Ecosystem services

Brazilian Business And Ecosystem Services Partnership Launches

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 "WRI, the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS), and the Center for Sustainability Studies at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (GVces) launched the Brazilian Business and Ecosystem Services Partnership (PESE)&nbs

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http://insights.wri.org/pese_en/2012/05/brazilian-business-and-ecosystem-service...
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Author: 
Craig Hanson
2012
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May
Day: 
18
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World Resources Institute

Agreements for Transition: A Case in Madagascar

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 blog from ecoagricuture.org on working with local communities in Madagascar to stop illegal hunting and forest clearing with Conservation International's Conservation Steward's Program. 

 

for article, see link below. 

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http://blog.ecoagriculture.org/2012/05/17/csp/
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Author: 
Dr. Eduard Niesten
2012
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May
Day: 
17
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Ecoagriculture Blog

Towards operational payments for water ecosystem services in Tanzania: a case study from the Uluguru Mountains

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Sustaining the regular flow of water from

Link: 
http://192.38.112.111/pdf-reprints/Lopa_Oryx_2012.pdf
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Author: 
D O S T E U S L O P A , I D D I MW A N Y O K A , G E O R G E J A M B I Y A , T H A B I T MA S S O U D PA U L H A R R I S O N , MA R K E L L I S - J O N E S , T O M B L O M L E Y , B E R I A L E I M O N A , M E I N E V A N N O O R D W I J K and N E I L D . B U R G E S S
2012
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Flora and Fauna International
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Oryx
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34-44

Making Agriculture “Climate Sustainable”

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This blog from Ecoagriculture details using sustainable land managment practices in Western Kenya as a methodology for carbon sequestration. The goal being to improve smallholder farming techniques and productivity as well as increasing crops' resilience to climate change. This methodology involves the use of carbon credits and was developed by The World Banks BioCarbon Fund. 

 

For more, see link below. 

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http://blog.ecoagriculture.org/2012/05/16/newagriculturis/
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2012
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May
Day: 
16
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Ecoagriculture Blog

Ecosystem and Social Construction: an Interdisciplinary Case Study of the Shurkul Lake Landscape in Khorezm, Uzbekistan.

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Transformation of the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan from forested to agricultural landscapes resulted in the formation of hundreds of lakes, the dynamics of which are largely controlled by inputs from irrigation runoff waters. The importance of the ecological and socio-cultural dimensions of one of these lakes, Shurkul, is discussed in order to understand the connection between humans and their environment.

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http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss4/art20/
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Author: 
Lisa Oberkircher, Margaret Shanafield, Bashorat Ismailova and Laurel Saito
2011
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Dec
Journal title: 
Ecology and Society
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16
Issue: 
4

Cross-Scale Value Trade-Offs in Managing Social-Ecological Systems: The Politics of Scale in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania

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http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss4/art7/
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Author: 
Asim Zia, Paul Hirsch, Alexander Songorwa, David R. Mutekanga, Sheila O'Connor, Thomas McShane, Peter Brosius and Bryan Norton
2012
Month: 
Dec
Journal title: 
Ecology and Society
Volume: 
16
Issue: 
4

Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas

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Link: 
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/17/6473.full.pdf+html
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Author: 
José Iriartea, Mitchell J. Powerb, Stéphen Rostainc, Francis E. Mayled, Huw Jonesd, Jennifer Watlinga, Bronwen S. Whitneyd, and Doyle B. McKeye
2012
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Apr
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24
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PNAS
Volume: 
109
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6473- 6478
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17

Logging Concessions and Local Livelihoods in Cameroon: from Indifference to Alliance?

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http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol17/iss1/art7/
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Author: 
Guillaume Lescuyer, Samuel Assembe Mvondo, Julienne Nadège Essoungou, Vincent Toison, Jean-François Trébuchon and Nicolas Fauvet
2012
Journal title: 
Ecology and Society
Volume: 
17
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1