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Author :Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher :Food & Agriculture Org. ISBN 13 :9789251032404 Total Pages :68 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (324 download)
Book Synopsis Debt-for-nature Swaps to Promote Natural Resource Conservation by : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Download or read book Debt-for-nature Swaps to Promote Natural Resource Conservation written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Natural Endowments, Financing Resource Conservation for Development by : World Resources Institute
Download or read book Natural Endowments, Financing Resource Conservation for Development written by World Resources Institute and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Debt Swaps for Sustainable Development by : Dr. Jürgen Kaiser
Download or read book Debt Swaps for Sustainable Development written by Dr. Jürgen Kaiser and published by Iucn. This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is aimed at helping IUCN's members to understand the scope and mechanisms of debt conversion and to spot opportunities for their own action in this important field.
Book Synopsis Debt Swaps, Development, and Environment by : Maria Clara Couto Soares
Download or read book Debt Swaps, Development, and Environment written by Maria Clara Couto Soares and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Debt-for-nature Exchanges and Biosphere Reserves by : Peter Dogsé
Download or read book Debt-for-nature Exchanges and Biosphere Reserves written by Peter Dogsé and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Structure of an Environmental Transaction by : Robert T. Deacon
Download or read book The Structure of an Environmental Transaction written by Robert T. Deacon and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tourism in National Parks and Protected Areas by : Paul F. J. Eagles
Download or read book Tourism in National Parks and Protected Areas written by Paul F. J. Eagles and published by CABI. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the state of the art of tourism planning and management in national parks and protected areas. It also provides guidelines for best practice in tourism operations. Other objectives are to: Describe case studies and guidelines that contribute to conservation of biological diversity; consider the role of local communities within or near these areas; outline the development of tourism infrastructure and services; discuss visitor management; provide guidelines to enhance the quality of the tourism experience. The focus is global and the book will appeal to both academics and practitioners.
Book Synopsis Swapping Debt for Nature by : Ann Patrick Hawkins
Download or read book Swapping Debt for Nature written by Ann Patrick Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Debt for Nature Swaps by : Stein Hansen
Download or read book Debt for Nature Swaps written by Stein Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Debt-for-Nature Initiatives and the Tropical Forest Conservation Act by :
Download or read book Debt-for-Nature Initiatives and the Tropical Forest Conservation Act written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1980s, extensive foreign debt and degraded natural resources in developing nations led to the creation of debt-for-nature initiatives that reduced debt obligations, allowed for debt repayments in local currency as opposed to hard currency, and generated funds for the environment. These initiatives, called debt-for-nature swaps, typically involved restructuring, reducing, or buying a portion of a developing country's outstanding debt, with a percentage of proceeds (in local currency) being used to support conservation programs within the debtor country. Most early transactions involved debt owed to commercial banks and were administered by non-governmental conservation organizations and referred to as three-party swaps. Since 1987, three-party transactions have generated more than an estimated $117 million in local currency for conservation projects, as a result of the purchase of approximately $168 million in debt (face value) for $49 million. Other debt-for-nature initiatives involved official (public) debt and were administered by creditor governments directly with debtor governments (termed bilateral swaps). In the early 1990s, the United States restructured, and in one case sold, debt equivalent to a face value of nearly $1 billion owed by Latin American countries; these transactions were authorized by Congress as part of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative (EAI), which broadened the scope of debt swaps to include a number of social goals. Nearly $178 million in local currency for environmental, natural resource, health protection, and child development projects within debtor countries was generated from these swaps. The model for debt-for-nature initiatives, outlined in the EAI, was expanded in the Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA) to include countries around the world with tropical forests. Under this program, debt can be restructured in eligible countries, and funds generated from the transactions are used to support programs to conserve tropical forests within the debtor country. Since 1998, $82.6 million has been used under the TFCA to restructure loan agreements in eleven countries, and nearly $136.5 million in local currency will be generated in the next 12-26 years for tropical forest conservation projects. The TFCA was authorized for appropriations under P.L. 108-323 until FY2007. This law also authorized funding to conduct audits and evaluations of agreements in place and allow for the principal on debt agreements to be treated by the debt-for-nature transaction. (Currently interest on debts are treated in most agreements.) Debt-for-nature transactions are generally viewed as a success by conservation organizations and debtor governments because of the funds generated for conservation efforts. The appeal of debt-for-nature transactions has been tempered in recent years, however, by higher debt prices on secondary markets and lower appropriations. As a result, fewer transactions have taken place. This report provides a description of debt-for-nature transactions and a summary of the Tropical Forest Conservation Act and will be updated as developments warrant.
Book Synopsis Financing Nature-Based Solutions by : Robert C. Brears
Download or read book Financing Nature-Based Solutions written by Robert C. Brears and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new research on innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement nature-based solutions (NBS) at various scales and in different contexts. Despite knowledge of the multiple benefits NBS provide, a key barrier to their wide-spread adoption is a lack of knowledge over their financing, in particular, who should pay for an NBS and how it can be financed. The book explores a variety of public, private, and blended finance models and their applicability in developing NBS across terrestrial and marine ecosystems, involving multiple stakeholders, and in jurisdictions of varying climates and income levels. Furthermore, the book provides case studies of the innovative financing of NBS with best practices identified. This book is of interest to environmental planners, resource conservation managers, policymakers, international companies and organizations, environmental NGOs, researchers, and graduate and undergraduate students interested in NBS.
Book Synopsis Fresh Tracks in the Forest: Assessing Incipient Payments for Environmental Services Initiatives in Bolivia by : Nina Robertson
Download or read book Fresh Tracks in the Forest: Assessing Incipient Payments for Environmental Services Initiatives in Bolivia written by Nina Robertson and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are being considered worldwide with great interest and expectation. Proposals to create agreements in which beneficiaries of environmental services pay landowners directly for the provision or protection of these services are innovative and promising. But what real PES experiences are actually out there? This work assesses a range of PES or PES-type experiences in one country, Bolivia, in the fields of carbon sequestration, protection of watershed services, biodiversity and aesthetic landscape values. The report concludes that while none of the generally young initiatives adhere fully to the principle of PES as developed in the theoretical literature, many experiment with some of the relevant PES mechanisms. Protection of watersheds and landscape values are the most common types, though the implementing intermediaries often have underlying biodiversity-protection goals. Main obstacles to PES implementation include ideological resistance against the PES concept, the difficulty of building trust between buyers and sellers, and limited willingness to pay on behalf of service users. During their relatively short lifetime, basically all initiatives had been successful in making service sellers (PES recipients) better off in economic terms, while the effectiveness in achieving environmental objectives and securing positive social impacts so far remained more variable. In some cases, redesigning these initiatives to bring them closer to the full PES principles could also enable them to more effectively achieve positive environmental and livelihood outcomes.
Book Synopsis Why Integrated Conservation and Development Projects May Achieve Neither Goal by : Ralph David Simpson
Download or read book Why Integrated Conservation and Development Projects May Achieve Neither Goal written by Ralph David Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Economic Values and the Natural World by : David William Pearce
Download or read book Economic Values and the Natural World written by David William Pearce and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author looks at the challenge facing agriculture today and details the concepts and characteristics of alternative, sustainable agricultural practices. Empirical evidence from a diverse range of agro-ecological and community setting show the impact of more sustainable practices. In addition existing policy frameworks and institutional processes are considered and alternatives, which are known to work, are presented
Book Synopsis Sustainable Financing of Protected Areas by : Lucy Emerton
Download or read book Sustainable Financing of Protected Areas written by Lucy Emerton and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become clear during recent global deliberations on biodiversity conservation that achieving Protected Area (PA) financial sustainability will require major changes in the way that PA funding is conceptualized, captured and used. With many, if not most, PAs facing funding crises, both in terms of the amount of funds available and how those are used, there is an urgent need to expand and diversify PA financial portfolios, and to ensure that funding reaches the groups and activities essential for biodiversity conservation. A range of innovative financing mechanisms have been developed and implemented to increase funding for PAs. This document aims to review and assess the status of a variety of these mechanisms, the major obstacles and opportunities for their implementation, and the potential for improvement.
Book Synopsis Funding Options to Support Sustainable Development and Conservation in Pacific Island Countries by : Percy Hylton C. Lucas
Download or read book Funding Options to Support Sustainable Development and Conservation in Pacific Island Countries written by Percy Hylton C. Lucas and published by South Pacific Regional Environment Program. This book was released on 1996 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis People and Environment by : Gareth Jones
Download or read book People and Environment written by Gareth Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People and Physical Environment, A Global Approach provides an introduction to the main areas of environmental concern for geographers, environmental scientists and planners at the beginning of the twenty-first century. These include: Pollution of the atmosphere and its impact on our climate; The exploitation of the oceans; Management and supply of fresh water; Degradation of the land, and Biodiversity, and the need to maintain genetic diversity. The book argues that our knowledge and understanding of the environment is now so great that we can predict with considerable accuracy where the skills of science and technology need to be focussed in order to prevent severe environmental damage from occurring. Achieving successful management of the environment has become dependent upon active participation of a society prepared to pay for a high quality of life and the willingness of our elected politicians to legislate and enforce the very highest standards of environmental management. This book will be essential reading for students of geography, environmental studies/science and land use planners and will also contribute valuable information for climatology, biogeography, hydrology, land economy and forestry students.
