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How Can Jurisdictional Approaches to Sustainability Protect and Enhance the Rights and Livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities?

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2020
Tropical forests are posited to hold up to one-third of the solution to slow climate change. It is estimated that over two-hundred million “forest peoples”—including indigenous peoples and local communities—live within and depend upon tropical forests ...
Maria DiGiano, Claudia Stickler, Olivia David   +2 more
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Importance of local participation in achieving equity in benefit-sharing mechanisms for REDD+: a case study from the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve

International Journal of the Commons, 2013
Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) in tropical countries is now a critical piece of any international agreement that aims to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Maria Fernanda Gebara
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A Compensatory Liability Regime to Promote the Exchange of Microbial Genetic Resources for Research and Benefit Sharing [PDF]

, 2011
Female rhesus macaques were immunized with HIV virus-like particles (HIV-VLPs) or HIV DNA administered as sequential combinations of mucosal (intranasal) and systemic (intramuscular) routes, according to homologous or heterologous prime-boost schedules ...
Andersen, Hanne, Buonaguro, Franco M., Buonaguro, Luigi, Hinkula, Jorma, Lewis, Mark, Pal, Ranajit, Schroeder, Ulf, Tagliamonte, Maria, Torneselloa, Maria Lina, Visciano, Maria Luisa, Wahren, Britta   +10 more
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Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing at the Cross-Roads of the Human Right to Science and International Biodiversity Law

Laws, 2015
As the debate about the need to clarify the content of the human right to science intensifies, this article assesses opportunities for opening a scholarly and policy dialogue on fair and equitable benefit-sharing between international human rights and ...
Elisa Morgera
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Practical consequences of digital sequence information (DSI) definitions and access and benefit‐sharing scenarios from a plant genebank’s perspective

Plants, People, Planet, 2021
It is currently discussed whether the use of digital sequence information (DSI) on genetic resources would need to be subject to access and benefit‐sharing obligations, like the use of genetic resources.
M. Brink, T. Hintum
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Profitability improvement of a reservoir power station based on virtual reservoir bidding

Water Policy, 2021
Compared with a run-of-river power station, a reservoir power station (RPS), with the capacity of a seasonal regulation function and more, has the unique and irreplaceable attributes of its role in the power grid and society at large.
Yanmei Zhu, Weibin Huang, Shijun Chen, Guangwen Ma, Yue Liu   +4 more
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How much are benefit-sharing agreements worth to communities affected by mining?

, 2021
Benefit-sharing agreements (BSAs) determine how resource extraction companies and stakeholder communities share the economic value created by extractive activities.
Eric Adebayo, E. Werker
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A review of access and benefit‐sharing measures and literature in key aquaculture‐producing countries

Reviews in Aquaculture, 2021
Countries increasingly use access and benefit‐sharing laws as a tool for the conservation and sustainable use of biological resources and associated traditional knowledge.
F. Humphries, J. Benzie, C. Lawson, C. Morrison   +3 more
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Flobsion—Flexible Option with Benefit Sharing

International Journal of Financial Studies, 2019
Global environmental goals and the Paris agreement declared the need to avoid dangerous climate change by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases with an ultimate goal to transform today’s policies and reach climate neutrality before the end of the ...
Nikolay Khabarov, Ruben Lubowski, Andrey Krasovskii, Michael Obersteiner   +3 more
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Eco-creative nature-based solutions to transform urban coastlines, local coastal communities and enhance biodiversity through the lens of scientific and Indigenous knowledge

Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures, 2023
Increasing anthropogenic pressure on the sea and alteration of coastscapes challenge the functioning of marine ecosystems and long-term reliance on blue economies, especially for developing southern economies.
Francesca Porri, Boudina McConnachie, Kerry-Ann van der Walt, Rachel Wynberg, Paula Pattrick   +4 more
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