Video produced by IEDS Scholar Laurent Cartier and Dr. Saleem Ali during a field visit to a pearl farming region in French Polynesia exploring ways by which this industry can be a source of sustainable livelihoods. Video provides a good technical overview of cultured pearl farming in this region...
Resource Values
Conference: Environmental Diplomacy and Security in International Relations
CONFERENCE CONCLUDED SUCCESSFULLY. Summaries of discussions were posted on the IEDS Blog
University of Vermont - Burlington, Vermont USA
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Event
This video was filmed by IEDS doctoral scholar Anjanette Decarlo during her fieldwork in Somaliland in early 2011. IEDS Fellow Marta Ceroni also collaborated on this project. The goal of the video is to show how a postwar enclave within Somalia that has achieved functional autonomy is exploring...
Video
A field video about a environmental conflict in Cameroon pertaining to the development of a medium-scale run-of-the river hydroelectric project. The community is willing to consider this as an important means of development but want a process which takes into account their concerns. Filmed in...
Video
Read the full article on Libya at the IEDS Newsvine blog page linked here
News
Land tenure arrangements have been the focus of many struggles to achieve sustainable development in rural communities and are often at the core of contemporary politics in developing countries. Scotland provides an unusual contemporary case of transition from a feudal aristocracy to a more...
Publication
Gemstones and the environment share an intrinsic relationship. Gemstones themselves are a product of temporary geological conditions and environments. They can be found on earth’s seven continents. They can be found in primary or secondary deposits, at the bottom of seas and on the top of...
Publication
This project comprises the dissertation research of IEDS doctoral fellow Anjanette DeCarlo.
To successfully reduce poverty, professionals need to know why international development projects fail. Inconsistencies in policy on foreign aid miss the links between the environment and...
Project
Leveraging our location at an academic institution, IEDS is developing a series of learning modules on environmental diplomacy and security which can be used for academic credit towards a degree or for professional training. Our approach combines field education with online learning and short...
Project
As the world negotiates the first treaty on mercury as a pollutant (targeted for completion under the auspices of UNEP by 2012), IEDS researcher Hajra Atiq is considering what barriers exist to the implementation of mercury-free artisanal gold mining. Our partner on this project are the...
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