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  Ethnic conflict, institutions and the tragedy of the commons: when human diversity hinders economic growth: empirical evidence from a sample of African countries

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper analyses the effect of ethnic conflict on economic growth.
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  The process of institution building to facilitate local biodiversity management

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002

  This paper examines theoretical approaches and practical experiences on local participation and the use of local institutions to improve biodiversity management.
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  Devolution as a threat to democratic decision-making in forestry?: findings from three states in India

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper looks at two interfacing trends shaping devolution of forest management in India: appropriation of space for forest management by diverse self-initiated community formations; and state-driven devolution where government policies define the scope of local authority in forest management.
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  Forests, people and rights

  Down to Earth: International Campaign for Ecological Justice in Indonesia, 2002

  This report details the status and history of forests and their ownership in Indonesia. It states that a huge amount of the country's forests have been destroyed and that rights and ownership have been handed to large companies and corrupt government friends.
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  Silver bullet or fool's gold?: a global review of markets for forest environmental services and their impact on the poor

  Forestry and Land Use Programme, IIED, 2002

  This report discusses the spreading phenomenon of markets for environmental services in the forestry sector.
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  Conserving the peace: resources, livelihoods and security

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2002

  This book developed from meetings between conservationists and those in the UK government concerned with security and conflict prevention.The book is based on the premise that environmental mismanagement and resource scarcity, alone or in conjunction with other forces, can have such a destabilizing impact on communities and societies that they may experience high levels of insecurity and even s
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  Community based fire management, land tenure and conflict: insights from Sumatra

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2001

  In response to the many highly damaging fires that have occurred in Indonesia, destroying large tracts of forest and causing high levels of damaging carbon emissions, community based management is often recommended as the answer to fire control.Traditional knowledge of fire and its management can be effective in managing both forests and fires, but, this paper argues, very little evaluation of
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  Global Environment Outlook 3 (GEO 3)

  Global Environment Outlook Report and Project, UNEP, 2002

  This high profile and detailed UNEP report is aimed at fulfilling the reporting requirement of Agenda 21.
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  The privatization process of rangeland and its impacts on pastoral dynamics in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya: the case of Western Sichuan, China

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 1999

  This article disucsses the effects of the last four decades of change in China in relation to traditional Tibetan pastoral production systems.
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  Branching out: Zimbabwe’s resource colonialism in Democratic Republic of Congo

  Global Witness, 2002

  This report focuses on the Zimbabwe government and military ambitions to exploit timber resources in the DRC. It highlights their role in a global corporate web which is taking advantage of conflict in the DRC to exploit natural resources.

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