Women Managing Farms and Forests in South Asia By Bina Agarwal For millions of rural women and their families in developing countries, rights to agricultural land and forest resources are critical determinants of their well-being
The University of Twente developed a computer-supported classroom game that illustrates various phenomena that take place when farmers compete over water. With whatever group you play, it’s always fun and a great learning experience. Download
Rideau is once again raising the recognition industry bar by answering the need for companies to reduce their carbon footprint to net zero. Montreal and New York City. April 4, 2011. Rideau Recognition Solutions, today
The March 2011 edition of the Globalization and Sustainable Development Newsletter is available online. Click here to access. Find out more about Kevin Gallagher’s book The Dragon in the Room and the efforts to reform
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Mar 10, 2011 / ) — Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, president of sustainability think tank Global Footprint Network and co-founder of the Ecological Footprint concept and methodology is among five recipients
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION The Economics Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its 6th Annual International Symposium in Athens, Greece, 25-28 July 2011. The registration fee
Damage Estimates and the Social Cost of Carbon: The Need for Change The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a measure of the damage caused by an incremental ton of CO2 emissions, used in cost-benefit
Testimony on EPA’s ‘Coal Combustion Residuals Proposed Rule’ The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has set out to regulate the disposal of coal combustion residues, which U.S. power plants produce in large quantities – 133 million
We have posted a sustainability tour on our website. This tour offers each passenger an introduction to the main aspects of development towards sustainability. Just get on the bus and be guided along the highlights. You
Conference Date: November 15 – 17, 2010 in Vienna, Austria Call for Contributions Ester Boserup was one of the pioneers of an integrated theoretical approach to questions of development and sustainability. 2010 marks the centennial
Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute announced today that it will award its annual Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought to Bina Agarwal of Delhi University in India and Daniel Kahneman
The first edition of Introduction to Ecological Economics, originally published in 1997 by St. Lucie Press, has recently been put up on the Encyclopedia of Earth. We are now preparing to publish a second edition,
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) has joined the Water Footprint Network as its hundredth partner. Partners of the network subscribe to the need to have a globally shared water footprint standard. A shared standard
To see the conditions of the announcement of the Premi Ramon Margalef d’Ecologia 2010 click here. To propose a candidate, you may e-mail prm@gencat.cat or visit our website www.gencat.cat/premiramonmargalef/eng/.
February 9, 2010 RELEASE: Global Campaign to Protect and Restore Old Forests Gaining Traction Campaigns to end industrial primary rainforest logging in Papua New Guinea and Madagascar based upon ecological science, and meant to end
