Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services
- Key Projects
- Community Carbon Accounting (CCA)
- REDD+ Database
- Water Environment Partnership in Asia
- Groundwater Management
- Asia Pacific Adaptation Network
- Risk insurance for CCA and DRR
- Non-economic Loss and Damage
- Climate-fragility Risks in Asia
- Making land-use climate-sensitive
- Satoyama Development Mechanism
- JBF-IPBES Capacity Building Project
- Satoyama Initiative
Countries in the Asia-Pacific region have made tremendous progress over recent decades in growing their economies, but at serious costs to biodiversity and ecosystem services. The region has entered a development context that is increasingly influenced by resource constraints and growing risks. Through solution-oriented multidisciplinary research, the Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services team aims to guide policies and practices that support human development through the integrated management of natural resources. NRE research is framed by an understanding that sustainable and equitable management of natural resources requires robust governance structures, enhanced accountability and coordinated sustainability approaches across all policy levels.
New Publications
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Book
One Against Disasters and Climate Risks: A Repository of Good Practices for Strengthening DRR and CCA Integration in ASEAN |
What's New
- World's first voluntary quality of governance standard for forest management and emissions reduction launched in Nepal
7 November 2016 - IGES becomes a GRIPP partner
IGES recently became a strategic partner of GRIPP (Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice)–a global partnership for sustainable groundwater management.
Databases
IGES REDD+ Database
Profiles of REDD-plus projects to facilitate learning, comparison and analysis.
WEPA Databases
Policies, Technologies, NGOs' and CBOs' activities and Sources of water-related information on water environment management.
Area Publications
IGES e-Learning Series »IGES YouTube Channel
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Balancing Biodiversity and Community Resilience through Production Landscapes and Seascapes
・The guardians of Ecuador’s dry forest: A story of community resilience
・Biodiversity and Resilience Indicators: Communities managing production landscapes and seascapes -
Harnessing Climate Change Mitigation Initiatives to Benefit Women
・Empowering Women to Mitigate Climate Change: Gender-responsive Approaches
・Mainstreaming Gender into Climate Mitigation Actions in Nine Steps -
Making Our Cities Climate-Sensitive
・Overcoming Floods in the Philippines: A story of climate change adaptation and mitigation
・Participatory Watershed Land-Use Management Approach: Interfacing science, policy and participation