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  Forecasting global biodiversity threats associated with human population growth

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  The size and growth of the human population are often cited as key factors in threats to Earth's biodiversity, yet the extent of their contribution to the endangerment and extinction of other species has remained unclear. These authors argue that it could be valuable to know what additional threats may arise from continued human population growth.
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  Biodiversity: its importance to human health

  Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School, 2002

  This is an interim report for a book of the same title to be published in late 2003 that is intended to be a scientific compilation of knowledge about how other species contribute to human health.The book is divided into 7 chapters, written by working groups of experts in those specific fields.
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  Animal health matters: improving the health of wild and domestic animals to enhance long-term development success in USAID-assisted countries

  Wildlife Conservation Society, 2003

  This paper addresses issues of health and disease transmission is wild animals. It offers selected examples of animal health issues in North America and applies the lessons learned to foreign assistance programs.
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  Environment guide and screening procedures

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This is a revised and updated version of DFID’s Environmental Guide. It provides advice on planning and managing the environmental appraisal of DFID interventions.
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  Adaptive learning: lessons from Southern Lao PDR

  Marine Resources Assessment Group, 2002

  These guidelines share the experiences of applying an ‘adaptive learning’ approach to the management of small waterbodies in Southern Lao PDR.Adaptive learning is a management approach that explicitly recognises that uncertainties exist and, instead of glossing over them, seeks to reduce them at the same time as managing the resource.
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  Valuing forests: a review of methods and applications in developing countries

  Environmental Economics Programme, IIED, 2003

  This report focuses on recent advances in the economic evaluation of forestry activities and, in particular, on how techniques for valuing non-timber forest benefits in monetary terms can assist the development of forest policy and management systems.The report presents the empirical literature which suggests that non-timber and non-market values of forests in developing countries are often sig
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  USAID's Global Conservation Program: Evaluation Report

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  Wide ranging evaluation of the Global Conservation Program (GCP) aimed at improving Implementation, collaboration and planning between the GCP partners. The GCP approach is to works through NGO partners to improve the management of globally significant habitats.
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  Traditional Knowedge and Intellectual Property: A Handbook on Issues and Options for Traditional Knowledge Holders in Protecting their Intellectual Property and Maintaining Biological Diversity.

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003

  This handbook is designed to make intellectual property protection issues and options more understandable to traditional knowledge holders, human rights organizations and legal professionals working with local and indigenous communities.Its goal is to help local communities understand and identify potential protection mechanisms already present in current intellectual property rights (IPRs) reg
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  Parks beyond Parks: Genuine community-based wildlife eco-tourism or just another loss of land for Maasai pastoralists in Kenya?

  Drylands Programme, IIED, 2002

  This paper provides an analysis of the Kenyan ‘Parks beyond parks’ programme which attempts to introduce a community based social component to their parks management policies by allowing locals to establish eco-tourism projects adjacent to parks.
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  To dig or not to dig? Criteria for determining the suitability or acceptability of mineral exploration, extraction and transport from ecological and social perspectives

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2002

  This paper describes criteria and indicators for helping to make decisions about the suitability of prospecting for, extracting, transporting, processing and disposing of oil and other minerals in sensitive environments.The paper proposes a decision tree consisting of three filters, focusing on:protection statuspotential threats to biodiversity and the environment at both the site a

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