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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Responsible Research
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Lucio Brotto,Davide Pettenella,Paolo Cerutti,Romain Pirard
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786023870356
Investments in industrial-scale planted forests have grown exponentially in recent years and are included into investment portfolios for various reasons (e.g. diversification, risk mitigation, attractive returns). The rapid growth of planted forests may incur negative social and environmental impacts. Thus, investment companies and fund managers are increasingly interested in using sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) tools (e.g. standards, guidelines, and codes of conduct). However, a classification system for SRI tools in the field of planted forests still lacks consensus.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Responsible Research
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Mia Overall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Environmental responsibility
ISBN : OCLC:964690704
Natural resources sectors such as mining, oil, gas, hydro, and forestry plantations are an integral component of most developing economies in the Asia-Pacific region, thereby making them attractive investment sectors for both transnational corporations (TNCs) and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Foreign direct investment in natural resources has the potential to bring about significant economic growth and development, but corruption and poor fiscal management have often led to greater inequality. More responsible business practices are necessary for companies to avoid these problems and contribute to poverty reduction and social development at the local level. Businesses and policy makers share the responsibility for ensuring the adoption and effective implementation of these practices. On the policy front, the main challenges are to maximize economic benefits at both national and local levels, while ensuring that the environment and human rights are well protected. Meanwhile, businesses have the responsibility to adopt and implement international standards of responsible business practice to help them avoid the negative impacts from their operations. A number of international standards, guidelines and initiatives have emerged to help businesses engage in more sustainable and socially responsible investment that contributes to inclusive and sustainable development. Governments need to drive these standards into enforceable business practice through policies and regulations. Businesses and investors can also do their part by joining these initiatives and following their guidance.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Responsible Research
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210581349
Natural resources represent a large share of FDI inflows to the Asia-Pacific region. Covered in this study are oil, gas, mining, hydropower, and large tract plantations such as palm oil and rubber (but not agriculture). These sectors share a number of common features relating both to the nature and the social and environmental impacts of FDI. Growing worldwide demand for these finite resources has made them increasingly attractive investment opportunities. Over the past few years, ESCAP has been actively working to support increased implementation of more inclusive and sustainable business practices in the Asia and Pacific region. This study builds on this work by providing a review of the issues, challenges, instruments and tools related to responsible business and sustainable FDI in the natural resources sector in the Asia-Pacific region. The ultimate objective of the study is to promote FDI that brings a satisfactory return on investment for the business or investor and a positive social return on investment for the host country whilst ensuring environmental sustainability.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Responsible Research
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : William Nikolakis,John L. Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108471404
Provides a global analysis of policies to address deforestation, an important driver of climate change.
Author : Anthony DiNicola,Don Justin Jones,Gerald Gray
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Atmospheric carbon dioxide
ISBN : IND:30000067174312
Author : John L. Innes,Anna V. Tikina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781136456763
Sustainable Forest Management provides the necessary material to educate students about forestry and the contemporary role of forests in ecosystems and society. This comprehensive textbook on the concept and practice of sustainable forest management sets the standard for practice worldwide. Early chapters concentrate on conceptual aspects, relating sustainable forestry management to international policy. In particular, they consider the concept of criteria and indicators and how this has determined the practice of forest management, taken here to be the management of forested lands and of all ecosystems present on such lands. Later chapters are more practical in focus, concentrating on the management of the many values associated with forests. Overall the book provides a major new synthesis which will serve as a textbook for undergraduates of forestry as well as those from related disciplines such as ecology or geography who are taking a course in forests or natural resource management.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Responsible Research
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anthony DiNicola,Gerald Gray,Don Justin Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Carbon dioxide sinks
ISBN : MINN:31951D01623880U
Author : Susan Shen,Arnoldo Contreras-Hermosilla
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821332333
World Bank Technical Paper No. 281. Provides an overview of environmentally related priority issues in Asian forestry and contributes to the critical work of understanding the complex dynamics of those issues.
Author : Piers Blaikie
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849771399
�With tens of millions of hectares and hundreds of millions of lives in the balance, the debate over who should control South Asia�s forests is of tremendous political significance. This book provides an insightfuland thorough assessment of important forest management transitions currently underway.�MARK POFFENBERGER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY FORESTRY INTERNATIONAL�The contributions in this volume not only breathe life into the fi eld of writing and analysis related to forests, they do so on the strength of extraordinarily insightful research. Kudos to Springate-Baginski and Blaikie for providing us with a set of thoroughly researched, provocative studies that should be required reading not only for those interested in community forestry in south Asia, but in resource governance anywhere.� ARUN AGRAWAL, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, USA�Makes a significant contribution to theory and practice of participatory forest management.�YAM MALLA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, REGIONAL COMMUNITY FORESTRY TRAINING CENTER FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC, BANGKOK�This excellent and timely book provides thought-provoking insights to the issues of power and politics in forestry and the difficulties of transforming age-old structures that circumscribe the access of the poor to forests and their resources; it challenges our assumptions of the benefits of participatory forest management and the role of forestry in poverty reduction. It should be of interest to policy-makers and to all those who have been involved with the struggle of transforming forestry over the decades.�DR MARY HOBLEY, HOBLEY SHIELDS ASSOCIATES (NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING CONSULTANCY)�A rare combination of extensive field study, social science insights and policy studies � will be of immense value�DR N. C. SAXENA, MEMBER OF NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL, GOVERNMENT OF INDIAIn recent decades �participatory� approaches to forest management have been introduced around the world. This book assesses their implementation in the highly politicized environments of India and Nepal. The authors critically examine the policy, implementation processes and causal factors affecting livelihood impacts. Considering narratives and field practice, with data from over 60 study villages and over 1000 household interviews, the book demonstrates why particular field outcomes have occurred and why policy reform often proves so difficult. Research findings on which the book is based are already influencing policy in India and Nepal, and the research and analysis have great relevance to forestry management in a wide range of countries.Published with DFID.
Author : Guo Xiumei,Marinova Dora
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813236011
The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a common global agenda for development. However, the emerging policy issues vary greatly across the world. With 32 contributors, this volume provides a timely, research-based overview for the need for policy interventions to improve the sustainability and development models of the ten selected countries in Asia and the Pacific. The volume is firmly positioned at the cusp between research, policy and practice.
