Essays about: "Benefit-sharing"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 27 essays containing the word Benefit-sharing.

1. 11. Another Dam Development Project? Development-forced Displacement and Resettlement in Nepal

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Tobias Fast; [2013]
   Keywords : Resettlement; displacement; development; Nepal; compensation; benefit sharing; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In Nepal, dams have been targeted as the most viable means of energy generation. However, dam projects often necessitate the relocation and resettlement of people to make way for reservoirs; processes that may pose great challenges for affected people, given that their homes, land, and livelihoods are lost to some extent. READ MORE

3. 12. Social Safeguards for REDD+ in Mexico’s Watershed Management Program

   University essay from Institutionen för geovetenskaper; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Philippe Youssef Garduño Diaz; [2012]
   Keywords : Sustainable development; environmental governance; REDD ; watershed management; Chiapas;

   Abstract : Case studies on environmental governance are essential to improve comprehension on howto implement international agreements. This study focuses on seven social safeguards relevant toREDD+. The existence of these social safeguards is examined in Mexico’s watershed managementprogram in La Sierra Madre and La Costa of Chiapas. READ MORE

4. 13. Access and benefit sharing: a valid instrument for compensation?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Lizzie Sagrelius; [2012]
   Keywords : judicial literacy; traditional knowledge; institutions; inequality; misallocations; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Patents on traditional knowledge and the issue of biopiracy has been a debated issue since the Uruguay Round in the early 1990s. In order to handle this problem, the United Nations established the Convention on Biological Diversity and a subsidiary working group on Access and Benefit Sharing. READ MORE

5. 14. Sustainable Business - Integrating Business and Community Needs in Devoll Hydropower Project, Albania

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Sara Persson; [2011]
   Keywords : Sustainable Business; CSR; Dam Project; Business Case; Externalities; Stakeholder Theory; Community Investments; Benefit Sharing Mechanisms; Sustainable Livelihoods Framework; Capital Assets; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : In the ongoing debate about how we can create a sustainable society, the role of business is negotiated and reshaped with the concept of ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ (CSR) being central to the discussion. This debate steams from past experiences of business externalities, where costs of business transactions have been offloaded on society. READ MORE

6. 15. Maximizing Local Acceptance through Benefit Sharing

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Evan Koebel; [2011]
   Keywords : Wind power; social acceptance; local acceptance; public acceptance; benefit sharing; benefit sharing mechanisms; acceptance strategy;

   Abstract : Local opposition has been widely recognized as a potentially powerful barrier to the successfuldevelopment of wind power projects. As a result, there has been increasing pressure put on industryproponents to adopt comprehensive strategies aimed at increasing local acceptance. READ MORE