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    Impact of disasters on the education sector in Cambodia

    Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 2008
    Natural disasters can cause terrible loss of life. However what is perhaps most disturbing are their impact on the most vulnerable, in institutions where safety should be paramount i.e. patients stranded in hospitals and children at their desks in schools.
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    Planning for change: guidelines for national programmes on sustainable consumption and production

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2008
    In the context of climate change, it has become clear that our global community urgently needs to adopt more sustainable life-styles to both reduce the use of natural resources and CO2 emissions.
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    Gender and equity issues in liquid biofuels production - minimizing the risks to maximize the opportunities

    Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2008
    The production of liquid biofuels such as bioethanol and biodiesel is rapidly increasing in developing countries, due mainly to the establishment of large-scale biofuel feedstock plantations. This results in potential socio-economic benefits, particularly in terms of agricultural employment, but also in risks, which tend to be context-specific.
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    Preparing for a warmer world: towards a global governance system to protect climate refugees

    Global Governance Project, 2007
    Climate change threatens to cause the largest refugee crisis in human history.
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    Carbon market opportunities for the forestry sector of Africa

    Winrock International, 2008
    African countries have not benefited greatly from the carbon market. This publication analyses how the implementation of the forestry carbon projects could be a major strategy to combat climate change in Africa.
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    The economic impact of climate change in Namibia: how climate change will affect the contribution of Namibia’s natural resources to its economy

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    Climate change is likely to exacerbate the dry conditions already experienced in Southern Africa; but these predictions gain little policy attention in Southern African countries. This paper discusses how Namibia must take steps to provide some economic indicators of how climate change will affect the country and ensure that all its policies and activities are ‘climate proofed’.
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    Food and energy sovereignty now: Brazilian grassroots position on agroenergy

    The Oakland Institute, 2008
    Brazil is the global leader in ethanol exports, providing 70% of the world's supply in 2006. While official accounts of the Brazilian government’s experiment with biofuels laud it as a global model for sustainable biomass production, it is increasingly being criticised and opposed by national social movements.
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    Rehabilitating degraded land

    New Agriculturalist, 2008
    Across vast areas of the world, human activity has degraded once fertile and productive land. Deforestation, overgrazing, continuous farming and poor irrigation practices have affected almost 2 billion hectares worldwide, threatening the health and livelihoods of over one billion people.
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    Land suitability evaluation with a case map of Aceh Barat district

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2007
    This booklet was prepared after the December 2004 tsunami caused serious damage to agricultural land, soils and vegetation along the coastal areas of Aceh, Indonesia. The booklet is a guideline for the district government of Aceh Barat for spatial lay-outing of tree crops suitable for its coastal areas.
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    Climate Witness community toolkit

    WWF South Pacific programme, 2007
    The South Pacific region is among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. With an almost complete reliance on natural resources for subsistence living and economic development, the changes occurring in sea levels, weather and rainfall patterns will have an enormous impact on local communities.

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