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  Strengthening environmental law compliance and enforcement in Indonesia: towards improved environmental stringency and environmental performance

  International Development Law Organisation, 2006

  This paper outlines the major challenges to environmental law and enforcement in Indonesia. It reviews environmental issues and highlights conflicts between economic growth and managing natural ecosystems whilst suggesting strategies learned from an Indonesia-Australia training project.
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  The Chad-Cameroon oil & pipeline project: a project non-compliance report

  Forest Peoples Programme, 2007

  This report assesses the role of the World Bank in the funding and management of the Chad-Cameroon oil and pipeline project. The report argues that the project has fueled violence, impoverished people in the oil fields and along the pipeline route, exacerbated the pressures on indigenous peoples and created new environmental problems.
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  Cape Flats Nature

  This partnership builds good practice in sustainable management of nature sites in the City of Cape Town’s Biodiversity Network in a people-centred way that develops local leadership for conserv
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  Networking people and nature in the city: inspiration, issues and challenges

  Cape Flats Nature, 2006

  This booklet discusses the work being done by Cape Flats Nature to build a pioneering partnership that tests, experiments and develops an alternative, social nature conservation practice in impoverished urban areas.
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  World’s top 10 rivers at risk

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2007

  This report illustrates how the world’s great river basins are fast dying as a result of over-extraction, dams and infrastructure development, invasive species, climate change, over-fishing, and pollution.
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  A funny place to store carbon: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda

  World Rainforest Movement, 2006

  This report documents human rights abuses at Mount Elgon National Park in east Uganda, where a Dutch foundation plants trees for the purpose of carbon offsetting.
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  Forests, illegality, and livelihoods in Cameroon

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2006

  This paper addresses the state of illegal forest activities (IFA) in Cameroon with particular attention to environmental outcomes and implications for livelihoods.
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  Regulating the commons in Mauritania: local agreements as a tool for sustainable natural resource management

  International Association for the Study of Common Property, 2006

  Natural resource management is Mauritania is a complex pluri-legal affair, with tribal law, colonial French law and modern state law coexisting and often contradicting. One approach of dealing with these codes, and at the same time, the various stakeholders, is to establish local agreements (LAs).
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  Payments for environmental services: a solution for biodiversity conservation?

  Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) / Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, 2006

  Can biodiversity be conserved through direct payments to landholders to adopt sustainable land-use practices?
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  Valuing wetlands: guidance for valuing the benefits derived from wetland ecosystem services

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2006

  This guide aims to assist Ramsar-Convention stakeholders in having economic valuation information better available for decision-making on wetlands. The report outlines a framework which should assist readers to conduct an integrated assessment of wetland ecosystem services, and it sets out five key steps in undertaking a wetland valuation assessment.

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