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  What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from Satellite and Socioeconomic Data

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Road network expansion is strongly associated with increased deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Pfaff analyzes the determinants of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
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  Was Mrs Mutendi only joking? Access to timber in Zimbabwe's communal areas. [Campfire Programme]

  Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources, 1999
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  Tragedy of the Commons for Community-based Forest Management in Latin America?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997

  This paper considers the evidence surrounding the popular view that common property management regimes (CPMRs) of forest management in Latin America must inevitably break down in the face of economic and demographic pressures. The evidence shows that there have been both positive and negative experiences, with a number of policy implications.
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  Ancestor Spirits and Land Reforms: Contradictory discourses and practices on rights on land in South India

  Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, 1999

  This paper is about Untouchable ancestors' strong emotional attachment to their ancestral land. Ancestrors of Untouchables remain in their ancestral land at the margin of the village, whereas ancestors of high castes leave for the abode of ancestors, after expiating their sins by transferring them to Untouchables.
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  Paradigm Case Illustrations of Incremental Cost Analysis

  Program for Measuring Incremental Costs for the Evironment, GEF, 1999

  The application of the incremental cost assessment to biodiversity has always been uncertain. This paper seeks to demonstrate that the concept is a workable one in biodiversity. This paper has a twofold aim:1. to make explicit the strategic and logical approach to incremental cost assessment- to demonstrate that it is replicable and applicable to all GEF projects2.
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  Logs or Local Livelihood?: The Case for Legalizing Community Control of Forest Lands in Ratanakiri, Cambodia

  IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1997

  A recent eighteen-month economic study of the benefits of alternative uses of forest and in Ratanakiri province recommends the exclusion of customary forest land from current and future commercial concessions.
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  Land, Forests and People in Finnish Aid in Zanzibar: Some Preliminary Observations

  Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998

  Sets out to examine the question of aid provision. As part of a general study on Finnish aid, the main focus is on two projects in Zanzibar: Zanzibar Forestry Project (ZFP) and Zanzibar Integrated Lands and Environment Management (ZILEM) project. This study centres on initial research carried out in Dar es Salaam (documentary) and Unguja (documentary, observational and in-depth interviews).
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  Who owns the ecosystem?

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  Paper is about how human society organizes its proprietary relationship to the biosphere and, in particular, the property implications of ecosystem management. Our premise is that ecosystem management is endangered by its "bigger-is-better" bias, the potential source of public backlash among landowners.
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  Forests in Sustainable Development: guidelines for forest sector development cooperation

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 1998

  Paper defines a strategy for forest sector development, and translates it for practical application. In response to the causes of deforestation and desertification, which are rooted in a complex web of socio-economic factors (both inside and, mainly, outside the forests) these guidelines are centred on the needs of people living in and making a living from forests.
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  Habari ya maendeleo ya Tanzania - 28. A bibliography on recent articles on Tanzanian development studies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  Regularly published index to journal articles on Tanzania

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