Resultados de búsqueda - "scholar"

Multi-stakeholder forums and the promise of more equitable and sustainable land and resource use: perspectives from Brazil, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Peru por Sarmiento Barletti, J.P., Larson, A.M.

“…The seven papers assess the potential of MSFs for more equitable decision-making in regard to land and resource use sustainability, and engage with scholarly debates over these forms of participation. …”
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Rights-based approaches and Indigenous peoples and local communities: Findings from a literature review por Sarmiento Barletti, J.P., Prouchet, L., Larson, A.M.

“…In this review, our primary interest is the conception, conceptualization, and implementation of RBAs in forest-based initiatives, but we reviewed the wider scholarly and gray literature on RBAs in development, conservation, and climate action initiatives.…”
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The effectiveness of cash and cash plus interventions on livelihoods outcomes: Evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis por Leight, Jessica, Hirvonen, Kalle, Zafar, Sarim

“…Over the last 20 years, a burgeoning scholarly literature has analyzed the effects of cash transfer and cash plus interventions in a wide range of contexts and using a range of empirical designs. …”
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Mineral Resources and Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Case of Ecological Fallacy por De Luca, Giacomo, Maystadt, Jean-François, Sekeris, Petros G., Ulimwengu, John M., Folledo, Renato

“…To avoid these adverse events, scholars have attempted to identify the roots of civil wars. …”
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Inception: the creation of an international water management institute, 1969-1984 por Lenton, Roberto

“…This report could also be of relevance to a broader audience interested in learning more about how innovative international institutions tackling emerging global challenges are conceived and brought into being, as well as to scholars of international development. This report has been prepared by Roberto Lenton, a former Director General of IWMI and, more recently, Chair of the Institute’s Board of Governors.…”
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Non-timber forest products and trade in eastern Borneo por Sellato, B.

“…The author also presents for the northern part ofthe Indonesian province of East Kalimantan a history of trade in these products based on various written (Dutch colonial archives, official Indonesian statistics, local scholarly texts) and oral (interviews with nomadic Punan people, Dayak swidden farmers, Malays in the coastalports, Chinese and Arab traders, middlemen disseminating in land products on international markets) sources. …”
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Process-focused analysis in transboundary water governance research por Suhardiman, Diana, Giordano, Mark

“…This article argues such an approach might improve our understanding of transboundary water outcomes and suggests new focus on how key actors form networks of alliances and shape decision-making landscapes at multiple governance levels and arenas. From a scholarly perspective, it brings to light the blurred boundary between state and non-state actors, as derived from a better understanding of the elusive links between actors and organisations; it unravels additional layers of complexity in the hydro-hegemony concept and bends the rigid notion of power asymmetry, towards the subtleties of power relations and interplays in transboundary decision-making processes.…”
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Pre-capitalist reproduction on the Nepal Tarai: semi-feudal agriculture in an era of globalisation por Sugden, Fraser

“…There is a tendency for Marxist scholars to assume the inevitable “dominance” of capitalism over older modes of production. …”
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Toward climate-smart agriculture in West Africa: a review of climate change impacts, adaptation strategies and policy developments for the livestock, fishery and crop production se... por Zougmoré, Robert B., Partey, Samuel T., Ouédraogo, Mathieu, Omitoyin, Bamidele, Thomas, Timothy S., Ayantunde, Augustine A., Ericksen, Polly J., Said, Mohammed Yahya, Jalloh, Abdulai

“…This paper was synthesized from several scholarly literature and aimed at providing up-to-date information on climate change impacts, adaptation strategies, policies and institu- tional mechanisms that each agriculture subsector had put in place in dealing with climate change and its related issues in West Africa. …”
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Participatory, multi-criteria evaluation methods as a means to increase the legitimacy and sustainability of land use planning processes. The case of the Chaco Region in Salta, Arg... por Seghezzo, Lucas, Venencia, Cristian, Buliubasich, Emiliana Catalina, Iribarnegaray, Martín Alejandro, Volante, Jose Norberto

“…Results illustrate the contrasting perceptions of different stakeholders (government officials, social and environmental non-governmental organizations, large-scale agricultural producers, and scholars) on the intensity of land use conflicts in the study area. …”
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REDD+ as a Public Policy Dilemma: Understanding Conflict and Cooperation in the Design of Conservation Incentives por Conceição, H.R. da, Börner, J., Wunder, Sven

“…These findings are especially relevant for scholars studying the design, implementation and impacts of incentive-based conservation policies, and for practitioners aiming to enhance policy efficiency.…”
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Modelling approaches for climate risk and adaptation in the context of sustainable intensification por Diancoumba, Madina, Akinseye, Folorunso M., Faye, Awa, Emanuel, Joseph Jacob, Webber, Heidi, Faye, Aliou, Worou, Nadine

“…The summer school was designed to provide Master, doctoral and postdoc scholars with a broad overview of the system’s analysis, best practices in model application climate change impact assessments, as well as emerging applications and challenges for crop modeling to support sustainable intensification of smallholder farming systems. …”
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Responding to Environmental Issues through Adaptive Collaborative Management: From Forest Communities to Global Actors por Pierce Colfer, Carol J., Prabhu, Ravi

“…This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in the fields of conservation, forest management, community development, natural resource management and development studies more broadly.…”
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Beyond the Formal-Informal Dichotomy: Towards Accommodating Diverse Milk-Collection Practices in the Economic Middle of Kenya’s Dairy Sector por Vernooij, Vera, Vellema, Sietze R., Crane, Todd A.

“…These practices were enabled and sustained by the diverse options available for each aspect of milk collection, and by the capacity of collectors to accommodate variety in their practices. We invite scholars and practitioners to conduct deeper explorations of how to accommodate events in practice to enhance the success of ambitions relating to FNS and climate change through pathways of intensification and commercialisation.…”
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Presentation for The Political Economy of Food System Transformation: Pathways to Progress in a Polarized World por Resnick, Danielle, Gómez, Eduardo, Barrett, Christopher B., Swinnen, Johan

“…The Political Economy of Food System Transformation, a new IFPRI and Oxford University publication edited by Danielle Resnick and Johan Swinnen, tackles this complex subject by integrating insights from a global set of interdisciplinary scholars. Their work encompasses food system policy issues relevant to diets and environmental sustainability at the local, national, and international levels. …”
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Open strategizing for developing smart city food system: stakeholder inclusion in practice por Mahdad, M., Minh, Thai Thi, Dinh, T. T., Vanhaverbeke, W.

“…The positive impact of stakeholder engagement (SE) in smart city development initiatives has received notable scholarly attention over the past decade. Researchers of stakeholder engagement have investigated various aspects of the engagement process from different theoretical perspectives, yet the complexity and dynamism of inclusion, especially at the societal level and in the context of smart city development, continue to inspire more research. …”
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The European Union’s and United States of America’s Non–Tariff Measures: Impacts on African Exports por Kareem, Olayinka Idowu

“…There are differentials in the conclusion of scholars as to what undermines Africa’s export flows to the European Union (EU) and United State of America (USA). …”
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“It will be a desert”: Extreme weather and the effects of climate catastrophe on vulnerable riparian spaces in Nairobi, Kenya por Howland, Olivia

“…This study contributes much needed human voices to a growing body of literature led by indigenous Kenyan scholars, calling for urgent structural level action to conserve urban riparian zones for the benefit of human and non-human actors.…”
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The private sector's role in agricultural extension systems: Potential and limitations por Feder, Gershon, Birner, Regina, Anderson, Jock R.

“…It may be of interest to development scholars and practitioners.…”
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Critical success factors of participatory community planning with geospatial digital participatory platforms por Atzmanstorfer, Karl, Bartling, Mona, Haltofova, Barbora, Zurita Arthos, Leo, Grubinger Preiner, Judith, Eitzinger, Anton

“…We analyze the results of a digital questionnaire that we shared with a selected group of expert scholars and community stakeholders. We then contextualize this feedback with our experiences from the piloting phase and commercial roll-out of the ‘Bürgercockpit’-application for participatory community planning within the Austrian Agenda21-framework. …”
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