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    What makes a local organisation robust?: evidence from India and Nepal (ODI Natural Resource Perspectives)

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999
    The move towards decentralisation of resource control and management promises more efficient, equitable and sustainable resource use. Debate centres on what type of institutional arrangement in a given context is most appropriate and will lead to the fulfilment of the above ideal. Aspects of these arrangements include property rights structures as well as organisational structures.
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    Are stable agreements for sharing international river waters now possible?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Proposed here is a new scheme for allocating international river water that accounts for the stochastic nature of water supply and the dynamic nature of its demand.
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    Roads, lands, markets, and deforestation: a spatial model of land use in Belize

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Will intensifying the road network around market areas produce greater economic returns and less environmental damage than extending the road network into new areas?Rural roads promote economic development but also facilitate deforestation.
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    FAO Plan of Action for Women in Development

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999
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    Guidelines for aid agencies on global environmental problems

    Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1992
    Problems offer ways that developed countries can promote international collaboration on environmental problems which transcend boundaries to become regional or global in nature. Aid agencies are taking steps to help developing countries participate in the world-wide response, including ways to assist them to meet their obligations under international environmental agreements.
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    How prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and the environment

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    There is clearly a link between agricultural incentives and the environment, but quantitative data on such topics as soil quality and land use are inadequate for sound analysis.Mamingi studies the literature on how agricultural prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and how that supply affects the environment.
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    Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares

    OECD Development Centre, 1992
    The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.
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    ETFRN Newsletter

    European Tropical Forest Research Network, 1999
    Quarterly publication of the European Tropical Forest Research Network. Each issue contains articles dealing with research programmes and organisations involved in forest research in the tropics and subtropics, short news items, publication announcements, internet features, and requests for research cooperation. Every issue focusses on a different theme, e.g.
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    The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability: summary for policy makers (IPCC working group 2 special report, Sept 1997) html version

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1997
    The special report provides, on a regional basis, a review of (then) state-of-the-art information on the vulnerability to potential changes in climate of ecological systems, socioeconomic sectors (including agriculture, fisheries, water resources, and human settlements), and human health. The report reviews the sensitivity of these systems as well as options for adaptation.
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    Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change: technical paper for IPCC working group 2

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1996
    This Technical Paper provides an overview and analysis of technologies and measures to limit and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to enhance GHG sinks under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC).

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