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  Towards integrated natural resources management (INRM) in dry areas subject to land degradation: the example of the Khanasser valley in Syria

  International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, 2008

  Using the Khanasser Valley in Syria as an example, this paper looks at Integrated Natural Resource management (INRM) as an approach to tackle land degradation. The authors argue that INRM is a better approach because of its comprehensive nature and simplification of the inherently complex socio-ecological systems.
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  Securing water to enhance local livelihoods: guidelines for implementing a water and livelihoods planning process

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2004

  This file, designed for water sector and rural development practitioners, contains detailed guidelines for implementing a water and livelihoods planning process.
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  Livelihoods, community well-being, and species conservation: a guide for understanding, evaluating and improving the links in the context of Marine Turtle programs

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006

  How can we identify and monitor the relationships between livelihoods and conservation? What framework can best capture these links? This WWF publication takes marine turtle conservation as a thread to illustrate the linkages between community well-being and the state of the natural environment, and the impacts that each has on the other.
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  Secure water?: poverty, livelihoods and demand-responsive approaches

  Overseas Development Institute, 2008

  This article conceptualises a methodological framework called Secure Water Assessment (SWA) which offers a way of thinking through the complex and multiple linkages between water, poverty and livelihoods. The objective of SWA is to find a balance between financial sustainability of water supply and poverty reduction.
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  The productive use of domestic water supplies: how water supplies can play a wider role in livelihood improvement and poverty reduction

  IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2008

  Contrary to the beliefs of many planners and engineers, large quantities of any 'domestic' water supply are used for 'non-domestic' productive purposes. People do not just drink water, or use it to wash or cook. They use it to grow crops, water livestock, produce goods, and provide services in and around the household.
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  Beyond tenure: rights based approaches to peoples and forests. Some lessons from the Forest Peoples Programme

  The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2008

  Although the historical focus on tenure reforms has resulted in some important improvements in the livelihoods of forest communities, it has not prevented them from suffering social exclusion and impoverishment.
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  World resources 2008: roots of resilience—growing the wealth of the poor

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2008

  Three-quarters of the world’s poorest citizens – those living on less than $2 per day – are dependent on the environment for a significant part of their daily livelihoods. But the world’s natural resources are increasingly being degraded amidst climate change and population growth.
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  The reality of trying to transform structures and processes: forestry in rural livelihoods

  Overseas Development Institute, 2000

  What are the key constraints to improving forest based livelihoods within the forest sector? What are the key relationships that provide the institutional context in which forest based livelihoods operate? The authors focus on a forestry project in Karnataka, India to illustrate the processes and problems of supporting livelihood change in the forestry institutional environment.
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  The nature and role of local benefits in GEF program areas: methodology

  Global Environment Facility, 2003

  Do projects advancing global environmental goals generate benefits to local livelihoods? How do local livelihood benefits contribute to global environmental goals? This report, prepared by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), Office of Monitoring and Evaluation, sets out the methodology to be used for an (ongoing) review of projects in the GEF portfolio.
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  Sustainable livelihood opportunities and resource management in coastline communes facing special difficulties

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  What are the livelihoods and poverty issues facing coastline communes in Vietnam? How can poverty alleviation programmes best respond to them? This publication reports on research carried out for the Government of Vietnam to inform a new national programme supporting infrastructure development in coastal areas exposed to harsh conditions.

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