Achieving water security has emerged as a major objective in Africa, yet an analytical or diagnostic framework for assessing water security in African countries is not known to exist. This paper applies one key dimension of the 2016 Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Asian Water Development Outlook (...
Holmatov, Bunyod
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Lautze, Jonathan
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Manthrithilake, Herath
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Makin, Ian
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[Water security for productive economies: applying an assessment framework in southern Africa]
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Water security for productive economies: applying an assessment framework in southern Africa
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are high on the agenda for most countries of the world. In its publication of the SDGs, the UN has provided the goals and target descriptions that, if implemented at a country level, would lead towards a sustai...
Dickens, Chris
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Smakhtin, V.
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McCartney, Matthew P.
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O'Brien, G.
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Dahir, L.
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[Defining and quantifying national-level targets, indicators and benchmarks for management of natural resources to achieve the sustainable development goals]
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Defining and quantifying national-level targets, indicators and benchmarks for management of natural resources to achieve the sustainable development goals
Mulongo, G.
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[Debating international learner assessments as a proxy measure of quality of education in the context of EFA-A review essay.]
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Debating international learner assessments as a proxy measure of quality of education in the context of EFA-A review essay.
An approach to assessing the environmental outcomes and changes in peoples’ livelihoods resulting from landscape-scale conservation interventions was developed for three locations in Africa. Simple sets of performance indicators were developed through participatory processes that included a varie...
Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Petheram, L.
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Aldrich, M.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Endamana, D.
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Dongmo, Z.L N.
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Defo, L.
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Mariki, S.
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Doggart, N.
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Burgess, N.
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[Assessing environment and development outcomes in conservation landscapes]
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Assessing environment and development outcomes in conservation landscapes
Murdiyarso, Daniel
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Noordwijk, Meine van
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Puntodewo, A.
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Widayati, A.
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Lusiana, B.
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[District-scale prioritization for A/R CDM project activities in Indonesia in line with sustainable development objectives]
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District-scale prioritization for A/R CDM project activities in Indonesia in line with sustainable development objectives
Criteria and indicators (C&I) have become primary tools in implementing the principle of sustainable resource management. To carry out this principle, it is necessary to develop methodologies that can holistically and systematically generate relevant indicators for a particular forest or resource...
Mendoza, G.A.
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Prabhu, R.
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[Qualitative multi-criteria approaches to assessing indicators of sustainable forest resource management]
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Qualitative multi-criteria approaches to assessing indicators of sustainable forest resource management
The diversity of C&I sets is often a cause for uncertainty and confusion, and probably one of the reasons for the still unsatisfactory acceptance of C&I as a support for implementation of sustainable forest management so far. In order to halt this erosion of confidence in C&I the presented paper ...
Pokorny, B.
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Adams, M.
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[What do criteria and indicators assess?: an analysis of five C&I sets relevant for forest management in the Brazilian Amazon]
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What do criteria and indicators assess?: an analysis of five C&I sets relevant for forest management in the Brazilian Amazon
The assessment on key ecological factors affecting runoff and soil erosion and the usefulness of plot-level monitoring of soil erosion was conducted by collecting runoff and soil loss records from 14 runoff plots. The runoff plots were set up in two catchments in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, wh...
Hartanto, H.
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Prabhu, R.
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Widayat, A.S.E.
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Asdak, C.
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[Factors affecting runoff and soil erosion: plot-level soil loss monitoring for assessing sustainability of forest management]
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Factors affecting runoff and soil erosion: plot-level soil loss monitoring for assessing sustainability of forest management
Tropical countries are expanding plantation forestry to develop sustainable wood production systems. Much of this is based on short rotations of exotic species. These systems require large capital investments, represent intensive land use and increase the demands on the soil. To develop options f...
Hopmans, P.
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Prabhu, R.
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Brand, D.
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Nambiar, S.
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Cossalter, C.
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[Development of C&I for tropical plantation forests]
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Development of C&I for tropical plantation forests
This paper describes an application of multi-criteria analysis (MCA) in evaluating and selecting criteria and indicators (C&I) of forest sustainability. The method was applied on a case study involving a forest area managed under the Community-Based Forest Management System of the Department of E...
Mendoza, G.A.
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Prabhu, R.
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[Evaluating and selecting criteria and indicators of forest sustainability: a case study on participatory assessment under CBFM in the Philippines]
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Evaluating and selecting criteria and indicators of forest sustainability: a case study on participatory assessment under CBFM in the Philippines