Tag Archives: Sustainable development

Social networks foster sustainable development

  By iip | September 26, 2011 - 3:27 pm | Internet
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My attention on internet development finds new perspective related to sustainable development. I thought there’s a complex relation between internet and sustainable development.  People who develop internet are engineers and people who engage with sustainable development issues mostly decision makers, NGO activism and social scientists.  I guess there are limited collaboration researches  joining  both internet and sustainable development.

Then I have chance to explore Jeffery D Sachs newest book of Common Wealth: Economics for a crowded planet (2008). Sachs, according to Edward o Wilson in its foreword, has written a state of the world report of immediate and enormous practical value.

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Sustainable Value Approach in the palm oil industry

  By iip | August 2, 2010 - 4:55 pm | Earth
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What is the role of companies in the era of sustainable development?  It easy to understand that companies are contributing to economy and world growth at various levels; from local to global by creating value added of goods and services. In term of oil palm plantation, large scale companies alter land monetary value to some degree higher by producing palm oil from the plantation.

But, the world is changing and more people considering social and environmental value. Companies are now working not only for profitability only and neglecting their environment.  How the oil palm companies dealing with this issue?

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    palm oil cost and return analysis, sustainable value approach (sva)

The bio-rights financial mechanism

  By iip | July 9, 2009 - 12:28 pm | Forest
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I noted PES and REDD as recent mechanisms that was built to protect environmental services. However, some parties have developed similar mechanism with various approaches or addressing more issues on local people’s livelihood.  Such mechanisms allow resources transfer from different parties who have also different capabilities.

Here I put another financial mechanism –known as Bio-right that aims to address poverty issues and environmental degradation.  This mechanism stands in the area where widely known that poverty has to do with environmental problems or vice versa. The linkage is more complex and varies from countries to countries.  What make different Bio-rights mechanism with PES or REDD?

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