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Monday, 14 June 2010 18:19 administrator
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To support sustainable development within the Pacific, SOPAC has become increasingly involved in the economic analysis of natural resources in recent years. Economic analysis has been or is being conducted across all three technical programmes: Community Risk, Community Lifelines and Oceans and Islands. The work takes the form of economic or financial feasibility assessments, economic impact assessments, institutional analysis or training to support the sustainability of resource management.

There is a strong focus in the work on producing real outcomes, particularly to advocate for more sustainable use of natural resources at the national level and to support behavioural change at the user level. There is also an emphasis on the wide distribution of findings to different audiences. Findings are disseminated through personal presentations at community, national and international meetings, reports and pamphlets in different languages, television and radio broadcasts and documentaries.

SOPAC is a co-founder of the PREEN (Pacific Resource and Environmental Economics Network)

http://www.iucn.org/about/union/secretariat/offices/oceania/oro_initiatives/oro_initiatives_pceg/oro_initiatives_pceg_preen/


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Last Updated on Monday, 25 July 2011 10:54  


Newsflash

With fisheries as Kiribati’s main economic resource for a growing population, there is an imperative to find other income sources.

“This is where seabed mineral exploration and mining is important,” said Mr Tearinaki Tanielu, a Geologist, working as the Minerals Officer for the Kiribati Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development.

“As a nation we are working toward adding more prosperity for people to make their lives better, but at the same time with little or no impact on our environment.”

He said that on a global level, seabed systems are not fully understood, and that there are policy and knowledge gaps that need to be addressed, adding greater complexity to the whole issue, and that it would be necessary for Kiribati to first develop technical and scientific knowledge and the appropriate policies so that the country has the capacity to undertake deep seabed mineral exploration and exploitation.