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    Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), University of Oxford (QEH)

    The Department of International Development (QEH) is the University of Oxford's centre for development studies and forms part of the Social Sciences Division of the University.
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    Peri-urban water conflicts: supporting dialogue and negotiation

    IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2007
    As cities expand, a key challenge is securing water supplies for urban populations and disposing of pollution while minimising impacts on peri-urban communities and the environment.  This book describes the conflicts, dialogues and negotiations underway in peri-urban areas of many cities in the South. 
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    Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

    The Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) is an independent unit of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with close ties to the Department of Economics.
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    Monitoring land cover dynamics in sub-saharan Africa

    European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2006
    Over the last 25 years civil disturbances, drought, population increases and global market pressures have all contributed in direct and indirect ways to a modification of Sub saharan African land cover. 
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    Commitment to Development Index 2007

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
    Since 2003, the Center for Global Development has published the Commitment to Development Index (CDI), an annual ranking list of 21 donor countries to assess the coherence of their development policies. In particular, the CDI assesses how much rich countries help poor countries build prosperity, good government, and security.
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    Sudan post-conflict environmental assessment

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2007
    Despite a peace agreement with the south and a fast-growing economy, Sudan faces critical environmental issues including land degradation, deforestation and the impacts of climate change, that threaten the Sudanese people’s prospects for long-term peace, food security and sustainable development.
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    Dev-Zone

    This resources aims to inform and educate New Zealanders about international development and global issues.
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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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    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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    Green giant or straw man?: environmental pressure and civil conflict, 1961–99

    International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2006
    This paper explores the relationship between environmental scarcity and conflict. It finds that there is little if any evidence for a connection between environmental scarcity and the onset of civil conflict.

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