IDRC brings researchers to the World Water Congress
IDRC Climate Change and Water research is being presented at the World Water Congress being held in Edinburgh next week, and we're inviting you to join the conversation! Eleven of its climate…
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CASCADE Project as part of the National Forum: Climate Smart Territories: an approach to land management and adaptation to climate change.
Project coordinator Barbara Viguera, represented the CASCADE project in the National Forum: Climate Smart Territories: an approach to land management and adaptation to climate change, held May 6 in La…
Making community-based conservation work - a lesson from Zimbabwe
Local communities are getting involved more and more in conservation projects in and around protected areas in southern Africa, as a way of complementing government-led or private sector efforts to…
Putting a value to urban green spaces
Cities in sub-Saharan Africa are growing fast, and with that, many are losing their urban green spaces. Placing a value on such urban spaces can motivate policymakers to prioritise conservation or…
Water, electricity and ‘nudging’ households to change behaviour: a South African study
What is the best way to nudge people towards using water and electricity more efficiently? This question is central to a study which kicks off this year in two municipalities in South Africa, with the…
EfD Ethiopia to be revamped into a new center
Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC) is a new research center established in the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) in partnership with the Environment for Development…
EfD Kenya holds Research Day
EfD Kenya recently held it's 2015 Research Day on 26th February at Hillpark Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. EfD Kenya and KIPPRA presented the organisations' ongoing research in the water, extractive…
Greener Industry If Environmental Authorities Change Strategy
Fewer industrial firms would violate environmental legislation and a higher number would adopt cleaner technologies if environmental authorities would focus their monitoring efforts on companies with…
Fourth Workshop on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Third Short Course to Policy Makers organized by Chilean EfD Center
The EfD Chilean Center, Research Nucleus in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Concepción, organized for the fourth time, a discussion workshop on the design of public…
EfD- CA Center Director Francisco Alpízar release an opinion article on the commercialization of shark fins from Costa Rica
Center director Francisco Alpízar and Chairman of the Board of the association “Forever Costa Rica” released an opinion article titled: “The sharks, the finning and the public interest”. On March 2015…