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Searching with a thematic focus on Environment in Indonesia

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  Above the law: corruption, collusion, nepotism and the fate of Indonesia’s forests

  Environmental Investigation Agency, UK, 2002

  This campaign document states that despite logging bans in Indonesia, local corruption in government and the judiciary is rampant and officials are tacitly allowing the continued destruction of forests.The document discusses evidence of the involvement of law officials and the military. It discusses the environmental implications of logging on such a scale in protected areas.
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  Forests, people and rights

  Down to Earth: International Campaign for Ecological Justice in Indonesia, 2002

  This report details the status and history of forests and their ownership in Indonesia. It states that a huge amount of the country's forests have been destroyed and that rights and ownership have been handed to large companies and corrupt government friends.
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  Conserving the peace: resources, livelihoods and security

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2002

  This book developed from meetings between conservationists and those in the UK government concerned with security and conflict prevention.The book is based on the premise that environmental mismanagement and resource scarcity, alone or in conjunction with other forces, can have such a destabilizing impact on communities and societies that they may experience high levels of insecurity and even s
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  Forest fire and biological diversity

  Unasylva, FAO, 2002

  Although a number of studies have taken place into the ecosystem effects of fires on forests, few have looked their biodiversity implications.The authors briefly outline ecosystem impacts of fires on a global, regional and local level.
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  Community based fire management, land tenure and conflict: insights from Sumatra

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2001

  In response to the many highly damaging fires that have occurred in Indonesia, destroying large tracts of forest and causing high levels of damaging carbon emissions, community based management is often recommended as the answer to fire control.Traditional knowledge of fire and its management can be effective in managing both forests and fires, but, this paper argues, very little evaluation of
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  Fire use, peatland transformation and local livelihoods

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2001

  The biodiversity and carbon sequestration value of tropical peatlands is damaged by logging, burning, drainage and other activities. In many cases this may also damage local livelihood benefits such as fisheries support.
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  Collection of coral reef fish for aquaria: global trade, conservation issues and management strategies

  Marine Conservation Society, 2001

  The ornamental fish trade is a multi-million dollar industry, with fisheries operating all around the tropical world. Currently about 45 countries supply the market.
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  Advanced remote sensing techniques for forestry applications: a case study in Sarawak

  Treemail, 2000

  This paper describes how timber volumes can now be assessed from satellite images.The authors use an operational commercial case study of forest concessions in Sarawak to illustrate the application of the remote sensing techniques employed. The technique is expected to be used in the monitoring of carbon sequestration.
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  Tourism conservation and sustainable development

  Department for International Development, UK, 1997

  This is the first, introductory volume of a report and case studies looking at the benefits and costs of tourism to national parks.
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  Integration of biodiversity into national forestry sector

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2002

  This report is one of eight thematic reviews prepared for the Biodiversity Planning Support Programme (BPSP), a programme created to help countries strengthen national capacity to prepare and implement National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans in compliance with Article 6 of the Convention on Biological Diversity.The study includes a synthesis report on integration of biodiversity into

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