Zobrazeno 1 - 10
of 37
pro vyhledávání: '"Ecosystem Governance Watershed"'
Autor:
Zhu Qiang, Theib Oweis, Jennie Barron, Louise Karlberg, N. Hatibu, Suhas P. Wani, Jalali Farahani, Adriana Bruggeman, Johan Rockström
Publikováno v:
Agricultural Water Management. 97:543-550
Metadata only record Rainfed agriculture is an integral component in food production and livelihood sustainability, especially as the world population continues to grow. The world’s semi-arid and dry sub-humid savannah and steppe regions most notab
Autor:
Montserrat Albán, Sven Wunder
Publikováno v:
Ecological Economics. 65:685-698
Few payment for environmental services (PES) schemes in developing countries operate outside of the central state's umbrella, and are at the same time old enough to allow for a meaningful evaluation. Ecuador has two such decentralised, consolidated e
Autor:
James Benhin, Edward B. Barbier
Publikováno v:
Environmental and Resource Economics. 27:337-366
An empirical investigation is undertaken into the impact of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) on forest and biodiversity loss in Ghana between the period 1965-1995. In the first part of the analysis, a four-equation recursive model, consistin
Autor:
K. R. Harvey, G. J. E. Hill
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Remote Sensing. 22:2911-2925
The tropical wetland environments of northern Australia have ecological, social, cultural and economic values. Additionally, these areas are relatively pristine compared to the many other wetland environments in Australia, and around the world, that
Publikováno v:
Coastal Management. 28:29-37
Metadata only record The local management of mangrove resources in Cogtong Bay, Philippines, dates back to the 1940s and 1950s when some families informally designated mangrove areas under their care and management. The 1960s and 1970s saw several ex
Autor:
Catherine A. Courtney, Alan T. White
Publikováno v:
Coastal Management. 28:39-53
Metadata only record With fisheries declining, coral reefs battered, mangrove forests under threat, pollution levels rising, and coastal communities experiencing increased poverty, the Philippines faces severe challenges in managing its coastal resou
Autor:
Donna J. Nickerson-Tietze
Publikováno v:
Coastal Management. 28:65-74
Metadata only record Fishing communities, the Government of Thailand Department of Fisheries, local nongovermnental organizations, universities, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and FAO's Bay of Bengal Program have u
Autor:
Hakan T. Sandersen, Stephen Koester
Publikováno v:
Coastal Management. 28:87-97
Metadata only record Centralized, top-down fisheries management models based on biological stock-recruitment have, at best, achieved limited success when adapted to Third World fisheries. Comanagement, a resource management approach oriented towards
Publikováno v:
Coastal Management. 28:99-108
Metadata only record The Abrolhos bank, an area of continental shelf off the coast of Bahia, Brazil, has the most biologically diverse coral reefs in the entire southern Atlantic Ocean. The coral reefs and nearby coastal ecosystems constitute a globa
Autor:
Stephen B. Olsen, Patrick Christie
Publikováno v:
Coastal Management. 28:5-18
Metadata only record The experience in coastal management in the tropics that is presented in this special issue is considered in light of other coastal management initiatives worldwide. The major challenges confronting those working to promote cross