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- The Amazon forest and climate change: are we reaching an ecological tipping point?
- ( WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature , 2007)
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The Amazon forest greatly influences the global climate and may be coming under increasing threat due to climate change. This report explores the relationship between the Amazon, climate, and the c...
- Moments that forged a Brazilian environmental social movement
- ( A. Alonso; V. Costa; D. Maciel / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2005)
- Drawing on new perspectives for analysing social movements, this paper blends a variety of concepts – political opportunity structure, micro-mobilisation contexts, collective identity formation, frami...
- The environmental and social costs of illegal logging and plywood production from Papua New Guinea’s rainforests
- ( Greenpeace International , 2005)
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This document traces the production of Chinese hardwood and plywood from its origins in the forests of Papua New Guinea to the sweatshops of China and on to British builders and merchants.
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- Illegal logging in Burma
- ( Global Witness , 2005)
- This report argues for an end to unsustainable and destructive illegal logging in Burma’s north forests. Whilst the logging itself is mostly managed by relevant authorities in Burma, much of the timbe...
- Palm oil plantations threaten extinction of the orang-utan in Malaysia and Indonesia
- ( Friends of the Earth , 2005)
- This report discusses the imminent threat of extinction to orang-utan in Malaysia and Indonesia bought about by the production of palm oil (a source of vegetable oil). The orang-utan is a flagship spe...
- Community forest rights failed to prevent deforestation in the North East hill regions
- ( A. Saikia / Gauhati University, Assam, India , 2005)
- The Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India, enacted fifty years ago, allows autonomy to tribal communities in administrative, legislative and financial matters and was supposed to protect them fr...
- Summary report on the negative impacts of palm oil cultivation in Southeast Asia
- ( Friends of the Earth , 2003)
- This report summarises two separate Friends of the Earth reports on, respectively, the increasing demand for palm oil in developed countries, and the social and environmental impacts of palm oil culti...
- The impact of globalisation on rainforest loss
- ( World Rainforest Movement , 2003)
- This paper assesses the underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation and the forces behind unsustainable agriculture. It demonstrates the far-reaching consequences of globalisation, in te...
- Slash and burn – are shifting cultivators harming forests?
- ( David Brown;Kate Schreckenberg / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002)
- Everyone agrees that logging and agriculture can cause deforestation. But does shifting cultivation, or ‘slash and burn’ farming destroy forests particularly? Are local farmers solely to blame? Recent...
- Review of law enforcement in the forestry sector in Cambodia
- ( Global Witness , 2002)
- This report examines evidence of illegal logging that Global Witness has submitted to the Royal Government of Cambodia as part of the Forest Crimes Monitoring and Reporting Project and reviews the ac...
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