The governance of nature and the nature of governance: policy that works for biodiversity and livelihoods
This report is an output of IIED
Filters
- Reports
Search Results
-
-
All that glitters: a review of payments for watershed services in developing countries
This report reviews the current status of payments for watershed services in developing countries. It highlights the main trends in the evolution of these schemes, synthesising the available evidence on their environmental and social impacts, and drawing lessons for the design of future initiatives.
-
Establishing resilient marine protected area networks: making it happen
This guide helps us to better understand the role of MPAs and MPA networks at local and regional scales to achieve marine conservation. It utilizes current scientific knowledge, institutional experience and global case studies to outline the latest information pertaining to building resilient and functional MPA networks. It also highlights global commitments
-
Financing adaptation: opportunities for innovation and experimentation
This paper seeks to provide some answers, and to lay out the state of play in the fledgling field of climate adaptation finance. It provides a conceptual model for the relationship between adaptation and development. It reviews estimates of adaptation costs and the funding chasm with existing sources of adaptation finance. It also assesses existing and
-
Studying gap between irrigation potential created and utilized in India: final report
This study by IIM-Ahmedabad examines various issues related to the gap between irrigation potential created and utilized and suggests measures for reducing the gap.
-
Technology policies to address climate change
This brief presents public policy tools available to provide support for research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) of technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. An emissions price induced by a
-
Policies to reduce emissions from the transportation sector
This brief discusses public policy tools available to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector. Reducing GHG emissions from transportation, which comprise one third of total U.S. CO2 emissions, will need
-
The Bali road map: key issues under negotiation
This paper briefly sketches the history of the climate negotiations, ending with the most recent agreements in Bali. The paper then turns to the scientific basis of the work on mitigation. It introduces background concepts for proposals on mitigation, which identifies not only different schools of thought but a number of specific proposals as well.
-
Research strategy on global change in mountain biosphere reserves
The one-day workshop aimed at discussing how the GLOCHAMORE (Global Change in Mountain Regions)research strategy for mountain biosphere reserves and other mountain protected areas could be implemented.
-
District groundwater brochure: Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu
The hydrogeological environment in the Nagapattinam district has been subjected to pollution considerably. The eastern part of the district being tail end of the canal system, and due to inferior quality of ground water, the agricultural prosperity in the eastern part attained a set back. The agricultural lands are brought under aquaculture use.
-
Forests: climate change, biodiversity and land degradation
Forests cover approximately 30% of the Earth
-
Promoting sustainable energy technology transfers through the CDM
The objective of the study
-
UNEP and partners: united to combat climate change
UNEP has more than twenty years of experience working on climate change. UNEP helped establish the IPCC with the WMO in the 1980s and conducted assessments of the scientific understanding of climate change in preparation for the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development. UNEP also supported the negotiation of the UNFCCC, which entered into force in 1994.
-
National urban sanitation policy 2008
Sanitation is defined as safe management of human excreta, including its safe confinement treatment, disposal and associated hygiene-related practices. While this policy pertains to management of human excreta and associated public health and
-
Beyond cutting emissions: protecting wildlife and ecosystems in a warming world
Global warming confronts policymakers with two significant and serious challenges to wildlife and ecosystem conservation and the web of life on which we all depend. The first, reducing levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions, has at last begun to receive significant and much-needed attention from the public and in the halls of Congress.
-
FTA mission to India: Delhi, Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Mumbai - September 20-30, 2008
This report summarizes the activities that occurred as part of the FTA Mission to India conducted in September 2008. The mission provided the opportunity to members of the U.S. delegation to meet with senior Indian transportation officials, and to learn of India
-
Costs and benefits of flood mitigation in the Lower Bagmati Basin
The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a systematic qualitative analysis of the costs and benefits of constructing embankments in the lower Bagmati River basin, which stretches across the Nepal Tarai and into northern Bihar. This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of both structural flood control measures, and a wide array of local, "people-centered" strategies.
-
Winter and Diesel cars
Even without looking at the air pollution figures we know from the darkened sky-line that Delhi's air quality gains will be lost this winter. Air has begun to get heavy with dust, smoke and particles.
-
Management of waste in India: performance audit
This report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India the for the year ended March 2007 containing the results of the Performance Audit on
