Ⅲ-2. Poverty reduction and capacity building for sustainable fisheries development through Area-capability approach

Building on Hidden Opportunities to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals: Poverty Reduction through Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity

The CBD objectives clearly provide much opportunity for building on the links between livelihoods development and the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. This is further supported by the Convention’s explicit recognition that ‘economic and social development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding priorities of developing countries.’ The problem is that there is littl...

Sustainable Development of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry

Sustainable Infrastructure Assets: Capability for Infrastructure Capacity Management

Building for a sustainable environment requires sustainable infrastructure assets. Infrastructure capacity management is the process of ensuring optimal provision of such infrastructure assets. Effectiveness in this process will enable the infrastructure asset owners and its stakeholders to receive full value on their investment. Business research has shown that an organisation can only achieve...

Icts and Sustainable Development: a Capability Perspective

Much research on developing countries highlights the developmental potential associated with ICTs as a rationale for implementing particular information systems. However, such initiatives are often problematic to realize and difficult to sustain. In this paper we examine the promise of development associated with the introduction of an Electronic Voters’ Registration (EVR) system in Nigeria. We...

Recent Developments in Biogas Technology for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development