scholarly journals Property rights, institutional regime shifts and the provision of freshwater ecosystem services on the Pongola River floodplain, South Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bimo Abraham Nkhata ◽  
Charles Breen ◽  
Duncan Hay ◽  
Melanie Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Regime Shifts ◽  
Freshwater Ecosystem ◽  
River Floodplain

scholarly journals Interacting Regional-Scale Regime Shifts for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

BioScience ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 665-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Leadley ◽  
Vânia Proença ◽  
Juan Fernández-Manjarrés ◽  
Henrique Miguel Pereira ◽  
Rob Alkemade ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Regime Shifts

scholarly journals Not Tripping over TRIPS: An Analysis of Necessity and Legality of the COVID-19 TRIPS Waiver Proposal

2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 61-65
Author(s):  
Ahan Gadkari ◽  
◽  
Sofia Dash ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing ◽  
The World ◽  
Fair Distribution

The availability of vaccinations against COVID-19 provides hope for containing the epidemic, which has already claimed over 2.84 million lives. However, inoculating millions of individuals worldwide would need large vaccine manufacturing followed by fair distribution. A barrier to vaccine development and dissemination is the developers' intellectual property rights. India and South Africa have jointly sought to the World Trade Organization that certain TRIPS rules of COVID-19 vaccines, medicines, and treatments be waived. This piece argues for such a waiver, highlighting the unique circumstances that exist. It believes that TRIPS's flexibilities are inadequate to cope with the present epidemic, particularly for nations without pharmaceutical manufacturing competence.

Freshwater ecosystem services supporting humans: Pivoting from water crisis to water solutions

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 108-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela A. Green ◽  
Charles J. Vörösmarty ◽  
Ian Harrison ◽  
Tracy Farrell ◽  
Leonard Sáenz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Freshwater Ecosystem ◽  
Water Crisis ◽  
Water Solutions

scholarly journals Freshwater Ecosystem Services in Mining Regions: Modelling Options for Policy Development Support

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Mercado-Garcia ◽  
Guido Wyseure ◽  
Peter Goethals
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Freshwater Ecosystem ◽  
Development Support ◽  
Mining Regions

Mountains as a critical source of ecosystem services: the case of the Drakensberg, South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 1035-1052 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Ngwenya ◽  
E. Torquebiau ◽  
J. W. H. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Ecosystem Services

scholarly journals Exploring Farmers’ Management Practices and Values of Ecosystem Services in an Agroecosystem Context—A Case Study from the Eastern Cape, South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Junior Choruma ◽  
Oghenekaro Nelson Odume
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Agricultural Management ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Provisioning Ecosystem Services

Globally, farmers remain the key ecosystem managers responsible for increasing food production while simultaneously reducing the associated negative environmental impacts. However, research investigating how farmers’ agricultural management practices are influenced by the values they assign to ecosystem services is scarce in South Africa. To address this gap, a survey of farmers’ agricultural management practices and the values they assigned towards ecosystem services was conducted in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Results from the survey show that farmers assign a high value on food provisioning ecosystem services compared to other ecosystem services. Irrigation and fertiliser decisions were mostly based on achieving maximum crop yields or good crop quality. The majority of farmers (86%) indicated a willingness to receive payments for ecosystem services (PES) to manage their farms in a more ecosystems-oriented manner. To encourage farmers to shift from managing ecosystems for single ecosystem services such as food provision to managing ecosystems for multiple ecosystem services, market-oriented plans such as PES may be employed. Effective measures for sustainable intensification of food production will depend on the inclusion of farmers in the development of land management strategies and practices as well as increasing farmers’ awareness and knowledge of the ecosystem services concept.

scholarly journals Shifting states, shifting services: Linking regime shifts to changes in ecosystem services of shallow lakes

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette B. G. Janssen ◽  
Sabine Hilt ◽  
Sarian Kosten ◽  
Jeroen J. M. Klein ◽  
Hans W. Paerl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Shallow Lakes ◽  
Regime Shifts
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