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Progress on national biodiversity indicator reporting and prospects for filling indicator gaps in Southeast Asia

open access: yesEnvironmental and Sustainability Indicators, 2020
With tremendous biodiversity but increasing threats, Southeast Asia faces challenges in meeting its commitments to the Convention on Biological Diversity’s 2020 Aichi Targets.
Xuemei Han   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Biodiversity Quality: a paradigm for biodiversity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The internationally accepted definition of biodiversity creates difficulty in measuring difference and change. The authors suggest that well-sampled data can be used to generate a range of numerical indices reflecting species group characteristics ...
Alan Feest   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Horses as Sources of Proprietary Information: Commercialization, Conservation, and Compensation Pursuant to the Convention on Biological Diversity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Horses indigenous to East and Southeast (E/SE) Asia, including native, landrace, feral, and wild populations, embody valuable genetic diversity. Conservation efforts for animals have largely been driven by humane altruism, with little consideration for ...
Kowalski, Stanley, McClory, Haley
core   +1 more source

From Corporate Social Responsibility to Accountability Mechanisms:The Role of the Convention on Biological Diversity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper traces the progressive shift at the international level from purely voluntary approaches (corporate social responsibility or CSR) towards accountability mechanisms to ensure the environmentally sound conduct of private entities.
E Brugger   +15 more
core   +2 more sources

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
doaj  

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