Assessment of Protected Areas
Story | 04 Feb, 2010
CEESP Steering Commitee Meeting
The CEESP Steering Committee met in Bangkok , Thailand November 27th and 28th 2009 immediately following the 73rd IUCN Council meeting. Eighteen Theme Co-Chairs, Regional Vice Chairs and CEESP Officers attended the meeting together with Secretariat and IUCN-ROSA staff. The objectives of the…
Story | 04 Feb, 2010
Fodder for War: Getting to the Crux of the Natural Resources Crisis
Let me begin with a polemic to get my main point across as to the connection between inequitable land rights and conflict.
Story | 01 Feb, 2010
SDKP Launches New Publication Series With Pardee Center
A new series of policy briefs called Sustainable Development Insights has been launched by the Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership in collaboration with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the…
Story | 01 Feb, 2010
The End of the Hinterland: Forests, Conflict and Climate Change
In light of the recently completed UNFCCC COP15 in Copenhagen, the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) is pleased to release a new strategic analysis on the status of forest tenure, rights and resources globally – and the issues that affected them - in 2009.
Story | 28 Jan, 2010
Economic Costs of the 2009 Floods in the Fiji Sugar Belt and Policy Implications
Based on an economic assessment of the January 2009 floods using detailed GIS based flood inundation assessment and household field survey data, Lal, Rita and Khatri estimate the cost of the January 2009 floods to the sugar industry to be FJ $24 million.
Story | 27 Jan, 2010
Natural Solutions: Protected areas helping people cope with climate change
Natural Solutions: Protected areas helping people cope with climate change, from IUCN-WCPA, The Nature Conservancy, UNDP, Wildlife Conservation Society, The World Bank and WWF. A new report outlines the ways in which protected areas can help mitigate and adapt to climate change…
Story | 27 Jan, 2010
Ethics of Waste in the Information Society
Guest Editors: Matthias Feilhauer & Soenke Zehle (CEESP Member)
With this issue, IRIE - dedicated to the development of information ethics as a reflexive practice and conceptual horizon - aims to engage itself with the broad range of materials involved in the very…
Story | 27 Jan, 2010
Lines in the Sands: Oil Sands Sector Benchmarking
Alberta's oil sands place the province second only to Saudi Arabia in the account of global oil reserves, and almost every major Canadian and international oil company plans to be involved in the development of the resource.