Noise policy - Integration with climate and natural resource policies

On integration of policies for climate and global change

Currently envisaged mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions will be insufficient to appreciably limit climate change and its impacts. Adaptation holds the promise of ameliorating the impacts on a small subset of systems being affected. There is no question that both will be needed. However, climate change is only part of a broader multi-stress setting of global through to local changes. ...

Sustainability Indicators for Natural Resource Management & Policy

Linking scientific knowledge with policy action in Natural Resource Management

If science is to help in enhancing the stability of forest margins, reducing poverty and securing long-term conservation of forest resources, it has to communicate effectively with the two other knowledge action pairs (Fig 1), as well as with the many shades of opinion within their group. A persisting challenge is the quest for better integration of the knowledge action pairs of three main actors.

Pollution Control Policies and Natural Resource Dynamics: A Theoretical Analysis

Policies for the management of natural resources and the resources themselves interact to form complex systems. In this paper, we present a highly simplified model that can be used to study the general features of those systems. The model has three state variables, the abundance of the resource, environmental pollution, and the capital devoted to pollution control. We analyze it graphically usi...

Integration of Natural Resource Management in the Primary Education Curriculum in Kenya

The Farmers of the Future (FoF) initiative implemented a programme of integrating natural resources management in the basic education curriculum. The purpose of the study was to document activities and determine the effects of FoF programme on primary school learners’ perceptions towards natural resources management by comparing learners involved in the FoF programme and those not involved. Fur...