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Improving access to forest resources - Experiences in informal tenure reform from IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy

… Improving access to forest resources Experiences in informal tenure … de Silva, Andrew Ingles, Gill Shepherd (2012). Improved Access to Forest Resources: Experience in informal tenure … forest products (NTFPs) within the park (including the right to establish beehives within the park). There has also …
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Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies

… of local populations; prohibited or restricted access to livelihood; break-up of communal lands; collapse of … upon available technologies, on institutions regulating access to resources as well as on decision-making systems … defines a cumulative gradation between rights: • Access right: right to access a resource for any use not involving …
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Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas

… but also adjacent lowlands (Edmund Barrow). (Top right) The introduction of modern technologies has led to the … mountain people in developing countries have little or no access to educational opportunities that could improve their … the need to extract raw materials and to provide military access to frontier areas – which are often along mountain …
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Depend on nature: Ecosystem services supporting human livelihoods

… equity, in natural resource management • Improve women’s access to natural resources and participation in … by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water Target 11: By 2020, to have … not only be granted access and use rights but also the right to trade in the natural resource commodity that they …
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Integrating Economics into Resource and Environmental Management Some Recent Experiences in the Pacific

… and services. This has generally necessitated increasing access to higher incomes such that there has been an … this ignores that communities ultimately need some access to natural resources to meet basic needs in a changing … needs to be marketed outside of the community. Finding the right balance between these two extremes is a difficult task. …
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A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes

… quantifying nature stand out as an imposing barrier. Is it right to put a dollar price on biodiversity? Is it desirable? … hotspots using five key socioeconomic poverty indicators (access to water, undernourishment, potential population … scenic beauty breakdown. The lack of property rights and access to finance are highlighted as main factors limiting …
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Energy, Ecosystems and livelihoods: Understanding linkages in the face of climate change impacts

… (MDGs). Currently, 1.6 billion people in the world lack access to electricity and over 2.5 billion people depend on … and heating (WEO 2006). These people have a legitimate right to, and need for increased energy services which are … are enhanced through the provision of lighting and access to alternative forms of communication such as radio, …
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Waste management for human health and livelihood

… into all relevant policies. Man has the fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life, … sanitation. Reducing half the proportion of people without access to improved sanitation by 2015 is one of the …
25 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste