What do Prince Charles and Leonardo DiCaprio have in common? At least one thing: the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Meet its Director of Science, Alexandre Antonelli, a man passionate about…
Officials from Uganda’s Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) participate in a program that provides knowledge on how to design and enforce policy instruments to achieve a transition towards a…
Environmental compensation (EC) aims at addressing environmental losses due to development projects and involves a need to compare development losses with compensation gains using relevant metrics. A conceptual procedure for computing no net loss is formulated and used as a point of departure for a comparative analysis of metrics used by five Swedish municipalities as a part of their EC implementation in the spatial planning context of detailed development plans.
This publication explains how market-based instruments can be utilized to improve air quality, water, and waste management in Asia.
"Nigeria will soon understand the impact of economic activities on its environment and have regular information for decision making," promised Mahmood Abubakar Muhammad, Nigeria's Minister of…
Rapid urbanization is a global trend. Ambitions to build cities out of a recession and overheated housing markets are factors that can accentuate that trend. But when densification is seen as the…
A new study has identified ocean finance as key to overcome challenges associated with ocean conservation and sustainability, and move towards a sustainable ocean economy that, as the High-Level Panel…
• Avoiding 1% of catchment's forest loss reduces chemicals use by 0.026% in Costa Rica.
• Improving the turbidity by 1% decreases 0.005% aluminum sulfate needed at the water plants.
• The value of water purification service by forests is USD 9.5 per hectare per year.
• The contribution of forest (per ha) becomes larger as the size of the catchment decreases.
Both in the United States and in Europe there is ongoing work on reversing habitat fragmentation and the attendant loss in biodiversity in river systems caused by hydropower and other developments. Fish ladders and other measures are being introduced to restore the connectivity in river systems. In this paper, we set up a theoretical model to investigate what the conditions are for such an investment to be socially profitable.