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  1. Library Resource

    Key issue background paper

    Informes e investigaciones
    Octubre, 2023
    Global

    Struggles to control valuable land, natural and mineral resources are at the heart of many conflicts around the world. Many have their roots in colonial conquest and post-colonial resource grabbing by colluding local and global elites. Land conflicts frequently entail clashes of values and meanings associated with land. Conflict risk is rising with climate change and the race to control critical mineral and water resources. Millions of people face loss of livelihoods and displacement.

  2. Library Resource
    Conflict and mediation in high altitude rangeland property rights in Bhutan
    Documentos de conferencias e informes
    Julio, 2017
    Bhután

    Semi-nomadic yak herders of Bhutan depend on high altitude rangelands and yaks for their livelihoods. Conflicts over high altitude rangelands among herders can lead to sub-optimal management with negative impacts on the environment, livelihoods and socio-economic well-being of semi-nomadic yak herders.

  3. Library Resource
    Assessing the effectiveness of a protected area network: a case study of Bhutan
    Publicación revisada por pares
    Marzo, 2018
    Bhután

    An assessment of management effectiveness was carried out for all the protected areas in the Kingdom of Bhutan. During 2014-2016 the Royal Government of Bhutan developed a custom-made tool for assessing management effectiveness: the Bhutan Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool Plus (Bhutan METT +). This was implemented in Bhutan’s 10 protected areas and one botanical park, and the results were verified through field trips and expert reviews.

  4. Library Resource
    Forest Crimes in Cambodia

    Rings of illegality in Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary

    Informes e investigaciones
    Marzo, 2021
    Camboya

    Cambodia has suffered some of the highest rates of deforestation (measured as a percentage of forest cover) of any country since the 1970s – and rates have been increasing significantly in the past decade. Even the country’s so-called protected areas have been severely impacted, despite supposedly being safeguarded under Cambodian law.

  5. Library Resource
    Serial Offender: Vietnam’s continued imports of illegal Cambodian timber
    Informes e investigaciones
    Diciembre, 2018
    Camboya, Viet Nam

    Vietnam, which has a long history of theft of timber from neighbouring Laos and Cambodia, recently initialled a timber trade agreement with the European Union. This will see Vietnam implement legislation to address imports of illegally harvested or traded timber, in return for timber exports to the EU being deemed to comply with the requirements of the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR).

  6. Library Resource

    Volume 10 Issue 3

    Publicación revisada por pares
    Marzo, 2021
    Estados Unidos de América

    In November 2017, over 15,000 scientists issued a second letter to humanity that outlines how we are “jeopardizing our future” by failing to protect key ecological systems [...]

  7. Library Resource

    Volume 10 Issue 3

    Publicación revisada por pares
    Marzo, 2021
    Estonia, Rusia

    This study explores how local communities reflect on institutional frameworks and protected area governance in two national parks (NPs) with similar nature values in Estonia and Russia, and aims to understand the role of value systems in these interactions. It is based on 50 in-depth interviews with a broad range of stakeholders, and a desktop analysis of relevant regulation and plans.

  8. Library Resource

    Volume 10 Issue 3

    Publicación revisada por pares
    Marzo, 2021
    El Salvador

    The expansion of urban areas around the world and the application of the sustainability paradigm to tourism discourses has favored an increase in the number of people visiting natural protected areas (NPAs) in their leisure time. While tourism is desired to boost the economy of destinations, mismanagement can bring negative consequences for social–ecological systems, particularly in post-conflict rural scenarios.

  9. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Enero, 2021
    Brasil, Estados Unidos de América

    Strong evidence indicates that the Brazilian government is taking advantage of the confusion caused by the Covid-19 pandemic to speed-up a wide-ranging environmental setback. We present a timeline of policies and acts taken by the current federal administration against the environment during the pandemic and discuss their consequences. The unprecedented amount of measures affecting environmental policies is especially intended to weaken deforestation control and transparency of environmental agencies, and allow the expansion of harmful activities (e.g.

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