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Name Bijnan Acharya	Title Restoration of Native Plants in Community Forests: A Locally Taken Initiative towards Biodiversity Conservation	Paper N/A
Abstract Terai is a narrow strip of low, flat, and fertile land, which runs along Nepal's southern border at <1,000 m of altitude. Possessing a complex mix of flora and fauna, the Terai is an area of global importance for biodiversity. It supports a spectacular assemblage of Asia's megafauna. Terai is ... Full abstract
Keywords community forestry, institutional capacity

Name Paulina Aldunce	Title Institutions and community participation in the disaster management: the Limari River Basin case study	Paper N/A
Abstract This research focused in disaster management caused by extreme rainfall in the semi-arid basin of the Limarí River, Chile. The main objective was to analyze the institutions and community involvement in disaster management, and to propose, together with the community, adoption of appropriate management measures, in order to decrease social ... Full abstract
Keywords disaster management, community participation

Name Abdelkader Allali	Title Sustainable Development (SD) of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects	Paper N/A
Abstract Developed countries are asked to commit themselves voluntarily to meeting targets of emissions reduction. At the same time, a free market is created to transact these reduction units, encouraging investment in developing countries and technology transfers. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), set up in the Kyoto Protocol (KP), is an original ... Full abstract
Keywords sustainable development, kyoto protocol, greenhouse gases

Name Savas Alpay	Title How Can Trade Liberalization Be Conducive to a Better Environment?	Paper N/A
Abstract One of the standard- for some economists, the deepest and most beautiful- results of international trade is that free trade will benefit all participants. That is why trade liberalization is considered to be a very important step towards development by many economists and politicians. Nevertheless, as indicated by Corden (1974), ... Full abstract
Keywords transboundary, trade and environment, trade policies, GATT

Name Lalit Kishor Bhati	Title Auroville - The City the Earth Needs. A Successful Case of an Innovative and Integrated Sustainable Planning & Development	Paper N/A
Abstract Sustainability: An established necessity – It is all about developing a new mind set towards the harmonious co-existence of all. An absence of Shared Vision, sufficient and complete information base to be aware & make informed choices are to just name a few. It is highly appropriate to ponder on ... Full abstract
Keywords sustainability, Auroville, urban planning

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Name Kamlya Cunha	Title The role of institutions in promoting the interface between climate change and energy in Brazil’s context	Paper N/A
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Name Judith Christine Enders	Title The Role and Influence of Academic Knowledge Networks in International Climate Policy Decision-Making, with particular regard to IDGEC	Paper N/A
Abstract Since the mid-1980s, the study of climate change and climate change policy has become increasingly popular. As greater numbers of researchers have begun focusing on this issue, specialized discourses have evolved with respect to its description and analysis. I aim to identify the ways in which specially constructed research constellations ... Full abstract
Keywords climate change, knowledge networks, IDGEC

Name Siri Hettige	Title Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation of Disaster Victims	Paper N/A
Abstract The Tsunami disaster that struck most of the coastal communities in Sri Lanka displaced hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed most of their assets and properties. Many families lost one or more members leading to traumatization of those who survived. Though the disaster did not distinguish between classes, ethnic or ... Full abstract
Keywords vulnerability, resilience, adaptation, disaster management

Name Annabelle Houdret	Title Water scarcity conflicts: cooperative solutions through new institutional arrangements?	Paper N/A
Abstract This contribution to the IDGEC Synthesis Conference focuses on the role of formal and informal institutions in adaptation processes to environmental change. Water scarcity and soil degradation as a result of environmental change and increasing demand are frequent triggering factors of environmental conflicts (Homer-Dixon and Parcival 1998; Bächler 2001; de ... Full abstract
Keywords institutional adaptation, water scarcity, conflict, soil degradation

Name Arthur Jones Lewis	Title Vulnerability, Resilience, and Adaptability (VRA) of Environmental Resources, Ghana’s Experience	Paper N/A
Abstract Ghana has adequate environmental resources to contribute significantly to sustainable development and attainment of millennium development goals (MDGs) and new partnership for African development. However the environment is continually being impoverished with the consequence that many people are vulnerable and the inability to cope with the situation has reached an unprecedented ... Full abstract
Keywords vulnerability, resilience, adaptability, environmental institutions

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Name E Carina H Keskitalo	Title Vulnerability and adaptive capacity in forestry, fishing and reindeer herding systems in northern Europe	Paper N/A
Abstract Vulnerability and adaptive capacity to change are location-specific, and many decisions regarding climate-induced risks are made at the local and regional levels. This makes it necessary to survey stakeholders’ understandings of their situation and perceived problems. Assessments should also include other ongoing changes and multiple impacts, such as globalisation, that ... Full abstract
Keywords vulnerability, adaptive capacity, resource management, globalization

Name Ho-Ching Lee	Title Understanding Institutional Design and Bargaining in Taiwan: All About Adaptation Under the Framework of the Kyoto Protocol	Paper N/A
Abstract Since establishment of the National Council for Sustainable Development (NCSD) in 1997, striking a balance between environmental protection and economic development has turned into one of the largest policy debates in Taiwan. In February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol entered into force and nine months later a historical first meeting of ... Full abstract
Keywords design, adaptation, climate change, Kyoto

Name Jesse Manuta Louis Lebel	Title Climate change and the risk of flood disaster: crafting adaptive and just institutions in Asia.	Paper N/A
Abstract Flood disasters are the most frequent and devastating natural disaster in the Asia region, and like disasters in general, their impacts have grown in spite of our improved ability to monitor and describe them (White et al. 2001). For the past thirty years the number of flood disasters has ... Full abstract
Keywords disasters, climate change, institutional adaptation, vulnerability

Name Alejandra Martinez	Title Institutions and gender in climate change adaptation in Peruvian Central Andes	Paper N/A
Abstract Estimates of climate change to the year 2050 in the Mantaro River basin based on IPCC projections and statistical downscaling methods indicate an increase in temperature and a decrease in rainfall during the rainy season (summer). In a zone that has already suffered serious droughts in the past; this new ... Full abstract
Keywords gender, climate change, adaption

Name Paul Isolo Mukwaya Charles Basalirwa Gordon Pirie	Title Planning for climate and carbon friendly cities: intuitional challenges in Kampala City region	Paper N/A
Abstract Since the Kyoto Protocol came into effect, planning for climate and carbon friendly cities is one of the most pressing challenges for developing countries. As developing countries get integrated into the international carbon control regime, there has been little attention on city connections to global environmental change and even as ... Full abstract
Keywords climate change, urban planning

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Name Bradley Parrish	Title Entrepreneurship and the Design of Institutions in the Natural Environment	Paper N/A
Abstract There is growing appreciation that it is not human technology so much as patterns of human activity that is the driving force for changes in the natural environment. When addressing these institutionalized human activity patterns attention is usually drawn to the extremes, either the macro scale of national and international ... Full abstract
Keywords design

Name M K Nsiah	Title Role of Institutions in Managing Global Environment Problems in Ghana	Paper N/A
Abstract Instituitons play vital roles in managing global environmental problems. Of late environmental problems such as sanitation, pollution, natural resource degradation have become very challenging both locally and internationally. In Ghana, the problem is assuming very huge proportion in view of increasing population growth and the inability of institutional policies to effectively ... Full abstract
Keywords environmental institutions, design, institutional capacity

Name Sergio Ramiro Pena-Neira	Title Balancing rights and obligations in sharing benefits from Natural Genetic Resources: Problems, discussions and possible solutions	Paper N/A
Abstract Biological diversity is getting consideration, as economic benefits from biodiversity could support social goals or individual goals, providing fundamental information for the manufacture of commercial goods but interests on the share of benefits from Natural Genetic Resources collide. Natural Genetic Resources (NGRs) are genetic resources from the wildlife for nature. It ... Full abstract
Keywords intellectual property rights, Convention on Biological Diversity

Name Sujata Pokharel	Title Beyond Mainstream Forestry: Rattan Management in Sati Karnali Community Forest in Nepal	Paper N/A
Abstract Nepal is rich in Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) because of its diverse physiographical, altitudinal, and climatological conditions. Many of these products provide an important supplemental livelihood resource for families who can grow only enough crops to feed themselves for a few months of the year. Most of these NTFPs are ... Full abstract
Keywords Community forestry, non-timber forest products

Name Joerg Priess Robert Weber Matthias Mimler Alexander Oltchev Kamaruddin Abdullah	Title Impact of regional and local institutions on the conversion of protected forests in Sulawesi, Indonesia	Paper N/A
Abstract Tropical rainforests continue to disappear causing unprecedented losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services. Despite an increasing recognition of the value of these public goods at local, national and global levels, rainforests continue to be seriously threatened by various forms of encroachments such as low-intensity harvesting of non-timber forest products by ... Full abstract
Keywords sustainable forestry, interplay

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Name Atanu Sarkar	Title Roles of inequality and inequity in occurrence and severity of chronic arsenicosis: A lesson learnt from Bengal basin	Paper N/A
Abstract In 1983, the first person with clinical manifestation caused by the consumption of arsenic contaminated ground water was diagnosed in the state of West Bengal (India), followed by neighboring Bangladesh in 1991. In the following years arsenic has also been detected in some other states India and also in Pakistan ... Full abstract
Keywords water quality management, arsenic

Name Uta Schuchmann	Title Decentralisation and global trade—chances and risks for marine ecosystems, food security and the self-governance of coastal communities	Paper N/A
Abstract Overuse and destructive use as a result of dilemmas of collective action are major causes that accelerate destruction of marine ecosystems all over the world. This puts also at risk the food security of local communities dependent on these ecosystem’s goods and services. Since the 1980s, studies about common property ... Full abstract
Keywords food security, globalization, fisheries trade policies

Name A J Surjadi	Title Analysing Pathways to Sustainability in Indonesia	Paper N/A
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Name Nicholas Watts	Title The Role of Regional and International Organisations in the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States in the Anglophone Caribbean	Paper N/A
Abstract The international relations of global environmental change present SIDS with particular challenges of co-ordination and capacity development. The paper will address the role played by regional intergovernmental organisations and regional international non-governmental organisations as well as one international organisation in coordinating and promoting sustainable development in SIDS, especially in supporting ... Full abstract
Keywords international organizations, sustainable development

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