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Paper tiger, hidden dragons 2: APRIL fools - The forest destruction, social conflict and financial crisis of Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd (APRIL), and the role of financial institutions and paper merchants
Friends of the Earth, 2002Latest report from Friends of the Earth's Coporates Campaign looking at linkages between financial institutions, pulp and paper manufaturers and paper merchants in forest destruction. The report focuses on the activities of Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Ltd (APRIL) - one of the worlds largest pulp and paper companies - and their subsidiary operations in Sumatra.DocumentManaging forests as common property
Forestry Department, FAO, 1998This comprehensive study brings together available information about the role of common property as a system of governance and its current relevance to forest management and use.A review of indigenous common property systems that have disappeared or survived, together with an examination of the experiences of selected contemporary collective management programmes in different countries, revealsDocumentCommunity-based animal health care in Somali areas of Africa: a review
Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1999This review is based on the question "are community-based animal health systems a realistic option for improving primary veterinary services in Somalia?"The article finds that:experience in Southern Sudan suggests that well-coordinated, large-scale community animal health worker (CAHW) systems can form the basis for improved service delivery in conflict zonesreviews of CAHW projectsDocumentAspects of resource conflict in semi-arid Africa
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999The present century has seen a significant real increase in resource conflict in semi-arid Africa. The most important causes of this are human population increase and the globalisation of the economy. Such conflicts reflect both point resources (mines, farms, reserves) and ecozonal conflicts (water, grazing and hunting rights).DocumentCommunity forestry and conflict management (FAO)
Forests, Trees and People Programme and Network, FAO - SLU, 1999DocumentRole of alternative conflict management in community forestry (FAO)
Forests, Trees and People Programme and Network, FAO - SLU, 1999DocumentThe evolution of central banking
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995What have we learned about central banks? The principal factors affecting central bank autonomy in the past two centuries have been prevailing political conditions, a laissez faire environment, and the exchange rate regime (whether fixed or floating).Institutions we know as central banks emerged or were established as commercial banks or government banks.DocumentEmergency Water Sources: Guidelines for selection and treatment (3rd Ed).
Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2004These guidelines have been designed to help those involved in the assessment of emergency water sources to collect relevant information in a systematic way, to use this information to select a source or sources and to determine the appropiate level of treatment required to make the water suitable for drinking.DocumentParticipation and Sustainability: Partners in Conflict?: The Case of the East Usambara Catchment Forestry Project (EUCFP), Tanzania
Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998Discusses the concepts of participation and sustainability and how we see them in the context of the EUCFPDocumentWho owns the ecosystem?
Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999Paper is about how human society organizes its proprietary relationship to the biosphere and, in particular, the property implications of ecosystem management. Our premise is that ecosystem management is endangered by its "bigger-is-better" bias, the potential source of public backlash among landowners.Pages