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  Water rights, conflicts and collective action: case of Telugu Ganga Project, India

  Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands, 2005

  Using the case study of the Telugu Ganga Canalin India, this paper examines the process of policy making and the role of political choices in sharing scarce water resource.
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  Conservation in conflict: the impact of the Maoist-Government conflict on conservation and biodiversity in Nepal

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  Now in its ninth year of conflict between Maoists rebels and the government, Nepal has seen more than 12,000 people killed and worsening political, social, and economic instability.
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  Timber, Taylor, soldier, spy: how Liberia’s uncontrolled resource exploitation, Charles Taylor’s manipulation and the re-recruitment of excombatants are threatening regional peace

  Global Witness, 2005

  This paper demonstrates how insufficient reform of Liberia’s diamond and timber industries and failure to adequately control areas rich in natural resources have resulted in their continued exploitation and threat to regional peace and security.
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  The intersection of decentralization and conflict in natural resource management

  International Development Research Centre, 2005

  This study seeks to contribute to the analysis of decentralisation reforms by examining the role of decentralisation in generating, exacerbating or otherwise influencing conflict.
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  Water resources as a source of conflicts in Central Asia

  The Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan, 2003

  This paper analyses the problem of water resource sharing in Central Asia.
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  Conflict timber: dimensions of the problem in Asia and Africa

  ARD, Inc., 2004

  As a response to the growing recognition of the connection between forests, logging and conflict, this report provides a comprehensive examination of the economic, ecological, political, social and security dimensions of conflict timber in both Asia and Africa.The study, commissioned by USAID, identified four interrelated characteristics common to conflict timber incidents in Asia and Africa:
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  Cambodia: an assessment of forest conflict at community level

  US Agency for International Development, 2004

  This report details an assessment of community-level forest conflicts in Cambodia, with the aim of understanding the types, causes and impacts of conflicts over forest resources at the community level.
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  Natural resource conflict management case studies: an analysis of power, participation and protected areas

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This report presents a collection of case studies which focus on processes of conflict management and resolution and the different ways and means that conflicts are addressed.
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  Children in disasters: after the cameras have gone

  Plan, 2002

  Exposure to a disaster is a traumatic experience for any person, but particularly so for a child.
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  A conflict of interests: the uncertain future of Burma's forests

  Global Witness, 2004

  Burma is resource rich, and principal among these resources is timber.

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