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    By the gun or by the bribe: Firm size, environmental governance and corruption among mining companies in Guatemala

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015
    This U4 Issue discusses the corruption risks faced by mining companies in Guatemala, with a particular focus on the risks faced by small, “junior” mining companies primarily engaged in exploration.
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    Afar Resilience Study

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2015
    This paper has been prepared in conjunction with a project for resilience building in Afar National Regional State, Ethiopia under the auspices of the Afar Region Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Food Security Coordination Office and the Agriculture Knowledge Learning Documentation and Policy Project (AKLDP), Ethiopia which is implemented by the Feinstein International Center, Tufts Univer
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    Shifting security challenges in the China–Africa relationship

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    China’s involvement in African security has deepened in recent years. This policy insights paper discusses three aspects of the China–Africa security relationship to highlight some of the evolving challenges and the ways in which China responds to these.
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    Preserving the African elephant for future generations

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    African elephants face an escalating poaching crisis due to an explosion in demand for ivory, mostly in China. Over 100 000 elephants were killed illegally between 2010 and 2012. This paper synthesises the relevant economic literature on elephant conservation, which informs the construction of a game theoretic model. The model is designed to
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    Irresponsible investment: AGRICA's broken development model in Tanzania

    The Oakland Institute, 2015
    Kilombero Plantations Ltd (KPL) is a 5,818 hectare (ha) rice plantation located in the heart of the fertile Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. In addition to developing a large-scale rice farm, KPL works with local smallholder farmers through an outgrower model based on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) technologies.
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    Dead in the water - Ethical ownership and water management in the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global

    Association for International Water Studies, Norway, 2015
    The world is facing a serious water crisis with increasing water scarcity and overuse globally. The demand for water resources is growing rapidly mainly due to industrial use, and beverage companies are one of the major industrial consumers.
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    A horizon scan of environmental drivers of poverty

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    This report presents the results of a rapid desk-based study of the environmental drivers of poverty, based on a review of peer-reviewed and grey literature for the last 10 years. The major non-climate environmental drivers of poverty are identified: biodiversity loss (at the global scale) and a variety of pollution and resource degradation issues at smaller scales.
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    The silent dangers of quarrying

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    Quarrying contributes significantly to the Philippines' infrastructure and overall economic development. Notwithstanding its importance, however, it is a major natural resource extractive sector that causes significant environmental problems. And the sooner we understand the nature and extent of its destruction and be able to do something to address it, the better.
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    Violating rights and threatening lives: the Camisea Gas Project and indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation

    Forest Peoples Programme, 2014
    This report highlights the existing impacts of the Camisea gas project in the south-east Peruvian Amazon on indigenous peoples living in ‘voluntary isolation’ (‘isolated peoples’) in the Kugapakori-Nahua-Nanti and Others’ Reserve.
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    Peru’s deadly environment: the rise in killings of environmental and land defenders

    Global Witness, 2014
    The world’s attention was be on Peru December 2014, as governments from 195 countries convened in the capital Lima for the UN Climate Conference. As delegates negotiated a global deal aimed at averting catastrophic climate change, a parallel human rights crisis is still unfolding in Peru and around the world.

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