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Sustainability as a dialogue of values: Challenges to the sociology of development
Type: Journal Article
Even in an increasingly polarized climate of global policy-making, the ideal of “sustainable development” retains currency across a remarkably broad swath of the political spectrum in debating alternative scenarios for the ...
Policy analysis and environmental services at different scales: Asking the right questions
Type: Journal Article
In this volume, we seek a common understanding of three environmental problems linked to land use change in Southeast Asia: smoke pollution, degradation of biodiversity functions, and degradation of watershed functions. ...
Community Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam ( by Dara O'Rourke)
Type: Journal Article
In Community-Driven Regulation, Dara O’Rourke focuses his attention on the other end of the spectrum of civic action, the local level. O’Rourke offers a detailed set of cases from Vietnam that demonstrate how pressure from ...
Problem formulation and options assessment: science-guided deliberation in environmental risk assessment of transgenic fish
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter provides an overview of problem formulation and options assessment (PFOA) for scientists, risk assessment specialists, industry representatives and other interested public stakeholders who may be involved in ...
Wetlands management in Cambodia: socioeconomic, ecological, and policy perspectives
Type: Report
The papers in this volume were initially prepared for a workshop organized in April 2001 in Siem Reap, Cambodia, under the auspices of the project, " Legal and institutional framework and economic valuation of resources ...
Community Management by Decree? : lessons from Cambodia's fisheries reform
Type: Journal Article
The Cambodian government introduced a dramatic reform in 2001 that reduced the allocation of commercial fishing lots in favor of local community access. Hailed by community activists, the policy shift nevertheless ...
Diagnosis and management of small-scale fisheries in developing countries
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries (SSF) make important but undervalued contributions to the economies of some of the world’s poorest countries. They also provide much of the animal protein needed by societies in which food security ...
Millenium Ecosystem Assessment. 2005. Global Assessment Report: Policy Responses.
Type: Book Chapter
Fresh water can make a greater contribution to human well-being if society improves the design and management of water resource infrastructure, establishes more inclusive governance and integrated approaches to water ...
Policy analysis and environmental problems at different scales: asking the right questions
Type: Journal Article
In this volume, we seek a common understanding of three environmental problems linked to land use change in Southeast Asia: smoke pollution, degradation of biodiversity functions, and degradation of watershed functions. ...