New on Poverty Environment Net - August 2010
This is a list of online publications recently added to Poverty Environment Net's index of documents. Read the summaries and visit the sites to see what's new in environmental management and poverty reduction.
- Inhibition of Amazon Deforestation and Fire by Parks and Indigenous Lands
- Indigenous People and Environmental Politics
- Indigenous people and co-management: implications for conflict management
- Avoiding New Poverty: Mining-Induced Displacement and Resettlement
- Environmental resettlement and development, on the steppes of Inner Mongolia, PRC
- Conservation–related Resettlement in Central Africa: Environmental and Social Risks
- Does Adaptive Management of Natural Resources Enhance Resilience to Climate Change?
- Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change in least developed countries (LDCs)
- Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change
- Maps and spatial information technologies (Geographical Information Systems) in health and environment decision-making
- Promoting the Development of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America
- Rural resettlement: past lessons for the Three Gorges Project
- Coasts of life: helping tropical seaside communities cope with climate change
- Global warming: ending fuel subsidies could cut greenhouse gas emissions 10%, says OECD
- ADB Supports Wastewater and Lake Management Project in PRC's Wuhan
- Agriculture: Higher average farm prices expected, food security concerns persist, say OECD and FAO
- Green Economy: Mayors, Ministers Call for Joint Action at OECD Roundtable
- Focused Action: Priorities for Addressing Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific
- Reduced Deforestation in the Amazon: GEF merges biodiversity and climate change mitigation
- UK contributes to more effective Global Environment Facility
- Aquaponics: The Genesis of an Industry in Barbados
- Food for the Future: Conserving Crop Wild Relatives
- African Water Facility Grant for Ghana Project
- Guatemala makes strides in protecting Maya Biosphere Reserve with IDB support
- IDB more than doubles pipeline of projects financed by the Global Environmental Facility
- President Moreno visits Chile, reassures support for reconstruction plans in earthquake-affected areas
- IDB study suggests large natural disasters unlikely to affect long-term growth
- State of the Environment South Africa - Maps
- Environmental Security for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA)
- Food Insecurity, Poverty and Environment Global GIS Database (FGGD)
- Natural resources path to poverty reduction - diagramme
- Freshwater biodiversity and poverty in eastern Africa
- World poverty distribution
- Relationship between biodiversity and poverty in Africa
- SD-PAMs Database
- IGES Enviroscope
- IEA Address Climate Change Policies and Measures Database
- EarthTrends Searchable Database
- ADB Asia Regional Integration Center - Regional Public Goods - Climate Change Database
Agricultural Outlook 2010-2019
Posted on: 17 August 2010 - 2:59pmFAO
agriculture
Asia-Pacific
Information and Communication Products
Natural Resources
The Outlook brings together the commodity, policy and country expertise of both organisations, providing an assessment of agricultural market prospects for production, consumption, trade, stocks and prices of the included commodities.
What They Carried Away from Pakistan's Floods
Posted on: 10 August 2010 - 5:36pmAsia-Pacific
Multimedia Resources
Environmental Vulnerability
natural disasters
Residents salvage all they can from the country's rising waters. A photo slideshow from Time.com.
Food Insecurity, Poverty and Environment Global GIS Database (FGGD)
Posted on: 26 July 2010 - 4:59pmTools
Global-Multiregion
food
agriculture
FAO
As part of the Poverty Mapping Project, FAO prepared a Food Insecurity, Poverty and Environment Global GIS Database (FGGD) for global analysis of food insecurity and poverty in relation to environment.
Relationship between biodiversity and poverty in Africa
Posted on: 23 July 2010 - 4:03pmTools
Africa
biodiversity
UNEP
This map may be used to show areas in which biodiversity is threatened in relation to poverty on a continental scale. Areas where high percentage of underweight children - used as a proxy for poverty - coincide with a high occurrence of amphibian species and endemic bird areas - a proxy for biodiversity - may indicate areas in which poor people likely have no other choice than the unsustainable extraction of resources, in turn threatening biodiversity .
Inhibition of Amazon Deforestation and Fire by Parks and Indigenous Lands
Posted on: 20 July 2010 - 6:45pmAnalytical Studies
Americas
protected areas
forests
deforestation
Conservation scientists generally agree that many types of protected areas will be needed to protect tropical forests. But little is known of the comparative performance of inhabited and uninhabited reserves in slowing the most extreme form of forest disturbance: conversion to agriculture. We used satellite-based maps of land cover and fire occurrence in the Brazilian Amazon to compare the performance of large (>10,000 ha) uninhabited (parks) and inhabited (indigenous lands, extractive reserves, and national forests) reserves. Reserves significantly reduced both deforestation and fire.
Download the document (476 KB, PDF)
http://whrc.org
Conservation–related Resettlement in Central Africa: Environmental and Social Risks
Posted on: 19 July 2010 - 3:30pmAnalytical Studies
Africa
conservation
biodiversity
protected areas
resettlement
Since the Rio Conference of 1992, which declared the conservation of biodiversity and the creation of national parks to be priorities, resettlements resulting from conservation projects in Central Africa have been on the increase, as people living inside protected areas are relocated. Hardly any of these resettlements have been successful. There has been resistance to moving in the first place, and even returns to former villages inside the national parks. Resettlement is still the most common way to deal with people who happen to live in African national parks, but the risks which arise from these resettlements have led some scientists to rethink their position.
This article focuses on the Congo River Basin. It reviews the only ‘official’ relocation programme in the region (Korup National Park, Cameroon) and evaluates different approaches of national parks in Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo (Brazzaville) and Gabon. The author uses the Impoverishment Risk and Reconstruction model introduced by Cernea to evaluate the risks faced by the resettled populations, and to elaborate some social and environmental guidelines to mitigate them.
Download the article (299 KB, PDF)
http://people.ucsc.edu
Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change
Posted on: 13 July 2010 - 4:30pmAnalytical Studies
Global-Multiregion
climate change
adaptation
Future changes in climate pose significant challenges for society, not the least of which is how best to adapt to observed and potential future impacts of these changes to which the world is already committed. Adaptation is a dynamic social process: the ability of societies to adapt is determined, in part, by the ability to act collectively. This article reviews emerging perspectives on collective action and social capital and argues that insights from these areas inform the nature of adaptive capacity and normative prescriptions of policies of adaptation.
Download the paper (218 KB, PDF)
http://www.uea.ac.uk
Coasts of life: helping tropical seaside communities cope with climate change
Posted on: 12 July 2010 - 3:26pmEnvironmental Vulnerability
Information and Communication Products
Asia-Pacific
coastal management
climate change
IUCN
Climate change is hitting coastal areas hard: rises in sea levels, ocean acidification, extreme events, bleaching and death of coral are all climate impacts which will require adjustments socially and economically. A new IUCN report, published today, provides practical guidance for coastal communities and industries to adapt to climate change.
As talks under the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) are currently ongoing in Bonn, the IUCN report “A Framework for Social Adaptation to Climate Change: Sustaining Tropical Coastal Communities and Industries” is a guide to assess the vulnerability of coastal communities and provides economic and social tools to build resilience and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
ADB Asia Regional Integration Center - Regional Public Goods - Climate Change Database
Posted on: 9 July 2010 - 2:53pmTools
Asia-Pacific
climate change
policy
ADB
Data are gathered from ADB developing member countries’ Initial National Communications and/or National Action Programs on Climate Change. The quantity and quality of information entered are based on these national reports. Thus, coverage is not necessarily consistent across countries.
http://aric.adb.org/climate-change.php




