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  How New York City used an ecosystem services strategy carried out through an urban-rural partnership to preserve the pristine quality of its drinking water and save billions of dollars and What lessons it teaches about using ecosystem services 

  Appleton, A.F. (2002)

  This presentation by Al Appleton, former New York City Commissioner of Water and Environment, discusses his experience setting up payment schemes for farmers in the Catskill Mountains that have not only safeguarded New ...
• Maasai Mara - an ecosystem under siege: An African case study on the societal dimension of rangeland conservation 

  Waithaka, J. (Grahamstown, South Africa: NISC Pty Ltd, 2004)

  'Let me assure you all that our commitment to the preservation of wildlife and the habitat in the Maasai Mara reserve is total. We do not deny that the reserve is of vital economic importance to us, but we also firmly ...
• Poverty elimination, North-South research collaboration, and the politics of participatory development 

  Simon, D.; McGregor, D.; K. Nsiah-Gyabaah; Thompson, D. (New York, NY: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2003)

  This paper reflects critically on issues of North-South collaboration and participatory research arising from a project on participatory and sustainable local-level environmental management in the peri-urban area surrounding ...