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  The Amazon’s vicious cycles: drought and fire in the greenhouse - ecological and climatic tipping points of the world’s largest tropical rainforest, and practical preventive measures

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2007

  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 changes in this relationship that are underway as a result of forest destruction and the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.
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  Potential and challenges of payments for ecosystem services from tropical forests

  Policy and Environment Programme, ODI, 2008

  ‘Forest carbon’ has taken centre stage due to the urgency to mitigate climate change. One possible avenue to conserve carbon storing forests is through “payments for ecosystem services” (PES) schemes, which are voluntary or conditional agreements between a seller and buyer of environmental services.
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  Conflict-sensitive business practice: guidance for commercial reforestation in Colombia

  International Alert, 2006

  This manual is an adapted version of the Conflict-Sensitive Business Practice (CSBP) toolbox which applies the CSBP methodology to the Colombian reforestation sector in Colombia. The manual discusses the national information related to planted forests as well as conflict management and resolution.
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  Convergence between certification and verification in the drive to legality assurance: assessing the pros and cons

  VERIFOR, 2007

  This brief highlights two different approaches to regulating trade in timber resources: certification and verification.
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  Can payments for avoided deforestation to tackle climate change also benefit the poor?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  Avoided deforestation (AD) has become a global concern with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This paper discusses financial incentive schemes to reduce rates of deforestation and forest degradation in tropical countries may be established and considers some of the issues from the perspective of host countries and the forest-dependent poor.
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  Forest ethics: the role of ethical dialogue in the fate of the forests

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  Natural forests, particularly tropical rainforests cannot compete, in terms of revenue generated per unit area, with land use alternatives (such as cattle, soybean or palm oil). Yet continued conversion of natural forests to other land uses may have catastrophic consequences for global human well being.
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  Time and temperance: how perceptions of time shape forest ethics and practice

  Forestry and Land Use Programme, IIED, 2005

  This paper argues that natural forests cannot compete in terms of generating revenue per unit area with land use alternatives such as intensive agriculture or forest plantations.
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  Assessment of non-wood forest products and their role in the livelihoods of rural communities in the Gash-Barka region, Eritrea

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2006

  In Eritrea, forest resources and vegetation cover are under serious threat and both the areas under forest cover and their quality are declining.
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  A choice for China: ending the destruction of Burma’s northern frontier forests

  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 timber is exported illegally to China.
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  Deforestation, floods and state reactions in China and Thailand

  Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, 2002

  What factors motivate developing countries to prevent deforestation, which can cause serious environmental damage, such as flooding? Do democratic states take action more effectively than authoritarian states?

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