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  Management Regimes established for REDD+ and their Adaptability to the Institutional and Ecological Conditions: A case of Ongo Community Forest, Masindi District, Uganda

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015

  This  report is one of the outputs of theproject “Man and forests – an  evaluation  of  management strategies for reduced deforestation” which aimed at evaluating the different  management strategies  undertaken  to  obtain  reduced  deforestation  in  tropical  forests  and  hence  maintain 
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  Major constraints of the Environmental Impact Assessment process in Botswana

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015

  Botswana has adopted environmental assessments (EAs) as a tool to protect the environment against the adverse impact of developments. Botswana’s first EA legislation was enacted in 2005 and revised in 2010, with the accompanying regulations approved in
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  Grenada national protected areas GAP assessment

  The Nature Conservancy, 2007

  The objective of this analysis was to understand a baseline in 2007 of how well the system of protected areas represents Grenada’s biodiversity and what actions could be taken to ensure good representation of that biodiversity.
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  Fourth national report of Grenada to the convention on biological diversity

  2009

  Grenada in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme commissioned the elaboration of the Fourth National Report to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity in accordance with Article 26 of the Convention and COP Decision VIII/14 in 2007.
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  Mid-term review of the Oil for Development (OfD) Programme in Tanzania

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2015
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  Nature Index Costa Rica: an IPBES pilot project

  Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 2014

  The “Nature Index Costa Rica” (NI-CR)  has  been  a  one-year  pilot  project  to demonstrate and promote the  capacity-building objectives of the Intergovernmental Platform on  Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
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  Final report: scoping study for a non-renewable resources, climate change and environmental programme in Southern Africa

  Evidence on Demand, 2015

  DFID commissioned a scoping study to assess the Extractive Industry (EI) sector’s environmental and climate change impacts, status and prospects of GHG emissions, and how both impacts and GHG emissions could be mitigated in the sector.
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  Locating human-wildlife interactions: Landscape constructions and responses to large carnivore conservation in India and Norway

  Conservation and Society, 2015

  People's reactions to large carnivores take many forms, ranging from support and coexistence to resistance and conflict. While these reactions are the outcome of many different factors, in this paper we specifically explore the link between social constructions of landscapes and divergent responses to large carnivore presence.
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  Corruption and state-corporate crime in fisheries

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015

  This U4 Issue paper describes corruption in the fisheries sector through the lens of state-corporate crime. It presents a case study from Senegal where Russian, European and Asian fishing firms, supported by their home governments, gained access to overfished stocks that are vital to local food security and the artisanal fishing sector.
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  Alternatives to local content

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2015

  This paper by Ivar Kolstad and Abel Kinyondo suggests that an optimal local content policy in the context of flawed institutions is a more minimal one than those typically pursued by developing countries with recently discovered petroleum reserves.

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