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The story of REDD+ in Nigeria: A critical view of the participation of forest-dependent communities (2024)
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The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programme aims to reduce carbon emissions and improve forest degradation in developing countries. This paper analyses the extent of the involvement of forest-dependent communiti... Read More about The story of REDD+ in Nigeria: A critical view of the participation of forest-dependent communities.

Transformative governance of biodiversity: Insights for sustainable development (2021)
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While there is much debate on transformative change among academics and policymakers, the discussion on how to govern such change is still in its infancy. This article argues that transformative governance is needed to enable the transformative chang... Read More about Transformative governance of biodiversity: Insights for sustainable development.

Why protect ancient woodland in the UK? Rethinking the ecosystem approach (2020)
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Sites of ancient woodland in the United Kingdom (UK) are diminishing rapidly and the multi-functional forest management system with its fragmented approach fails effectively to protect such woodland. In the face of reports on the destruction of ancie... Read More about Why protect ancient woodland in the UK? Rethinking the ecosystem approach.

Investments' role in ecosystem degradation—Response (2020)
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Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change (2019)
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The human impact on life on Earth has increased sharply since the 1970s, driven by the demands of a growing population with rising average per capita income. Nature is currently supplying more materials than ever before, but this has come at the high... Read More about Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change.

Payments for Ecosystem Services in Sustainable Mangrove Forest Management in Bangladesh (2017)
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© 2017 Cambridge University Press. In the context of sustainable development, both developed and developing countries are implementing policies that encourage economic growth, environmental protection and social well-being in resource decisions. Acco... Read More about Payments for Ecosystem Services in Sustainable Mangrove Forest Management in Bangladesh.

Review Editors' Introduction (2015)
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Integrated Water Resource Management, Public Participation and the 'Rainbow Nation' (2014)
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© 2013 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. This article provides varied examples of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and public participation interaction in South Africa. It critically examines the inadequate application of IW... Read More about Integrated Water Resource Management, Public Participation and the 'Rainbow Nation'.

Corporate responsibility in tackling environmental harm: Lost in the regulatory maze? (2014)
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Environmental harm and corporate responsibility are increasingly being linked. While a number of approaches and techniques such as market instruments and enforcement are explored in the environmental, criminal and human rights law at the internationa... Read More about Corporate responsibility in tackling environmental harm: Lost in the regulatory maze?.

Unacknowledged and unwanted? Environmental refugees in search of legal status (2012)
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Environmental displacement is a global phenomenon affecting millions of people. Due to climate change and the corresponding sea-level rise, it is estimated that about eight million of indigenous people of Pacific Islands will be forced to settle else... Read More about Unacknowledged and unwanted? Environmental refugees in search of legal status.

Ecosystem services and human well-being in a globalized world: Assessing the role of law (2009)
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There is no denying the close linkage between ecosystem services and human well-being. Human well-being is dependent on the sustainable management of ecosystem services. With economic globalization and free trade, there is an increasing demand for th... Read More about Ecosystem services and human well-being in a globalized world: Assessing the role of law.

Book Review - The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (2008)
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This is a book review on The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law by D.Bodansky, J. Brunnee and E. Hey (eds), Oxford, 2008.

Protection of traditional knowledge and human rights obligations: The status of discussion in international organisations (2007)
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Traditional knowledge and human rights are two fields that have largely developed separately despite being interrelated. A number of international institutions are pursuing different priorities related to the protection of traditional knowledge. The... Read More about Protection of traditional knowledge and human rights obligations: The status of discussion in international organisations.

Linking human rights, development and environment: Experiences from litigation in South Asia (2007)
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Despite having several procedural routes to bring actions in the court, public interest litigation seems to be the often-used tool used by the community groups in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to protect the environment. In recent years, the decisio... Read More about Linking human rights, development and environment: Experiences from litigation in South Asia.

Country Report: Bangladesh (2005)
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This is an annual environmental status report on Bangladesh.

Book review - Natural Assets: Democratizing environmental ownership (2005)
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This is a Book Review on Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership by James K. Boyce, Barry G Shelley (eds.), Island Press, 2003.

Implementation of multilateral environmental agreements and integrated water resource management: What does national co-ordination achieve? (2005)
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At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, the international community agreed to develop integrated water resource management and water efficiency plans by 2005. Despite the slow progress in implementing this target, the... Read More about Implementation of multilateral environmental agreements and integrated water resource management: What does national co-ordination achieve?.

Country Report: Bangladesh (2004)
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This is an annual environmental status report on Bangladesh.

Book Review - Environmental Negotiator Handbook (2004)
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This is a book review on Environmental Negotiator Handbook by Alexandre Timoshenko, Kluwer, 2003.

Justice and equity in adaptation (2004)
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