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    Changing Taiga: Challenges for Mongolia’s Reindeer Herders

    GRID Arendal, 2012
    Mongolia’s reindeer herders and their taiga homeland are today facing unprecedented challenges from unregulated mining, forest logging, loss of access to natural resources, tourism, and climate change. The Dukha herders and their ancestors have lived for centuries in this fragile transition region on the edge of the steppes, practising an ancient and unique form of reindeer husbandry and helping
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    Analysing REDD+. Challenges and choices

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2012
    This is the third book in a series of highly recognised REDD+ volumes from CIFOR. It provides an analysis of actual REDD+ design and early implementation, based on a large research project – the Global Comparative Study on REDD+ (GCS).
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    Safeguarding REDD+ finance: ensuring transparent and accountable international financial flows

    Global Witness, 2012
    Funding forest protection in developing countries poses numerous financial risks, from inefficient allocation through to mismanagement of funds, misappropriation and corruption; detailed measures will be needed to ensure effective, transparent and accountable financial flows if greenhouse gas emissions from forest loss are to be reduced.
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    Water and energy dynamics in the Greater Himalayan region: opportunities for environmental peacebuilding

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2011
    The water crisis in the Greater Himalayas constitutes an enormous challenge for the region and a growing, if still under-reported, concern in the West. Elements of the crisis include floods and droughts, unpredictable changes in the timing of water flows, hydropower rivalries and persistently unsafe drinking water.
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    Mapping of Norwegian civil society organizations working on energy and sustainable development

    ECON Pöyry, 2011
    This study provides a mapping of Norwegian CSOs working on energy and development issues in developing countries and an overview assessment of how the CSOs fit with the priorities of the Norwegian Government’s Clean Energy for Development Initiative.
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    China, India, South Africa, Brazil (BASIC): Crucial for the global environment. Commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment

    ECON Pöyry, 2011
    This study, commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Environment, aims to assess why and how the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China) are important for the global environment. The study shall also provide an overview of environmental policy in the BASIC countries.
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    Beyond carbon: rights-based safeguard principles in law

    Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2010
    The aim of climate change mitigation and adaptation programs are to protect all the Earth’s inhabitants from the serious threats posed by climate change. Safeguards ensure both mitigation and adaptation activities truly address these purposes.
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    Nile issues: small streams from the Nile Basin Research Programme

    Nile Basin Research Programme, University of Bergen, 2010
    The Nile Basin Research Programme (NBRP), as a strategic, multidisciplinary programme for research and higher education on topics related to the Nile Basin, has had the overall aim to enhance and promote quality research on Nile-related issues and to support research collaboration between institutions in the Nile Basin region.
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    Pastoral pathways: climate change adaptation lessons from Ethiopia

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011
    A key aim of the Norwegian Development Fund is to increase the adaptive capacity of marginalised rural poor farmers and pastoralists in the South.  The focus country of this project study, Ethiopia, has a legacy of variable and unpredictable rainfall, causing frequent droughts and heavy floods, undermining local as well as national food and water security.  The analysis in this paper is
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    Bioforsk / Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research

    Bioforsk conducts applied and specifically targeted research linked to multifunctional agriculture and rural development, plant sciences, environmental protection and natural resource management.

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