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    IPCC WGI third assessment report: summary for policymakers

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001
    The Third Assessment Report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) builds upon past assessments and incorporates new results from the past five years of research on climate change.
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    Climate change science: an analysis of some key questions

    National Academy of Sciences [The National Academies], USA, 2001
    This review of climate-change science for the US Government confirms IPCC arguments: that greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth’s atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise. Temperatures are, in fact, rising.
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    The Economic Valuation of Tropical Forest Land Use Options: A Manual for Researchers

    IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1998
    Manual for researchers in Southeast Asia involved in the economic evaluation of tropical forest land use options. It was developed initially to serve as an aid to Cambodian researchers in the execution of an EEPSEA-financed study of non-timber forest values in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia.
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    Specially protected area management - towards a sustainable resource management and settlement development in Turkey

    The Authority for the Protection of Special Areas, [Ankara, Turkey], 2000
    This article deals with sustainable resource management and settlement development in Turkey.Conclusions:It is beneficial that there is, with regard to protected areas management in Turkey, one central administrative body, APSA the national agency, in charge of managing the all SPAs (Specially Protected Areas) in the territoryAPSA can establish and coordinate its own policies an
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    Carbon and forest management

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2001
    This manual is written as briefing for USAID natural resource and environmental program officers, as well as for their host-country counterparts and other colleagues working on issues related to forestry.The report has two main objectives:To synthesize existing information regarding the relationship between forest resources and carbon, as it relates to the issue of climate changeTo
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    Forest management systems in the uplands of Vietnam: social, economic and environmental perspectives

    IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2001
    Report of project aiming to assess and compare various forest management regimes against different socio-economic, environmental and institutional variables.
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    Damage schedules for Thai coastal areas: an alternative approach to assessing environmental values

    IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1998
    This study is an empirical test of the possibility of developing meaningful scales of relative importance that could be used to construct the damage schedules. The study aims at investigating people’s ability in providing consistent judgements about the importance of resource losses and activities in consideration.

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