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Vital Graphics on Payment for Ecosystem Services - Realising Nature’s Value

UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Publications - Vital Graphics on payment for ecosystem services

►http://grida.no/publications/vg/pes

This publication highlights the concept and selected market segments relating to payments for ecosystem services. It emphasises the role natural capital can play in both environmental conservation and in poverty allevia- tion, and highlights the potential benefits of ecosystem-based economic development in an accessible, non-technical manner.

GRID-Arendal hopes this publication will be helpful for policy advisors and civil society representatives (non-government, community-based organisations and local businesses) working with community-based projects providing training in relation to ecosystem services."

#environnement #ecosystèmes #cartographie #infographies

Très intéressante recension d’Electronic Intifada sur les fabrications d’un « journaliste » anti-palestinien et anti-libanais. Et de constater qu’après de pareilles fabrications, on peut encore parfaitement travailler. Revealed : producer of propaganda BBC report on Gaza attack has history of fabrication
►http://electronicintifada.net/content/revealed-producer-propaganda-bbc-report-gaza-attack-has-history-fabrication/11532

In 2002, the Toronto Star quoted CBC’s Macdonald saying that Martin eventually admitted that his source for the fake Hizballah quote was Walid Phares (“Curious silence greets discredited Hezbollah tale,” 13 December 2002).

A former top-ranking political leader of the far-right sectarian Lebanese Forces militia, Phares has reinvented himself in recent years as a “terrorism expert.” Last year he was controversially given a top job as part of US presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s team of Middle East policy advisors.

The Canadian press caught onto the story in 2002 because the fabricated quote appeared at a time when the Canadian government was considering a ban on Hizballah’s political-social wing. The quote appeared to be decisive in the ban going through, although the government denied that was the case after the CBC exposed the quote to be false.