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Contents below:
· General information
· Institutions
~ International organizations
~ Government
~ Research
~ NGOs
· Environmental law
· Climate change & energy
· Biodiversity
· Select readings on Zambia
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General information
· Fighting Poverty in Zambia: Statistics, Facts, Map of Poverty in Zambia
· "FINCA helps Zambians living in poverty access financial services to improve the quality of life for
themselves and their families."
· The Change Drivers: "Socio-economic changes, economic growth and environmental degradation,
policy and legislation changes, developments in the agriculture sector and their implications on
forestry, changes in energy use and their implications on forestry..."
· Shows where certain minerals are located in the country.
· About water resources in Zambia, including different bodies of water and groundwater development.
Institutions
~ International ~
Zambia @ UN Development Programme
~ Government ~
Wildlife Crime Prevention (WCP) Zambia
· List of programmes; Details of work done by local organization
~ Research ~
International Growth Centre: Environmental quality and economic development in Zambia
· "...this project...sought to construct a database of environmental policies and regulations and their
implementation to provide a base for more research on the impacts of environmental quality on
economic outcomes and, in turn, the effects of rapid development on environmental quality"
~ Nongovernmental organizations ~
Wildlife and Environmental Conservation Society of Zambia
· List of programmes; Details of work done by local organization
WWF: Environmental Problems in Zambia
Environmental law
Environmental regulations for mining activities in Zambia
· Answers questions pertaining to environmental laws, regulations, and policies for mining in Zambia
Climate change & energy
Climate of Zambia @ Blue Green Atlas
· Provides data & maps on Zambia's climate.
Zambia @ World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal
· Overview of climate change in Zambia including many graphs.
· Provides information about Zambia's energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
UNFCCC: Zambia and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
· Links to official documents, reports, legislation and policies
Stockholm Environment Insitute: Zambia's adaptation to climate change
· "The conflicting discourse within policy documents reflects a country’s challenges in addressing
both adaptation needs and economic development."
Zambia Environmental and Climate Change Policy Brief
· ResearchGate: Technical Report (PDF Download Available)
· "aims at briefly presenting key environmental sustainability challenges and opportunities (including
climate change and disaster risk reduction) in Zambia, their linkages to poverty reduction and
economic development and how they are addressed in the Zambian Sixth National Development
Plan (SNDP)."
Zambia @ UN REDD+ Web Platform
· ”The overall goal of the network is to promote the sharing of climate change and climate related
information among the general membership and greater public in order to enhance effective
advocacy and stakeholder engagement in the climate change and environmental debate at local,
national, regional and international levels."
REDD+ in Zambia @ USAID
Biodiversity
Select readings on Zambia
Environmental Protection and Economic Development in Zambia
· Journal of Social Development in Africa (1996), 11, 2, 57-72
· "Despite the government's efforts to control environmental degradation through enactment of a comprehensive
environmental law and structures for that purpose, financial constraints and low priority accorded to this area
in the face of an economic crisis makes it difficult to realise the goal of environmental protection."
· Referred to on African e-Journals Project WebPage
Policy options for the sustainable development of Zambia's electricity sector
· SciFlo: Journal of Energy in Southern Africa
· "This paper aims at understanding how Zambia's electricity system would be affected by droughts (due to a dry
year) and how the system's adaptive capacity could be improved."
Success in integrating conservation and development? A study from Zambia
· "This critical review examines the impact of the Luangwa Integrated Resource Development Project (LIRDP) at
the community level."
Creating and protecting Zambia's wealth: Experience and next steps in environmental mainstreaming