Strengthening conceptual foundations: Analysing frameworks for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation research

Biodiversity , Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation : What constitutes good evidence ?

MNC’s and poverty alleviation: a conceptual framework

International development institutions appear to accept the role of business in global development challenges such as poverty alleviation. In 2003 the World Bank was reportedly ‘convinced’ that the private sector has a role to play in the fight against poverty (Wolfensohn 2003, p.19). The 2008 ‘Business and the Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs) report highlights a consensus within the United...

Biodiversity , Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation : What constitutes good evidence ? A Discussion Paper

Applying the ecosystem services concept to poverty alleviation : the need to disaggregate human well - being

TIM D AW 1 , 2 ∗, KATRI N A B ROWN 1 , SE R G I O RO S E N D O 1 , 3 AND ROBERT POMEROY 4 1School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK, 2Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, 3e-GEO, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Avenida de Berna, 26-C, 1069-061 Lisbon, Portugal, and 4...

Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China.

Recent expansion of the scale of human activities poses severe threats to Earth's life-support systems. Increasingly, protected areas (PAs) are expected to serve dual goals: protect biodiversity and secure ecosystem services. We report a nationwide assessment for China, quantifying the provision of threatened species habitat and four key regulating services-water retention, soil retention, sand...