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    Employment effects of ecological innovations: an empirical analysis

    Solothurn University, Switzerland, 2001
    Ecological innovations have increasingly been seen as a major response to environmental problems. An important question for both economic research and public policy is whether these innovations also increase employment or not (the question of a double dividend).
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    Webs of power: forest loss in Guinea

    Seminar [Indian journal], 2000
    Examines the contrast between the formulation of problems in development policy, and the perspectives of villagers in Kissidougou (Guinea) in relationship to 'demonstrably' false ideas about environmental change.
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    Forestry policy, non-timber forest products and the rural economy in the wet zone forests in Sri Lanka

    IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1999
    This study sought to:quantify and value the NTFP obtained from the forests by the local communitiesestimate the share of income from non-timber forest products (NTFP> to total household incomeassess how the formation of Forest Protection Committees in villages will affect the level of NTFP collection in the villagesand determine other non-economic functions of the forests that will
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    Econometric analysis of the causes of forest land use changes in Hainan, China

    IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2000
    Addresses the effects of economic, demographic and institutional factors on land allocation between forestry and other uses.
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    Environmental impact of refugees in Guinea (pre-assessment report)

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2000
    Report on the findings of the pre-assessment of the environmental impacts of the refugee situation in Guinea.Observations and conclusions:high population densities in the rural areas has resulted in high pressure on natural resources in southern Guinea.
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    Agroecosystems

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2000
    This study analyses quantitative and qualitative information and develops selected indicators of the condition of the world's agroecosystems. It assesses condition in terms of the delivery of a number of key goods and services valued by society: food, feed and fiber; water services; biodiversity; and carbon storage.
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    Arsenic crisis today: strategy for tomorrow

    Environment and Sustainable Development Programme, United Nations University, 2001
    This document presents ideas and concepts for ways to cope with the arsenic crisis first highlighted by the presence of arsenic in groundwater extracted from the alluvial aquifer underlying West Bengal and Bangladesh. The focus is on Bangladesh, but the findings may be applied to any other part of the world.
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    Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

    Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, 1998
    Review of the research literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th Century have produced no deleterious effects upon global weather, climate, or temperature. Increased carbon dioxide has, however, markedly increased plant growth rates.
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    Special report on emissions scenarios

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001
    In 1992 the IPCC released emission scenarios to be used for driving global circulation models to develop climate change scenarios. The so-called IS92 scenarios were pathbreaking. They were the first global scenarios to provide estimates for the full suite of greenhouse gases. Much has changed since then in our understanding of possible future greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
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    Aviation and global atmosphere

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001
    This Special Report was prepared following a request from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

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