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.
Story | 27 Jan, 2010
New policy brief from IIED: "Towards Food Sovereignty"
Executive summary: Localised food systems provide the foundations of people's nutrition, incomes, economies, ecologies and culture throughout the world. In this way food is primarily sold, processed, resold and consumed locally, with many people deriving their incomes and livelihoods through…
Story | 27 Jan, 2010
Planning for Sustainability in Kathmandu, Nepal: Developing Indicators and Implementing Policies
Abstract: Sustainability is now considered a key objective of urban planning everywhere. However, due to inappropriate planning, weak institutions, lack of resources and poor implementation of policies, most big cities in the developing world have become even less sustainable…
Story | 27 Jan, 2010
Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global Sourcebook
Given the growing focus within CEESP and IUCN in general on the links between culture and conservation and between biodiversity and cultural diversity, CEESP members should be interested in the forthcoming book Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global Sourcebook, by Luisa Maffi and Ellen…
Story | 27 Jan, 2010
In addition to the UN report which was recently released by the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the book announced below has just been released by IWGIA, edited by Claire Charters and Rodolfo Stavenhagen, available for purchase at 20 euros, or you can download the book at the link below…
Press release | 07 Dec, 2009
2.3 million Euro for mangrove management for climate change and livelihood in the Pacific
IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, signed a Euro 2.3 million (or US$3.4 million) Pacific Mangrove Initiative project with the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), on Monday December 7th.
Story | 22 Nov, 2009
Extractive Industry Conference
CEESP/SEAPRISE members Rick Steiner and Richard Cellarius promote a new paradigm for Oil & Gas Development at the European Conference on Extractive Industries, Oct. 13th, 2009.