Debt-for-nature Swaps to Promote Natural Resource Conservation
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9789251032404
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Debt Swaps for Sustainable Development
Author: Dr. Jürgen Kaiser
Publisher: Iucn
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication is aimed at helping IUCN's members to understand the scope and mechanisms of debt conversion and to spot opportunities for their own action in this important field.
Tourism in National Parks and Protected Areas
Author: Paul F. J. Eagles
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0851995896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the state of the art of tourism planning and management in national parks and protected areas. It also provides guidelines for best practice in tourism operations. Other objectives are to: Describe case studies and guidelines that contribute to conservation of biological diversity; consider the role of local communities within or near these areas; outline the development of tourism infrastructure and services; discuss visitor management; provide guidelines to enhance the quality of the tourism experience. The focus is global and the book will appeal to both academics and practitioners.
Fresh Tracks in the Forest: Assessing Incipient Payments for Environmental Services Initiatives in Bolivia
Author: Nina Robertson
Publisher: CIFOR
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9793361816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPayments for Environmental Services (PES) are being considered worldwide with great interest and expectation. Proposals to create agreements in which beneficiaries of environmental services pay landowners directly for the provision or protection of these services are innovative and promising. But what real PES experiences are actually out there? This work assesses a range of PES or PES-type experiences in one country, Bolivia, in the fields of carbon sequestration, protection of watershed services, biodiversity and aesthetic landscape values. The report concludes that while none of the generally young initiatives adhere fully to the principle of PES as developed in the theoretical literature, many experiment with some of the relevant PES mechanisms. Protection of watersheds and landscape values are the most common types, though the implementing intermediaries often have underlying biodiversity-protection goals. Main obstacles to PES implementation include ideological resistance against the PES concept, the difficulty of building trust between buyers and sellers, and limited willingness to pay on behalf of service users. During their relatively short lifetime, basically all initiatives had been successful in making service sellers (PES recipients) better off in economic terms, while the effectiveness in achieving environmental objectives and securing positive social impacts so far remained more variable. In some cases, redesigning these initiatives to bring them closer to the full PES principles could also enable them to more effectively achieve positive environmental and livelihood outcomes.
Financing Nature-Based Solutions
Author: Robert C. Brears
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-01-28
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 3030933253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents new research on innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement nature-based solutions (NBS) at various scales and in different contexts. Despite knowledge of the multiple benefits NBS provide, a key barrier to their wide-spread adoption is a lack of knowledge over their financing, in particular, who should pay for an NBS and how it can be financed. The book explores a variety of public, private, and blended finance models and their applicability in developing NBS across terrestrial and marine ecosystems, involving multiple stakeholders, and in jurisdictions of varying climates and income levels. Furthermore, the book provides case studies of the innovative financing of NBS with best practices identified. This book is of interest to environmental planners, resource conservation managers, policymakers, international companies and organizations, environmental NGOs, researchers, and graduate and undergraduate students interested in NBS.
The Economic Value of Biodiversity
Author: David Pearce
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1134165226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiodiversity loss is one of the major resource problems facing the world, and the policy options available are restricted by inappropriate economic tools which fail to capture the value of species and their variety. This study describes in non-technical terms how cost-benefit analysis techniques can be applied to species and species loss, and how they provide a measure of the efficiency of conservation measures. Only when conservation can be shown to pass such a basic economic test, the authors claim, will it be incorporated into policies.;David Pearce has also written Blueprint for a Green Economy.
Green Consensus and High Quality Development
Author: CCICED.
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 9811647992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book is based on the research outputs of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) in 2020. It covers major topics of Chinese and international attention regarding green development, such as climate, biodiversity, ocean, BRI, urbanization, sustainable production and consumption, technology, finance, value chain, and so on. It also looks at the progress of China's environmental and development policies,and the impacts from CCICED. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing insight for policy makers in environmental issues.
Impacts of Trade Agreements on U.S Environmental Protection and Natural Resource Conservation Efforts
Author: United States
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForeign operations, export financing, and related programs appropriations for 1991
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 1004
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople and Environment
Author: Gareth Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1317876652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople and Physical Environment, A Global Approach provides an introduction to the main areas of environmental concern for geographers, environmental scientists and planners at the beginning of the twenty-first century. These include: Pollution of the atmosphere and its impact on our climate; The exploitation of the oceans; Management and supply of fresh water; Degradation of the land, and Biodiversity, and the need to maintain genetic diversity. The book argues that our knowledge and understanding of the environment is now so great that we can predict with considerable accuracy where the skills of science and technology need to be focussed in order to prevent severe environmental damage from occurring. Achieving successful management of the environment has become dependent upon active participation of a society prepared to pay for a high quality of life and the willingness of our elected politicians to legislate and enforce the very highest standards of environmental management. This book will be essential reading for students of geography, environmental studies/science and land use planners and will also contribute valuable information for climatology, biogeography, hydrology, land economy and forestry students.
