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  Structural characteristics of the economy of Mozambique: A SAM-based analysis

  Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998

  Key features of the Mozambican economy are synthesized in this paper based on a new 1995 social accounting matrix. Particular attention is paid to the critical role of home consumption and large marketing margins. The fundamental importance of agricultural development emerges clearly from a descriptive review and from structural path analyses.
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  Poverty and Environment: Turning the Poor into Agents of Environmental Regeneration

  Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998

  The poor adapt and learn to live with poverty in a variety of ways. They also try to cope with shocks from events such as droughts, floods and loss of employment. Environmental resources play a vital role in their survival strategies. As the poor depend on environmental resources, one can expect them to have a stake in their preservation. Much of the damage done to natural resources is by others.
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  India's Position on Climate Change from Rio to Kyoto: A Policy Analysis

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Policy-making analysis of actors, structures, ideas, interests and powers behind the Indian government’s national position on climate change.
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  Theoretical Aspects of Forest Accounting

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998

  Recent empirical studies have focused on national accounting issues related to forest resources, but none has systematically examined the issues from a theoretical perspective. Paper demonstrates that one should adjust the level of GDP upward for household consumption of nonmarket nontimber products and forest amenities.
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  Multiple Uses of Common Pool Resources in Semi-Arid West Africa: A Survey of Existing Practices and Options for Sustainable Resource Management

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Common pool resources such as rangeland, forests, fallow fields and ponds provide an array of social and economic benefits for a wide variety of users in semi-arid west Africa. However, poor definition and enforcement of the institutional arrangements governing the use of these resources sometimes lead to social conflicts and resource degradation.
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  Assessing the Need to Manage Conflict in Community-Based Natural Resource Projects

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Considers the role of ‘conflict management assessment’ in community-based natural resource projects. The importance of conducting an assessment of the potential for conflict and its management in relation to a project intervention is stressed, and an assessment framework described.
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  Participatory Biodiversity Conservation: Rethinking the Strategy in the Low Tourist Potential Areas of Tropical Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Converting international interest in biodiversity conservation into a positive development strategy represents a major challenge for governments and the donor community. While defensive strategies in line with the ‘fines and fences’ approach are now widely rejected, attempts to provide positive incentives through alternative income generating strategies have not proven very effective.
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  Biodiversity Conservation and its Opponents

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Arguments over biodiversity conservation continue to generate more heat than light. This paper reviews pro-conservation arguments, concluding that the main policy requirements are to improve the scientific basis of our understanding, and to popularise up-to-date knowledge among a wide audience.
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  Rural Poverty: Population Dynamics, Local Institutions and Access to Resources

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998

  Analyses two examples of changing institution-resource access relationships in Africa and Latin America. The Africa case (Kakamega, Western Kenya) highlights the resource endowments and problems associated with the participation of individuals in multiple institutions, whereas the Latin America case (Oaxaca, Mexico) focuses on the changes in a single institution in response to population growth.
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  Industrial Reliance on Biodiversity

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1997

  Overview of the extent to which industry in the developed world relies on the biodiversity of the developing world. Primitive human societies rely almost entirely on wild species for food, draught, building materials and other products, and such direct use continues in modern society.

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