Nature conservation and sustainable development: towards an integrated and holistic strategy for project design and implementation

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Joske F.G. Bunders ◽  
Wander J. De Laat ◽  
Jacqueline E.W. Broerse
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jeffery W. Bentley ◽  
Diego Naziri ◽  
Gordon Prain ◽  
Enoch Kikulwe ◽  
Sarah Mayanja ◽  
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Author(s):  
Oswaldo Andres Vanegas Guillen ◽  
Javier Munoz Anton ◽  
Jose Benavides Maldonado ◽  
Johanna Zumba Gamboa

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Eugene L Chia ◽  
Augustin Corin B Bi Bitchick ◽  
Didier Hubert ◽  
Mirrande M Azai ◽  
Maxime M Nguemadji

The international community has acknowledged the critical role of results-based avoided deforestation and forest degradation, sustainable management of forest, conservation and enhancement of carbon stocks (REDD+) activities in curbing climate change. However, ensuring that REDD+ programs and projects deliver carbon and non-carbon results, remains a challenge. This paper analyses results-based determinants in REDD+ projects in Cameroon. Experiences from these projects are expected to inform the design and implementation of sustainable and effective REDD+ projects. It draws on data collected from feasibility study reports, project design documents, project evaluation reports and the opinions and perspectives of 86 REDD+ stakeholders. Findings indicate that projects employed a combination of incentives, disincentives and enabling measures towards achieving the intended REDD+ results. However, none of the projects proposed conditional incentives (direct payments) to land owners and users, the key innovation brought by REDD+. Despite the fact that these projects are branded REDD+ projects, they offer little or no experiences on the relationship between REDD+ payments and carbon and non-carbon outcomes. Achieving results from REDD+ projects depend on how effective choices are made by stakeholders in relation to the type of instruments/interventions and the location of projects, and the ability to make choices further depends on the technical capacity of stakeholders. Thus, the capacity of stakeholders to be involve in REDD+ project design and implementation should be strengthened, in order for them to better appraise the results-based requirements of REDD+.


Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández

This chapter aims to analyze a strategic transformational transition of green economy, green growth, and sustainable development from the institutional perspective. The analysis begins questioning the implications of the concepts and principles of green economy, green growth, and sustainable development from different perspectives in the transformational transition considering the investment, trade, and capacity building though the design and implementation of strategies and policies as well as measures from an institutional analysis. The methodology followed was the analytical review of the literature to derive inferences, challenges, proposals, and conclusions. It is concluded that the green economy concept addresses current challenges delivering economic development opportunities and multiple benefits for the welfare of all human beings.


Land ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Scheba

Governments, multilateral organisations, and international conservation NGOs increasingly frame nature conservation in terms that emphasise the importance of technically managing and economically valuing nature, and introducing markets for ecosystem services. New mechanisms, such as REDD+, have been incorporated in national-level policy reforms, and have been piloted and implemented in rural project settings across the Global South. By reflecting on my research on REDD+ implementation in two case study villages in Tanzania, the paper argues that the emergence and nature of market-based conservation are multi-faceted, complex, and more profoundly shaped by structural challenges than is commonly acknowledged. The paper identifies three particularly important challenges: the politics surrounding the establishment of community-based forest management; the mismatch between formal governance institutions and actual practices on the ground; and the fickleness of income from carbon sales and alternative livelihood opportunities. I argue that these challenges are not merely teething troubles, but they question fundamental assumptions of market-based conservation, more generally. I end with reference to better ideas for achieving sustainable development.


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-82
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Mirek ◽  
Zbigniew Witkowski

AbstractContemporary nature conservation is the subject of serious disputes, with biocentrists emphasising the superiority of the good of nature, while anthropocentrists believe that conservation space should also take account of the good of humankind. The dispute concerns two very important values perceived differently, and not resolvable within any scientifi c framework. The authors postulate a return to the Christian roots of our civilisation. It was God who gave human beings the goods He had created, expecting them to be used in line with His plan. The man who lost God’s plan, destroys the life of nature as well as his own. The postulated solution is the proper shaping of conscience, to condition biodiversity conservation in line with the idea of sustainable development.


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