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Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects
… to grey infrastructure systems in order to improve efficiency. Thus, this guide takes a pragmatic approach to … infrastructures to serve growing demands for water, energy and food. This work is challenged by the negative … Services: ecosystem services that describe the material or energy outputs from ecosystems. They include food, water and …
The economic value of wild resources in Senegal : A preliminary evaluation of non-timber forest products, game and freshwater fisheries
… Participatory Management of Traditional and Substitution Energy Program QUID Unified Questionnaire for Development … the value of goods from the wild (i.e. consumption goods, energy sources, output for sale and construction materials) … could include: Technological options for increasing the efficiency of transformation and/or the conservation of …
Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring
… To help realize the contribution of forests to sustainable energy and food security, policy-makers require more and … outlooks and the broader context, such as demand for food, energy and wood fibre and employment and rural development … approach Principle 11: Feasibility including cost-efficiency Data principles Principle 12: A well-defined data …
Assessing the international forest regime
… forest products geared to the increase of productivity and efficiency in downstream processing,46 as well as the … initiated pursuant to Article 6 will probably be in the energy sector, some countries with economies in transition, … issues are currently dealt with mainly by its Sustainable Energy and Environment Division.45 UNDP spends approximately …
Assessing forest landscape restoration opportunities at the national level: A guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)
… priorities, such as rural development, food security or energy supply. Many of these types of policies tend to ignore … key national development targets relating to forest cover, energy production, access to clean water, food production, … access to clean water Agri production to 2600 kcal/day Energy Economy Water Food Phase 1: Preparation and planning …
Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles
… now being issued, generated not surprisingly in renewable energy projects. Forestry projects, too, are gaining … have special features compared with CDM projects in the energy or industry sector. Sink projects usually involve … also when compared to CDM energy-related activities (e.g. efficiency improvements in existing fossil fuel-power plants …
Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening
… necessity product supply (agricultural products, wood energy and water), erosion, sand encroachment and floods. On … Some of the benefits deriving from urban forests are energy conservation through transpirational cooling (Akbari … process has important implications for household energy consumption patterns in general and wood energy use in …
Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)
… complication and bureaucratization: “Simplicity and efficiency of regulations often go hand in hand.”53 [F]ewer … In addition, a lack of affordable alternative sources of energy is forcing the rural poor in many countries to become … issues such as the promotion of alternative sources of energy, namely by providing rural areas with solar and wind …
Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.
… 6.1.7.4 NWFP Motor Vehicles Ordinance 1965 (Missing) 6.1.8 Energy and Hydroelectric Power 726 6.1.8.1 Sarhad Development … or pollution. Although NWFP legislation governing the energy and hydel sector is relatively recent, the law deals … district, vary or amalgamate the grouping of offices for efficiency and effectiveness by notification in the Official …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… mechanisms for the allocation of leases and greater efficiency of resource use. A significant amount of revenue … billion people around the world have no access to regular energy sources. More than one billion in developing countries … water, of adequate sanitary conditions and of a regular energy source represent a heavy burden on women who must work …