Estimating the demand for energy and natural resource inputs: trade–offs in global properties

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 931-945 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Considine
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Global Properties ◽  
Trade Offs

scholarly journals Ecosystem services for meeting sustainable development goals: Challenges and pathways

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazmul Huq
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Development Trajectory ◽  
Current Resource ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Development Goals

AbstractThe paper summarizes four presentations of the session “Environment and Wellbeing: The Role of Ecosystems for Sustainable Development” at the international conference “Sustainability in the Water- Energy-Food Nexus” held on 19-20th May 2014 in Bonn, Germany. The aim of the session was to present current stresses on ecosystem services imposed by global development trajectory, potential impacts on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and pathways to achieve SDGs. All four presentations agreed that global ecosystem services are under increasing pressure from degradation and may not be able to meet the growing Water-Energy- Food (WEF) demands especially for the developing world. Three examples from Tanzania, Cambodia and Niger made attempt to understand how governance policies attributed to natural resource depletion such as forestry and common grazing. The examples showed that governance policies favoring economic development are heavily contributing to clearing up natural resource bases. As a result, there were increasing conflicts among different resource user groups. Two other presentations introduce conceptual pathways to achieve the targets of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under current resource stressed regime. The pathways suggested global technologies, decentralized solutions and consumption changes as the major means of achieving global sustainability and poverty eradication without any major trade-offs.

A decision framework for natural resource management: a case study using plant introductions

2006 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 1397 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. J. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Plant Introductions ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Ecological Risk Assessments ◽  
Benefit Cost ◽  
Analytical Tools

One means of anticipating and, thus, preventing natural resource problems, such as those that may arise from plant introductions, is to use effective decision frameworks. This paper argues that such frameworks are typified by 4 elements. These are clear goals explicitly linked to cultural values, key questions that scope problems and management options, application of appropriate analytical tools, and the connection of authority for decisions with responsibility for outcomes. These elements are explored here. Trade offs are an inevitable part of decisions concerning natural resource management, including those relating to plant introductions. Benefit-cost and multi-criteria decision analyses are useful in this regard, but must be applied using methods that ensure all the relevant cultural values and management options are explored. Some recent proposals concerning the assessment of plant introductions do not always adequately frame decision issues. Ecological risk assessments can be used to define an acceptable level of risk concerning the negative impacts of introducing new biota, and, combined with an appropriate benefit-cost or multi-criteria analysis, provide the suite of analytical tools to make effective decisions concerning plant introductions. Effective decisions are more likely when the authority to make decisions and the responsibility for unforeseen outcomes are closely linked.

Sovereign Asset-Liability Management - Guidance for Resource-Rich Economies

Policy Papers ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (66) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Commodity Prices ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Asset Liability Management ◽  
Macroeconomic Policies ◽  
Liability Management ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Temporal Smoothing

Ample natural resource revenues create both opportunities and challenges for a sovereign to transform its natural resources into well-managed financial assets. Hence, inter-temporal smoothing of revenue and consumption/investment moves to the center stage of macroeconomic policies. The questions arising from natural resource wealth accumulation are becoming more pressing for many countries, given the need to achieve intergenerational equity in a context where commodity prices may not continue their upward trajectory of the past decade. Addressing these questions requires a flexible sovereign asset-liability management (SALM) framework that integrates various macroeconomic and financial trade-offs with the aim of containing financial risk to the sovereign balance sheet. The framework and policy advice aims to guide policymakers across different institutions in weighing those trade-offs.

Agricultural Development and Environmental Protection: Some Key Issues of Potential Relevance to Pakistan (The Distinguishedl Lecture)

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (4I) ◽  
pp. 501-521
Author(s):  
Hartwig De Haen
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Natural Resource Conservation ◽  
Agricultural Planning ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Policy And Planning

Pakistan has made noteworthy attempts to incorporate environmental concerns into its policy and planning framework. Environment legislation and the establishment of the Pakistan Environment Protection Agency now date back more than a decade. In 1988 it was also one of the first developing countries to begin designing a comprehensive national conservation strategy. Proposed investments and adjustments to policy arising from the strategy are incorporated in the Eighth Plan 1993-98; and continue to be debated in national fora [see Amir, Chaudhri and Nasir (1992) for example]. Such actions reflect the growing concerns on the wide range of environmental problems facing Pakistan, the result of a still rapidly growing population (more than 3 percent per annum) confronting widespread natural resource degradation. The main purpose of this paper, therefore, is not to underline the well known need to take account of the environment in agricultural planning and policy-making in Pakistan, but to raise some general issues regarding the complementarities and trade-offs between maintaining agricultural production growth on one hand and natural resource conservation on the other.

scholarly journals Ecosystem services for meeting sustainable development goals: Challenges and pathways

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazmul Huq
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Development Trajectory ◽  
Current Resource ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Development Goals

AbstractThe paper summarizes four presentations of the session “Environment and Wellbeing: The Role of Ecosystems for Sustainable Development” at the international conference “Sustainability in the Water- Energy-Food Nexus” held on 19-20th May 2014 in Bonn, Germany. The aim of the session was to present current stresses on ecosystem services imposed by global development trajectory, potential impacts on future Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and pathways to achieve SDGs. All four presentations agreed that global ecosystem services are under increasing pressure from degradation and may not be able to meet the growing Water-Energy-Food (WEF) demands especially for the developing world. Three examples from Tanzania, Cambodia and Niger made attempt to understand how government policies attributed to natural resource depletion such as forestry and common grazing. The examples showed that institutional policies favoring economic development contributing heavily to clearing up natural resource bases. As a result, there were increasing conflicts among different resource user groups. Two other presentations introduce conceptual pathways to achieve the targets of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under current resource stressed regime. The pathways suggested global technologies, decentralized solutions and consumption changes as the major means of achieving global sustainability and poverty eradication without any major trade-offs.

scholarly journals Demand for nonprovisioning ecosystem services as a driver of change in the Canadian boreal zone1

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl A. Lamothe ◽  
Haibin Dong ◽  
Oscar E. Senar ◽  
Sonja Teichert ◽  
Irena F. Creed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Boreal Zone ◽  
Drivers Of Change ◽  
Natural Resource Extraction ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Ecosystem Condition ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Natural Resource Development

The Canadian boreal zone provides ecosystem services from local to global scales. Either directly or indirectly, demands for these services have and will continue to serve as drivers of change in the region. Here we present evidence for past, present, and potential future demand for maintaining nonprovisioning ecosystem services (NPrES), defined as indirect and nonmarketable services obtained from ecosystems as a driver of change in the boreal zone. Our evidence of demand stems from federal and provincial policies, actions by Indigenous peoples, and nongovernmental initiatives that aim to maintain the sustainability of natural resource extraction and ecosystem condition of the boreal. Presently, the demand for NPrES influences decisions related to natural resource development (e.g., forestry) that in turn impacts the condition of the boreal zone. Informed by the present conditions and past trends, three future scenarios to the year 2050 are presented that contrast in their trajectory—status quo, increased demand for NPrES, and decreased demand for NPrES. We also summarize the interactions among other drivers of change in the boreal and the synergies and trade-offs among the different types of demand for NPrES. Ultimately, sustainability of the boreal zone and the ecosystem services it provides will result from a complex suite of interacting drivers of change, where the balance of demands for provisioning and NPrES will continue to influence regional conditions.

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