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Gender and Forests
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

Gender and Forests

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-14
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests. Using a variety of methods and approaches, they build on a spectrum of theoretical perspectives to bring depth and breadth to the relevant issues and address timely and under-studied themes. Focusing particularly on tropical forests, the book presents both local case studies and global comparative studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as the US and Europe. The studies range from personal histories of elderly American women’s attitudes toward conservation, to a combined qualitative / quantitative international comparative study on REDD+, to a longitudinal examination of oil palm and gender roles over time in Kalimantan. Issues are examined across scales, from the household to the nation state and the global arena; and reach back to the past to inform present and future considerations. The collection will be of relevance to academics, researchers, policy makers and advocates with different levels of familiarity with gender issues in the field of forestry.

Living in and from the forests of Central Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Living in and from the forests of Central Africa

Living in and from the forests of Central Africa is intended first and foremost as a full-scale extension tool concerning NWFPs in Central Africa. It is a work on the groups who have always lived in these forests, forests that contribute to every aspect of their daily lives, both material and spiritual, and enable them to survive even in periods of extreme crisis.

New Instruments of Environmental Governance?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

New Instruments of Environmental Governance?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-11-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The use of so-called "new" environmental policy instruments such as eco-taxes, tradable permits, voluntary agreements and eco-labels has prompted widespread claims that these devices have replaced regulation. These papers offer a fresh perspective on the evolving tool-box of environmental policy.

Collaborative Governance of Tropical Landscapes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Collaborative Governance of Tropical Landscapes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-07-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book provides a novel approach to governance relating to biodiversity and human well-being in complex tropical landscapes, including forests and protected areas. It focuses attention at the interface between communities and the landscape level, building on interdisciplinary research conducted in five countries (Cameroon, Indonesia, Laos, Madagascar and Tanzania). In each country, the research was set within the framework of a major national policy thrust. The book improves our understanding of and ability to manage complex landscapes---mosaics of differing land uses---in a more adaptive and collaborative way that benefits both the environment and local communities. It includes both sing...

Wild Product Governance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 423

Wild Product Governance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-01-09
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-04-18
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  • Publisher: MDPI

Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) and other private governance instruments (e.g., Fair Trade, Forest Stewardship Council, Fair Wear Foundation, GLOBALGAP) are increasingly regulating global production processes and economic activities. VSS verify the compliance of products or production processes with sustainability standards. The importance of voluntary sustainability standards is now widely recognized. After being operational for more than two decades, they have established themselves as private governance instruments. This recognition is also exemplified by their integration in public regulatory approaches. Governments and international organizations are partnering with voluntary s...

Bricks, Mortar and Capacity Building
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Bricks, Mortar and Capacity Building

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The history of development cooperation has attracted very little research to date. This volume offers an innovative interpretation by considering the history of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, which has been in existence for over forty years now. Through SNV’s history, an analysis emerges of the role of the Netherlands in development cooperation and the attitudes of Dutch society towards it over the last fifty years as well as the changing ideas, practices and policies in development work more generally. The views and expectations of (former) SNV staff and those of local participants who were ultimately to benefit from the development activities were the focus of this historical research. This has resulted in a socio-cultural history ‘from below’ rather than a dry description of the organisation’s administrative changes and formal bureaucratic structures.

Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, Information and Traditional Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, Information and Traditional Knowledge

  • Categories: Law

Addressing the management of genetic resources, this book offers a new assessment of the contemporary Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) regime. Debates about ABS have moved on. The initial focus on the legal obligations established by international agreements like the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the form of obligations for collecting physical biological materials have now shifted into a far more complex series of disputes and challenges about the ways ABS should be implemented and enforced. These now cover a wide range of issues, including: digital sequence information, the repatriation of resources, technology transfer, traditional knowledge and cultural expressions...