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  Cameroon's Logging Industry: Structure, Economic Importance and Effects of Devaluation

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1998

  Aims to describe the current structure of the Cameroon logging industry, assess its importance within Cameroon's economy, and analyse recent development which the industry has experienced since the devaluation of the CFA franc in January 1994.
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  Market Based Instruments For Environmental Policymaking In Latin America And The Caribbean: Lessons From Eleven Countries

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 1998

  Study of market-based instruments, focusing on 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela) and a cross-section of issues (water supply and abstraction, water quality, air quality, energy, solid and liquid waste management, toxic substances, noise, and agriculture) within an urban s
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  Empowering The Community: Information Strategies For Pollution Control

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 1998

  Disclosure strategies, which involve public and/or private attempts to increase the availability of information on pollution, form the basis for what some have called the third wave in pollution control policy (after legal regulation--the first wave--and market-based instruments --the second wave).
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  Forest Resources Assessment 1990: Global Synthesis

  Forest Resources Assessment and National Forestry Action Plans (NFAP), FAO, 1995

  Report brings together the core of comparable information on the forest of all regions of the world, by country, based on FAO’s forest resources assessment 1990. Main issues are the situation in 1990 and the changes between 1980 and 1990 in the area of forest and other wooded land. Woody biomass is another important issue.
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  Biodiversity Conservation in the Tropics - gaps in habitat protected and funding priorities

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1997

  Study makes use of extensive spatial datasets, not previously available, to provide a comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of biodiversity throughout the tropics. The extent to which potential habitats and closed moist forests are represented in protected areas is assessed.
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  Farmers’ knowledge of indigenous tree cultivation around Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park

  Latam-econ, 1998

  Article presents the results of a study carried out around Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park (Uganda), where a project had been started to cultivate indigenous trees. It assesses the local knowledge pertaining to the cultivation of these trees, as well as constraints on indigenous tree cultivation.
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  Cloud Forests in the Humid Tropics: A Bibliographic Review

  United Nations University, 1987

  Study has the following principal objectives: a) provide a detailed description of the state of knowledge of cloud forests in the humid tropics; considering and evaluating all related disciplines b) provide a complete bibliography on the topic, including all relevant references c) point out the limits and gaps in present knowledge d) propose efforts to broaden and strengthen the current state of k
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  Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity: The Economic Myths

  GRAIN, 1999

  Examines the economic costs and benefits of the WTO's Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), with special regard for developing countries and their wealth of biological diversity.
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  Financing Forest Investments in Latin America: The Issue of Incentives

  1998

  Argues that, while the most effective vehicles for obtaining significant levels of forest investment are probably macro-economic, political, and institutional reforms that create a better climate for private sector investment, there is still a role to be played by financial incentives for forest investment and conservation because forestation programs may provide important positive ecological and
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  Environment benefits from removing trade restrictions and distortions: background for WTO negotiations

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  The interaction between environmental policies and trade policies emerged as an issue at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.

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