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  Conflicts in Joint Forest Management: cases from South Rajasthan, India

  Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2003

  Joint Forest Management (JFM) has been an important step for improving amangement and governance of forests in India. However, conflicts and conflict resolution arrangements in the JFM framework are one area where there is urgent need for attention.
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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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  Capitalizing on conflict: how logging and mining contribute to environmental destruction in Burma

  EarthRights International, 2003

  This paper presents information illustrating how trade in timber, gems, and gold is financing violent conflict, including widespread and gross human rights abuses, in Burma.
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  Logs of war: the timber trade and armed conflict

  Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2002

  This report explores the relationship between the trade in timber and armed conflict.
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  Beyond Boundaries: Transboundary Natural Resource Management in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Biodiversity Support Programme, 2001

  This publicaiton provides an overview of the background and current status of Transboundary Natural Resource Management (TBNRM) initiatives.
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  Armed conflict and biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

  Biodiversity Support Programme, 2001

  In African countries, where poor rural populations are the majority and where the wealthy minority not only depends on resource extraction but also holds the political power, nature conservation is not a domestic priority. The larger the country the more patchy and incomplete the conservation effort is likely to be. Into this situation, add war and subtract government.
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  Overview of armed conflict and biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: impacts, mechanisms, and responses

  Biodiversity Support Programme, 2001

  This study contributes to an overview of the impacts of armed conflict on the environment that has been prepared by the Biodiversity Support Program’s Armed Conflict and the Environment project.The author first describes the various impacts and the mechanisms behind them, and then outlines a variety of responses to reduce or prevent these impacts.
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  Trade and forests: why forest issues require attention in trade negotiations

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper attempts to assess the impacts of trade negotiations on natural tropical forests, taking into account the context and regional dynamics both within and outside the forest sector.Findings:further liberalisation for agricultural products is likely to have a significant impact on forest areas, encouraging increased conversion to agricultural landWTO decisions on ecolabelling
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  Selling timber or nature? Reconciling forestry and tourism in Mexico

  E-review of Tourism Research, 2003

  This short paper describes research is based on a comparative case study of two communities in southern Mexico: Santa Catarina Ixtepeji and Santa Maria Yavesia in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca.
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  Forest Use and Soil Quality [Newsletter]

  European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2003

  The theme of this newsletter - forest use and soil quality - and particularly the effect of forest plantations on the soil - touches on the sustainable use of soil and water resources, biological diversity, and carbon sources and sinks.These links are explored in the introductory article.

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