Search Results - subject:"resource degradation"

Why smallholders stop engaging in forest activities: The role of in-migration in livelihood transitions in forested landscapes of southwestern Ethiopia

Groth, Juliane; Seppelt, Ralf; Sakdapolrak, Patrick; … - In: Ecology & Society 28 (2023) 1, pp. --

Forest decline and degradation are particularly high in the tropics and pose a risk to those who depend on forest resources. The in-migration of smallholders to forest frontiers can fuel transitions of livelihoods and land and resource use. However, the conditions under which in-migration...

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The Palgrave Handbook of ESG and Corporate Governance

Câmara, Paulo (ed.); Morais, Filipe (ed.) - 2022

industry leaders themselves. Climate change, general environmental and natural resource degradation, widespread inequalities …

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Poverty reduction through promoting alternative livelihoods : implications for marginal drylands

Adhikari, Bhim - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 25 (2013) 7, pp. 947-967

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Technology, policy and population growth impacts on economic performance, nutrient flows and soil erosion at watershed level: the case of Ginchi in Ethiopia

Okumu, B N; Russel, N; Jabbar, Mohammad A.; Colman, D; … - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), … - 2004

A dynamic bio-economic model is used to show that, without technological and policy intervention, soil nutrient balances, income and nutrition could not be substantially or sustainably improved in a highland area of Ethiopia. Although cash incomes could rise from a very low base by more than 50%...

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Technology, Policy And Population Growth Impacts On Economic Performance,Nutrient Flows And Soil Erosion At Watershed Level: The Case Of Ginchi In Ethiopia

Okumu, B N; Russel, N; Jabbar, Mohammad A.; Colman, D; … - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), … - 2004

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The environmental impacts of regional disparity in population and wealth distribution in Nigeria

Madu, Ignatius - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 11 (2009) 2, pp. 265-276

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Links between economic liberalization and rural resource degradation in the developing regions

Barbier, Edward B. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 23 (2000) 3

This paper examines evidence of the effects of economic liberalization and globalization on rural resource degradation … that there may be direct and indirect impacts on rural resource degradation. The direct impacts may occur as increased … indirect effects of globalization and agroindustrialization on rural resource degradation both generally, plus through …

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TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY IMPACTS ON ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, NUTRIENT FLOWS AND SOIL EROSION AT WATERSHED LEVEL:THE CASE OF GINCHI IN ETHIOPIA

Okumu, B N; Jabbar, Mohammad A.; Colman, D; Russel, N; … - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), … - 2000

A dynamic bio-economic model is used to examine natural resource use, the resulting nutrient balances and economic outcomes in a poor country under a range of technological and policy intervention scenarios. With limited technological intervention over a twelve year planning period, incomes rise...

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The environmental regime in developing countries

Jha, Raghbendra; Whalley, John - 1999

This paper discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental regime) along with the policy responses, if any, commonly used to deal with these. Included are the effects of industrial emissions, air and water quality impacts of untreated...

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Women empowerment for biodiversity conservation through self help groups: a case from Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala, India

Pillai, K. Rajasekharan; Suchintha, B. - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 5 (2006) 4, pp. 338-355

patrolling the forests to restrict illegal stem cutting, grazing, and other natural resource degradation process. In this paper …

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