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Searching with a thematic focus on Environment, Environment and Forestry, forestry deforestation

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  Krismon, farmers and forests: the effects of the economic crisis on farmers’ livelihoods and forest use in the outer islands of Indonesia

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1999

  Presents some preliminary results on the impact of the economic crisis on farmers’ livelihood and forest use, based on fieldwork in four provinces in Indonesia (Riau, West and East Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi). Stresses the great variation throughout the country, and the volatility of the situation.
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  Rates and Processes of Amazon Deforestation

  Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, 1997
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  Policy for Plenty: Measuring the Benefits of Policy-Oriented Social Science Research

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998

  Suggests practical methods for assessing policy research programs, both ex post and ex ante.
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  Special report on land use, land use change and forestry: summary for policymakers [climate change]

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2000

  Reviews the current understanding of the relationship between land use (especially forestry), carbon dioxide emissions and the Kyoto Protocol agreementsTopics cover: how the global carbon cycle operates, and how this relates to forestry activitiesaccounting rulescomparison of the usefulness of models and ground-based assessments of changes in carbon stocksshort term prospect
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  How the location of roads and protected areas affects deforestation in North Thailand

  World Bank, 2001

  This article discusses the extent to which the location of roads s and protected areas affects deforestation in North Thailand. The article stresses that establishing protected areas (national parks together with wildlife sanctuaries) in North Thailand did not reduce the likelihood of forest clearing, but wildlife sanctuaries may have reduced the probability of deforestation.
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  The Economic Valuation of Tropical Forest Land Use Options: A Manual for Researchers

  IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1998

  Manual for researchers in Southeast Asia involved in the economic evaluation of tropical forest land use options. It was developed initially to serve as an aid to Cambodian researchers in the execution of an EEPSEA-financed study of non-timber forest values in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia.
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  Forests in global warming

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 1998

  Reviews the causes of deforestation, focusing on the market distortions which hide the real economic value of forests. These include taxation polciy, uncertain property rights and population growth. Adressing such issues at the nationnal level provides a basis for national and international agreements on combatting climate change through carbon storage programmes.
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  Paper tiger, hidden dragons: the responsibility of international financial institutions for Indonesian forest destruction, social conflict and the financial crisis of Asia Pulp & Paper

  Friends of the Earth, 2001

  This report documents the environmental and social impacts of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), assesses the role of international financial institutions in fuelling APP’s unsustainable and damaging operations and examines the link between this unsustainable practice and APP's financial crisis.Financial institutions should acknowledge that it is far more than the financial failure of APP that proves tha

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