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Sustainable Use and Management of Natural Resources

Background The EU sixth environment action programme (6EAP) expressly calls for 'breaking the linkages between economic growth and resource use'. This report, which contributes to the EEA's five-year report 'The European environment — State and outlook 2005', was prepared in recognition of the importance of the sustainable use and management of natural resources on the policy agenda. Given the ...

Jan. 4, 2006

By European Environment Agency (EEA)

Water resources management

Managing regional or national water resources demands the integration of patterns and processes of both natural and social systems. This is essential to achieve the optimum interaction of man and nature since every aspect of water use and disposal impinges on ecosystems to a greater or lesser extent. Sustainability is the key issue: how can sustainable yields by abstraction from rivers, ...

Jan. 24, 2012

By IWA Publishing

Sustainable natural resource management through multi-regional cooperation

Management of natural resources has clear implications for local, national, and supranational territorial units because of diverse and fundamental implications linked to how and where they are managed. There is a strong need to go beyond local, regional or even national administrative borders, redesigning new geographical areas and starting cross-border cooperative actions for more sustainable ...

Jan. 25, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

Natural resources management in South Australia – regional and collaborative approaches

Experiences with three approaches intended to achieve increasing levels of regional and collaborative engagement – Ministerial water advisory committees, Catchment Water Management Boards and Natural Resources Management Boards – are examined over the period from the 1970s to early 2014. Attention focuses on two tensions: (1) whether to have a system-wide or regional focus and (2) ...

Aug. 5, 2015

By IWA Publishing

House of commons committee on natural resources

Introduction The Canadian Water and Wastewater Association represents the interests of municipal water and wastewater services in respect of federal or national legislation, policies and programs. More than 24 million Canadians receive drinking water from municipal services and discharge wastewater to those services. The services are provided on a not-for-profit, public service basis. Revenues ...

Mar. 22, 2010

By Canadian Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA)

Integrating water resources management

The intention of this book is to showcase some of the most interesting aspects of IWRM in relation to the development and adoption of strategies and methodologies. Other related publications provide additional insights, see for example, the STRIVER website (www.striver.no) and the edited collection by Gooch and Stålnacke, (2010) on the ...

Dec. 5, 2011

By IWA Publishing

Mongolia - Environment and natural resource management socio-economic survey (ENRMSS 2010)

Mongolia has very significant natural resources and a large part of the population is dependent on them for their daily living. The impact of the state of the environment on the living standards of herders is obvious, but also Mongolians living in the capital Ulaanbaatar have learned that air pollution, especially in winter, and other environmental problems have a deep impact on their living ...

Jan. 8, 2013

By IWA Publishing

Climate change issues: challenges for Natural Resource Management in Bangladesh - a way forward

This study aimed to understand the climate change issues in Bangladesh by focusing on the specific operational guidance to Natural Resource Management (NRM) over time. The specific justification is used to figure out the factors that are responsible. To have an effective plan and guideline, this study has emphasised on some direct required actions and alternative options for long-run measures. ...

Dec. 31, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

Climate change issues: challenges for Natural Resource Management in Bangladesh – a way forward

This study aimed to understand the climate change issues in Bangladesh by focusing on the specific operational guidance to Natural Resource Management (NRM) over time. The specific justification is used to figure out the factors that are responsible. To have an effective plan and guideline, this study has emphasised on some direct required actions and alternative options for long-run measures. ...

Jun. 17, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Collaborating for sustainability: strategic knowledge networks, natural resource management and regional development

Many firms have turned to strategies based on collaborative initiatives with stakeholders to generate the valuable knowledge resources needed to be successful in today's global economy. Firms in natural resource-based industries such as mining, energy and forestry, which typically provide the backbone for regional development in their production locations, have become leaders in establishing ...

Jun. 3, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Outlines of a multicommodity and multilateral integrated cooperation agreement for sustainable management of natural resources

In this work, by resuming and developing researches carried out in the 70s and 80s, a potential solution is outlined, where the complex issues of natural resources limitedness, the environmental imbalances and the economic and social imbalances among industrialised and non-industrialised countries are put at the first place of the international community's choices, able to deeply modify the ...

Dec. 16, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Indigenous knowledge and culture on natural resources management in the Salween canyon, Yunnan Province, China

This research tries to find out some indigenous knowledge and culture on natural resources management in the Salween canyon, Yunnan Province, China. The indigenous people studied are some minority nationalities including Lisu, Nu, Dulong, Tibetan and Bai. Methodology mainly includes field research, the use of key informants, secondary data, unstructured interview and ocular observation. Findings ...

Jun. 29, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Microfinance, social capital and natural resource management systems: conceptual issues and empirical evidences

This paper attempts to trace the causes and consequences of natural resources' degradation as stated from various reviews. The paper also attempts to link poverty, environmental degradation and conceptual issues involved in recovery of natural resources through building social capital. This is a review of various papers on microfinance programmes undertaken in natural resource management ...

Jun. 4, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers

Climate Change, Various Adaptation Efforts are Underway at Key Natural Resource Management Agencies

This report examines (1) steps key federal natural resource management agencies—Forest Service, NOAA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and Bureau of Land Management—have taken since 2007 to address adaptation and (2) ...

Jul. 7, 2013

By IWA Publishing

EEB proposal for a European Strategy on Sustainable Use and Management of Natural Resources (version 2)

The Sixth Community Environment Action Programme (6EAP) states that “there is a limited capacity of the planet to meet the increasing demand for resources and to absorb the emissions and waste resulting from their use and there is evidence that the existing demand exceeds the carrying capacity of the environment in several cases.” It emphasises that what is needed among the principals and ...

Aug. 31, 2004

By European Environmental Bureau

Traditional biodiversity conservation and natural resource management system of some tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, India

India is one of the 17 mega biodiversity countries in the world having two hotspots- the Western Ghats and the Eastern Himalayas, based on species rarity and endemism. Arunachal Pradesh state of India in the Eastern Himalaya is among 200 globally important eco-regions. The state is home to 26 major tribes and about 110 ethnic groups. The majority of the mountainous population of Arunachal Pradesh ...

Oct. 25, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

Enhancing carbon stocks and reducing CO2 emissions in agriculture and natural resource management projects : toolkit

There is global interest in promoting mitigation and adaptation in agriculture, forest, and other land-use (AFOLU) sectors to address the twin goals of climate change and sustainable development. This guideline deals with how to enhance carbon stocks in general in all land-based projects and its specific relationship with agriculture productivity. It outlines specific steps and procedures that ...

Jan. 3, 2013

By IWA Publishing

Encouraging Americans to Reuse, Recycle, and Conserve Natural Resources

When Congress passed the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) in 1976, it charged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with ensuring the safe disposal and management of municipal and industrial waste, and it broadly championed a new ethic of resource conservation. During the first two decades of RCRA, EPA, in partnership with the states, focused primarily on establishing a ...

Feb. 1, 2006

By Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA)

From Conflict to Peacebuilding - The role of natural resources and the environment

Since 1990 at least eighteen violent conflicts have been fuelled by the exploitation of natural resources. In fact, recent research suggests that over the last sixty years at least forty percent of all intrastate conflicts have a link to natural resources. Civil wars such as those in Liberia, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo have centred on “high-value” resources like timber, diamonds, ...

Jan. 31, 2009

By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Building local democracy through natural resource interventions

This policy brief provides natural resource policy makers and practitioners with an approach for evaluating how their policies and projects can support the emergence and consolidation of local democracy. In practice, everything but democratic decentralization has taken place in the name of ‘democratic decentralization’ reforms: privatization, administrative deconcentration, NGOization, selective ...

Nov. 24, 2008

By World Resources Institute WRI

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