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  Deforestation, floods and state reactions in China and Thailand

  Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, 2002

  What factors motivate developing countries to prevent deforestation, which can cause serious environmental damage, such as flooding? Do democratic states take action more effectively than authoritarian states?
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  Public participation in national biotechnology policy and biosafety regulation

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper explores the challenges entailed in applying the principles and methods of public participation to national and international policy processes.
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  Air quality estimates in Taiyan, Shanxi Province, China

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2003
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  Strategies for controlling pollution from vehicular emissions in Beijing

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2002
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  Can the clean development mechanism attain both cost effectiveness and sustainable development objectives?

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2001

  This paper looks at both the back ground of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and discusses to what extent its current design allows it to achieve both its objectives as defined in the Kyoto Protocol: to promote sustainable development in host developing countries, and to improve global cost-effectiveness by assisting developed countries in meeting their Kyoto targets.The first part of the
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  Biodiversity protection and the search for sustainability in Tibetan Plateau Grasslands (Qinghai, China)

  Plateau Perspectives, 2000

  This PhD dissertation looks at policies for protecting the native biodiversity of the Tibetan plateau and seeking sustainable development opportunities for this economically poor region Grassroots participation in conservation and development now is increasing in China.
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  Domesticating global policy on GMOs: comparing China and India

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This IDS working paper compares the way in which two leading developing countries in the global debate on biotechnology have sought to translate policy commitments contained in international agreements on trade and biosafety into workable national policy. It is a complex story of selective interpretation, conflict over priorities and politicking at the highest levels of government.
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  Governing the grasslands of Western China

  Case Western Reserve University, 2003

  The paper begins by outlining Chinese grassland policy in the reform period and then describes key aspects of actual local level arrangements for grassland management. This description is based on the authors’ field studies at different sites on the Tibetan plateau (within Sichuan and Yunnan Province and the Tibetan Autonomous Region) and Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region1.
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  Protecting China's biodiversity

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This article argues that as China's new leaders begin to develop socioeconomic priorities, initiatives, policies and legislation, it is important for them to expand support for biodiversity conservation.The article proposes three strategies for improving biodiversity conservation:ensuring systematic planning and an adequate conceptual base for national biodiversity protection measures
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  Certifiably eco-friendly: is certification promoting sustainable forestry management?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Forest certification is all the rage, but is it having any impact? Who is benefiting from the ‘good wood’ trade? Is certification improving responsible business practice in forest product supply chains? Can the private sector and local stakeholders work to manage forests in ways that sustainably optimise social and environmental benefits?

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