Renewable Resources
Rapid Assessment of Protected Area Management Effectiveness in Four Countries
2003
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BioScience
Jamison Ervin
Assessing the management effectiveness of a protected area system can enable policymakers to develop strategic, systemwide responses to pervasive management problems. The World Wide Fund…
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation for Natural Resource Management and Research
1999
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International Institute for Environment and Development
Irene Guijt
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) have long been important for funding agencies to assess actual change against stated objectives, and thus to judge whether development assistance…
Protected Area Management Effectiveness Assessments in Europe: A Review of Application, Methods, and Results
2010
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Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN)
Christoph Nolte, Fiona Leverington, Anne Kettner, Melitta Marr, Greta Nielsen, Bastian Bomhard, Sue Stolton, Susanne StollKleemann, Marc Hockings
The European Study on protected are a management effectiveness (PAME) evaluation was conducted between May 2009 and March 2010. Its main purpose was to provide…
A Global Analysis of Protected Area Management Effectivenes
2010
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Environment Management
Fiona Leverington, Katia L. Costa, Helena Pavese, Allan Lisle, Marc Hockings
We compiled details of over 8000 assessments of protected area management effectiveness across the world and developed a method for analyzing results across diverse assessment…
Southern African Development Community Transfrontier Conservation Guidelines: The Establishment and Development of TFCA Initiatives Between SADC Member States
2014
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South Africa Development Community
Kevin Zunckel
Transfrontier Conservation and the establishment and development of Transfrontier Conservation Areas are recognised as a mechanism that is appropriate for delivery on a number of…
The Institutional Paradox of Community Based Wildlife Management
2004
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Project for Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
Richard Hasler
Over ten years of social and ecological monitoring and evaluation, planning effort, policy change, legislative reform, donor support and pilot design have taken place for…
Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators for GEF International Waters Projects
2002
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GEF Corporate Monitoring and Evaluation Team
Alfred Duda
Effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is increasingly recognized as an indispensable tool in project and program management. If done well, an M&E plan and the…
Multi-County Cooperation Around Shared Waters: Role of Monitoring and Evaluation
2004
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Global Environmental Change
Juha I. Uitto
Sustainable development of freshwater resources shared by two or more countries and reducing the risk of conflict between the riparians requires the development of effective…
Analysis of a Biorefinery with Multiple Raw Materials in the Context of Post-conflict Zones in Colombia: Plantain and Avocado Integration in the Montes de María
2021
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales
S. Piedrahita-Rodríguez, P. Peroza Piñeres, and C.A. Cardona-Alzate
This work addresses the techno-economic analysis for a multi-feedstock biorefinery system using plantain and avocado residues as raw materials. The experimental procedures were performed to…
Strategic Environmental Assessment and the Precautionary Principle in the Spatial Planning of Wind Farms – European Experience in Serbia
2021
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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Boško Josimovića, Aleksandar Cvjetićb, and Danilo Furundžić
Spatial determination planning is at an initial and very sensitive step in the development of wind farms. On one hand, it is important to maximize…
Survey Report on Elephant Movement, Human-Elephant Conflict Situation, and Possible Intervention Sites in and around Kutupalong Camp, Cox's Bazaar
2018
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International Union for the Conservation of Nature and UN High Commissioner for Refugees
IUCN Bangladesh, with support from UNHCR, started a project entitled ‘Biodiversity Conflict Mitigation around the Refugee Camp of Cox’s Bazar District’ with a view to…
Environmental Peacebuilding in South Asia: Establishing Consensus on Hydroelectric Projects in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Basin
2018
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Geoforum
Mirza Sadaqat Huda and Saleem H. Ali
Multilateral cooperation on hydroelectric dams in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin has been suggested by a number of academic studies as an economically viable and environmentally…
Effect of Protected Areas on Human Populations in the Context of Colombian Armed Conflict, 2005–2018
2021
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Sustainability Science
Roberto Rodríguez-Díaz, Víctor Javier Colino-Rabanal, Alejandra Gutierrez-López, and María José Blanco-Villegas
It is widely recognised that conservation policies in protected areas must also favour the development and viability of human populations. Although much research has focused…
A Hippo in the Room: Predicting the Persistence and Dispersion of an Invasive Mega-Vertebrate in Colombia, South America
2021
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Biological Conservation
Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez, Rafael A. Moreno-Arias, Josefa A. Velasco, Jorge W. Moreno-Bernal, Sebastián Restrepo, Elkin A. Noguera-Urbano, María P. Baptiste, Lina M. García-Loaiza, and Germán Jiménez
Biological invasions are a big concern due to their potential to impact ecosystems, as well as local people. The hippo Hippopotamus amphibius, native to Africa,…
Intrastate Environmental Peacebuilding: A Review of the Literature
2021
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World Development Journal
McKenzie F. Johnson, Luz Rodríguez, and Manuela Quijano Hoyos
As a discipline, environmental peacebuilding “integrates natural resource management in conflict prevention, mitigation, resolution, and recovery to build resilience in communities affected by conflict” (EnPAX…
Intertwined but Apart: Natural Heritage in Cultural Property Protection (Chapter in "Talking Tactics: Environmental Protection and Armed Conflicts")
2020
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environmental SCIENTIST
Emma Cunliffe
International attention has focused on the widespread damage to cultural heritage in recent armed conflicts, with conspicuous international effects. International aid to affected sites has…
Guide on Gender Mainstreaming: Environmental Management Projects
2015
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United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Gender equality is a goal in its own right, but it is also vital to the achievement of other development goals, such as poverty reduction…
A Casualty of Peace? Lessons on De-Militarizing Conservation in the Cordillera del Condor Corridor (Chapter in "Collateral Values of Natural Capital")
2019
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Springer
Saleem H. Ali
The resolution in 1998 of the armed conflict between Peru and Ecuador through environmental peace-building negotiations, creating a transboundary conservation area, have been heralded as…
Five Years of Fighting in Eastern Ukraine: Environmental Issues Depicted in Infographics [Infographic]
2020
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Zoï Environmental Network
“Five Years of Fighting in Eastern Ukraine” is a set of infographics which demonstrate the dynamics and trends of environmental change since the onset of…
The Dark Side of Environmental Peacebuilding
2020
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World Development
Tobias Ide
Environmental peacebuilding refers to efforts aimed at building more peaceful relations through environmental cooperation, natural resource management, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. It…
Civilian Science: The Potential of Participatory Environmental Monitoring in Areas Affected by Armed Conflicts
2019
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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Doug Weir, Dan McQuillian, and Robert A. Francis
Legal and policy initiatives to address the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts and their impact on people, ecosystems and sustainable development are highly dependent on…
Leveraging Co-benefits between Gender Equality and Climate Action for Sustainable Development: Mainstreaming Gender Considerations in Climate Change Projects
2016
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UN Women
In September 2015, world leaders from 193 nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the United Nations General Assembly. While some have hailed…
Conflict-Sensitive Resource and Asset Management (COSERAM)
2018
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Philippines, especially Mindanao, is marked by political and social unrest, often leading to armed violence. The conflict-affected areas are rich in natural resources – such…
Vegetation Monitoring in Refugee-Hosting Areas in South Sudan
2018
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Applied Geography
Reik Leiterer, Urs Bloesch, Hendrik Wulf, Sebastian Eugster, and Philip Claudio Joerg
Mass population displacements put additional stress on the ecosystems and often lead to conflicts with the host communities, especially in the case of large refugee…
Conflict-Sensitive Conservation in the Maiko-Tanya-Kahuzi-Biega Landscape
2017
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International Institute for Sustainable Development
Alec Crawford
Conflict-sensitive conservation (CSC) is conservation programming and implementation that takes into account the causes and impacts of conflict and the actors involved in order to…
Conflict Timber: Dimensions of the Problem in Asia and Africa
2004
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USAID
Jamie Thomson and Ramzy Kanaan
Conflict timber—conflict financed or sustained through the harvest and sale of timber (Type 1), or conflict emerging as a result of competition over timber or…
"We Have No Voice for That": Land Rights, Power, and Gender in Rural Sierra Leone
2015
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Journal of Human Rights
Gearoid Millar
Much attention has recently focused on the lease of land throughout the global south to nations and corporations in the global north. It is argued…
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment of the Palestinian–Israeli Water Situation
2014
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Marwan Haddad
This paper examines and discusses the prolonged Palestinian–Israeli water conflict, taking into consideration recent formal and informal water negotiations and emphasising the future of water-based…
Contestation and Reconstruction: Natural Capital and Post-Conflict Development in Borderland Regions
2014
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Stability: International Journal of Security and Development
Roger Zetter and Brad Blitz
Though often remote and underdeveloped, borderlands are contested territories. The incorporation of borderlands into the post-conflict state highlights many important land-related paradigms, including the conversion…
Nexus Meets Crisis: A Review of Conflict, Natural Resources and the Humanitarian Response in Darfur with Reference to the Water Energy Food Nexus
2015
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International Journal of Water Resources Development
Brendan Bromwich
Darfur has been widely used as a case study by both those arguing for causality between environmental scarcity and war and those disputing it. This…