Fair Deals for Watershed Services in the Caribbean
Fair Deals for Watershed Services in the Caribbean

Author: Sarah McIntosh

Publisher: IIED

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1843696525

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This report describes an action-learning project led by the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) that strengthened the capacity of national and regional institutions to assess the potential of economic instruments to improve the quality and delivery of watershed services in the Caribbean. It focuses on project sites and case studies in Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, while drawing on lessons of wider regional and international interest.

Incentives to Sustain Forest Ecosystem Services
Incentives to Sustain Forest Ecosystem Services

Author: Ivan Bond

Publisher: IIED

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1843697424

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The Government of Norway, through its International Climate and Forest Initiative, will allocate up to NOK3 billion (approximately US $430 million) a year between 2009 and 2012 to mitigate greenhouse gases produced by land-use change. An assessment of the utility of payments for ecosystem services as a tool for REDD was commissioned by the Norwegian Minister for the Environment and International Development to inform the International Climate and Forest Initiative. This document represents a summary of ten papers which made up the assessment."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Social Assessment of Conservation Initiatives
Social Assessment of Conservation Initiatives

Author: Kate Schrekenberg

Publisher: IIED

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1843697696

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Despite widely voiced concerns about some of the negative implications of protected areas, and growing pressures to ensure that they fulfil social as well as ecological objectives, no standard methods exist to assess social impacts. This report aims to provide some.

Community Management of Natural Resources in Africa
Community Management of Natural Resources in Africa

Author: Dilys Roe

Publisher: IIED

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1843697556

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Provides a pan-African synthesis of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), drawing on multiple authors and a wide range of documented experiences from Southern, Eastern, Western and Central Africa. This title discusses the degree to which CBNRM has met poverty alleviation, economic development and nature conservation objectives.

Tenure in REDD
Tenure in REDD

Author: Lorenzo Cotula

Publisher: IIED

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 184369736X

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As new mechanisms for "reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation" (REDD) are being negotiated in international climate change talks, resource tenure must be given greater attention. Tenure over land and trees--the systems of rights, rules, institutions and processes regulating their access and use--will affect the extent to which REDD and related strategies will benefit, or marginalise, forest communities. This report aims to promote debate on the issue. Drawing on experience from seven rainforest countries (Brazil, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guyana, Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea), the report develops a typology of tenure regimes across countries, explores tenure issues in each country, and identifies key challenges to be addressed if REDD is to have equitable and sustainable impact.