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Linking poverty and the environment: participatory community-based approaches, games of imperfect information and the Convention on Biological Diversity

open access: yesMeridiano 47, 2017
This paper discusses the linkages between the agendas of poverty alleviation and of environmental protection through initiatives adopting participatory community-based approaches.
Carlos Potiara Castro
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Assessing multiple values of nature in National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans

open access: yesPeople and Nature
Around the world, people express a variety of values of nature based on how they relate and interact with it. These values of nature, broadly classified as instrumental, intrinsic, and relational values, underlie environmental policy and decision‐making ...
Ranjini Murali   +10 more
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Protected Areas and Human Displacement: Improving the Interface between Policy and Practice

open access: yesConservation & Society, 2009
Despite a growing and increasingly sophisticated set of international policy guidance and norms governing issues of equity and the rights of indigenous and local people, conservationists continue to face moral and practical dilemmas in the application of
Krueger Linda
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The Convention on Biological Diversity: An Institutionalist Perspective of the Debates

open access: yesJournal of Economic Issues, 2002
Biodiversity came out as a global issue from the mid 1980s, under the pressure of converging forces: the threatening increase in species extinction and the changes in the theory as well as in the practice of nature conservation, but also the expansion of genetic engineering and the intrusion of industrial interests into areas from which they had been ...
/Boisvert, Valérie, Caron, A.
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Conserved areas: Obligations, challenges, risks and opportunities for successful implementation of other effective area‐based conservation measures (OECMs) in France

open access: yesPeople and Nature
Other effective area‐based conservation measures (OECMs) are a promising tool to conserve biodiversity in human‐dominated land‐ and seascapes, but their implementation still raises some challenges.
Anna Stier   +3 more
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Solutions for sustainable mariculture - Avoiding the adverse effects of mariculture on biological diversity

open access: yes, 2004
The Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Mariculture was established by the Conference of the Parties in adopting the programme of work on marine and coastal biological diversity at its fourth meeting (decision IV/5, annex).
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
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Towards the development of legal protection of biodiversity in Rwanda: An appraisal

open access: yes, 2014
This study examines the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the context of its implementation in Rwanda. It firstly examines the relevant rights and obligations which country parties have under the CBD; it then examines the current law in Rwanda ...
Turamwishimiye, Marie Rose
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New Leadership Needed: The Convention on Biological Diversity

open access: yes, 2016
The Convention on Biological Diversity endorses an international effort to protect and sustain Earth\u27s biological resources. The 20th century marks the most massive global extinction in Earth\u27s history, one that is inextricably connected to the ...
Klein, Catherine
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